Mecum Auctions returns to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, September 6-9 with an estimated 1,000 American...
Mecum Auctions has announced that more than 50 cars from the Academy of Art University museum will cross the Las...
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) conducts competitions all across the USA for its members and in 2017 more than 3,500 cars, trucks and motorcycles were shown. The task of choosing just one of these to represent the best car in the club for the past year—the so called...
The 13th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place Sunday April 9 under sunny skies on the Concours lawn at...
In 1954, Southern California designer Bill Miller, designed a low slung, custom sports car for himself using Packard V12 running...
VR: It was recently announced that you have been chosen to be the chief judge for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance starting with next year’s event. I would imagine that—in classic car world terms—this has to be somewhat similar to being selected from the dean of cardinals to be made...
The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance has broken new ground – with fresh beginnings on the historic grounds of the Fort McPherson...
RM Sotheby’s is set to bring 170 motorcars to its single-day Santa Monica auction in the California seaside city’s historic...
We had spent the previous evening at Justin Marshall and his wife Shirley’s spectacular hilltop home overlooking their winery in Paso Robles, California. It was a warm beautiful summer night. We sipped a bit of Marshall’s award-winning wine, took in the incomparable view with the Pacific Ocean in the distance,...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at...
Following its “Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione” single-marque sale in Maranello, Italy, RM Sotheby’s is turning focus to another segment of the collector car hobby; important American Brass, Classic and post-War automobiles, at the top antique car enthusiast gathering of the year — Hershey. Set for October 5-6, during the...
Photo: David Gooley I know the engine is running only when I rev it. I pull the gearshift lever into...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
With a shiver of trepidation, I slip behind the wheel of the museum’s grand 1936 Packard phaeton Standard Eight parade car. I’m nervous because its original owner would have had me shot— if I were lucky —for getting anywhere near it. You see, Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, more commonly known...
Photo: David Gooley A 1934 Packard 1108 Twelve Dietrich Convertible Victoria owned by Joseph and Margie Cassini III of West...
On Saturday June 24 at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization will bring together families...
Joe Conzonire eases his 1903 Packard Model F Runabout out of his shop and pulls it into the sunlight. It is as dazzling and intricate as a tsarist Russian Fabergé egg. I behold a symphony of polished brass, lacquered wood, tufted leather and Jules Vern Victorian machinery. Its regal, opulent,...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will...
It was possibly the greatest automotive marketing slogan ever – “Ask the Man Who Owns One.” Packards were such high...
RM Auctions returned to Florida last weekend, April 6-7, for the company’s 16th annual Fort Lauderdale sale, where a total of $19.1 million in total sales was achieved, with a strong 76 percent sell-through rate. The total tops the sale’s 2017 performance, notably with a smaller, higher-quality offering of 335...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival and Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for October 31 and November 1 at the...
A 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow from the from Thomas F. Derro Collection of American Classics topped all sellers at RM Sotheby’s 11th Hershey Sale in conjunction with the AACA Fall Meet at Hershey Lodge in the Pennsylvania city. The auction registered $15,932,802 in total sales with an incredible sell-through rate...
Leake Auction Company will host its annual three-day spring auction at Dallas Market Hall in Dallas, Texas, next weekend, April...
Each October, all roads lead to Hershey, where RM Auctions will again present a selection of American Veteran, Brass, Classic,...
The 38th annual Concours d’Elegance of America (formerly the Meadowbrook Concours) crowned a pair of classic automobiles as its dual Best of Show winners on the last Sunday of July at the Inn at St. John in Plymouth, Michigan. The Best of Show – American award was presented to Joseph...
The Concours of Elegance – famed for gathering together the rarest cars ever created – will showcase seven of the world’s...
Mecum Auctions will host the Chicagoland area’s only annual collector-car auction on the weekend of October 5-7 when Mecum Chicago...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy of the Lost Tracks series at thechicaneblog.com, you can enjoy more clips of road racing action from the sport’s earlier days on the historic circuits of Torrey Pines, Pomona, Riverside,...
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