The race that started it all at Laguna Seca was an upset of sorts. With big-name drivers like Carroll Shelby,...
Monterey Car Week
Monterey Car Week is the mecca for car fans. It is a packed, full week in August of automotive heaven held in and around Monterey, California. The highlight for serious collectors is the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the pinnacle event in the classic car world. The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is a four-day event that has over 500 participants driving historic race cars. The Jet Center Party is all about exotic cars and private jets, while the Legends of the Autobahn is all about German cars. The Auctions happen throughout the event, and usually include auction houses such as Bonhams, RM Auctions, Russo and Steele, Gooding & Company, Mecum Auctions, Broad Arrow Group, and historically popular names such as Rick Cole Auctions.
A lineup of Italian sports cars will be among the headline offerings at the 2017 Gooding Pebble Beach auction, scheduled...
A 1995 McLaren F1, chassis 044, will be among the headline offerings at the 2017 Bonhams Quail Lodge sale, to be held Friday, August 18th in California during the Monterey Classic Car Week. Chassis 044 is the first McLaren F1 imported into the United States and the first of only...
A trio of Ferrari models are among the headline offerings at the 2017 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, to be held...
The last of four Abarth 205 competition chassis to be constructed, this 1953 Abarth 1100 Sport is the only example...
A 1956 Aston Martin DBR1 chassis number 1 will be among headline entries at the 2017 RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, scheduled for August 18-19 during the Monterey Classic Car Week. The DBR1 was the result of David Brown’s dream to win Le Mans, a victory achieved by DBR1/1’s sister car...
A 1970 Porsche 917K will headline the Gooding and Company Pebble Beach 2017 Auction, scheduled for August 18-19 during the...
The headline North American celebration of Ferrari’s 70th anniversary will be held at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled...
A pair of Mercedes-Benz 300 SL models from single family ownership will be offered at the 2017 Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction, scheduled for August 18-19 during the Monterey Classic Car Week. The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing and the 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster are presented with limited...
The Pebble Beach Concours 2018 will take place on Sunday, August 26, 2018. The one-time move from the third to...
Dates for the 2018 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have been moved one week later from their traditional third weekend to...
On November 10, 1957, the checkered flag waved on the first race at the all-new Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the track’s heritage will be celebrated at the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17-20 during Monterey Classic Car Week. Bill Patterson’s...
A 1963 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Competition Coupe will be offered at the 2017 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, scheduled for Friday,...
The 2017 Gooding and Company Pebble Beach auctions will move up a day from its traditional dates on the Saturday...
The Quail Motorsports Gathering 2017 will be held Friday, August 18th at the Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel, California during Monterey Classic Car Week. More than 250 automobiles and motorcycles will be displayed in a garden-party setting at the 15th annual Quail. This year’s display will have a special...
Formula One racing driver Jenson Button will get behind the wheel of Emerson Fittipaldi’s 1974 Formula One World Championship-winning McLaren...
Formula Juniors will be among the 14 historic race car classes featured at the 2017 Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for...
One-off Ferrari Speciales and Jaguars with Custom Coachwork will be among the featured marques at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for August 20th in California during Monterey Car Week. Applications for entry are due January 9, with competitors expected to learn their fate by April. In the intervening...
Charities were a big winner again at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, as this year’s event raised more than...
This photo gallery features my 150 favorite images from the 2016 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Unlike my previous report published...
The spectators at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance were treated to some truly exceptional sights on and off the show field at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. From a Panhard et Levassor Type B1 that won the 1901 New York to Buffalo endurance race to a pair of Le...
Russo and Steele, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California, August 18-20, 2016 2016 is only the second time Russo and Steele’s Monterey...
The Mullin Automotive Museum shared its collection during the 2016 Monterey Car Week with the crowds at the Pebble Beach...
Mecum Auctions, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, California, August 18-20, 2016 To appreciate what Mecum Auctions represents during the auction orgy on the Monterey peninsula consider that a dozen years ago in 2004 the entire collector car auction total, Christie’s, Bonhams, RM and Russo and Steele, was just over $47 million. The...
At the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday 21 August 2016, FIVA (the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) awarded its...
The Pebble Beach Concours caps off the eventful Monterey Classic Car Week filled with a grand display of the finest...
Gooding and Company, Pebble Beach, California, August 20-21, 2016 The collector car market as a whole is getting pretty rich with consignments, and sales, skewing toward more and more toward the rich end of the continuum. That is nowhere more clear than at The Pebble Beach Auction. 29 lots had...
RM Sotheby’s, Portola Plaza, Monterey, California, August 19-20, 2016 2016 posed some problems for RM Sotheby’s. The Convention Center where...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 19, 2016 The total sale may be off from 2013’s $107.5 million blockbuster...
By Hagerty At the macro level, there were few surprises at the 2016 Monterey Car Week. We predicted that overall numbers would be down for the second year in a row (they were); and we said that the best of the best would sell for good money and that OK...
