The 13th Traversée de Paris (Summer Crossing of Paris) will take place on Sunday August 30, bringing together 600 vehicles (cars,...
The 19th winter running of the Traversée de Paris (Crossing of Paris) will take place on Sunday January 13th, bringing together...
Automobiles sur les Champs, the annual Parisian collector car auction by Artcurial Motorcars, returns to La plus belle avenue du monde on Sunday April 8, 2018. For this 12th edition of the sale, Artcurial Motorcars will present 80 vehicles, two-thirds of which will cross the block at no reserve. Alongside...
Groupe Renault displayed four historic endurance racing prototypes (above, photo courtesy of Renault) at this year’s Retromobile Show in Paris,...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
At the 2016 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris next February 5-6, Artcurial Motorcars will offer a handful of significant...
Seventy-five desirable collector cars went under the hammer during last weekend’s 10th edition of Artcurial Motorcars’ Automobiles sur les Champs sale on...
The Artcurial Motorcars sale is an annual fixture of the Retromobile classic car show in Paris, and one of the most important collector car auctions in the world. February’s 2015 sale was the largest ever held in continental Europe, realizing €48M / $52M. It starred the extraordinary Baillon Collection, the...
Artcurial Motorcars will close out its year in style on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday October 30...
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The 15th Salon de l’Auto et de la Moto de Collection will take place October 10-11, 2015 at the Automédon Show at Parc des Expositions at Paris-Le Bourget. This year, the Yves Levasseur-organized show is focusing on Competition and Heritage, concentrating not on cars from museums, but from private collectors....
Automédon is staging its 18th vintage car and motorbike show from Saturday October 13th to Sunday October 14th, 2018, at...
The Automobiles sur les Champs series of sales has become a regular fixture in the auction calendar, having grown steadily...
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With snow falling on the streets of Paris, collectors and enthusiasts arrived for the annual Retromobile Salon’s official auction, Retromobile...
RM Sotheby’s recorded a sale total of €23,745,225 ($29,562,805) at its fifth annual Paris sale on February 7, with an...
Bugatti entered a team of four, 8-cylinder Type 30s for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg. Clothed in an aerodynamic body, these new Bugattis quickly earned the nickname “Le Cigar.” It was a successful debut for the car, as from 18 starters only four cars finished the race with...
A 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix car will cross the auction block with No Reserve at RM Sotheby’s upcoming...
A trio of rare classic sports cars will be among the many desirable cars crossing the block at RM Sotheby’s upcoming Rétromobile sale in Paris, February 7. Headlining the offerings is an exceptionally rare long-nose, alloy-bodied 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB. (above, Scott Pattenden photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s). Fresh from...
• The LeMay Museum, in Tacoma, Washington, is celebrating 50 years of the Ford Mustang with the June 14 opening...
• Paris’ famed Retromobile automobile exhibition has announced that its next event, February 6–10, 2013, will pay tribute to the...
A season-opening track day event for pre-1972 cars, the Coupes de Printemps, will take place Saturday April 2, 2016, on the glorious Montlhéry Autodrome, near Paris. It is expected to draw some 100 historic motorcars in three groupings to enjoy the 3.4-kilometer track’s spectacular banking and its three chicanes. Each...
The Association Vincennes en Anciennes will organize the 16th annual Traversee de Paris on January 10, 2016, the largest gathering...
Artcurial Motorcars has announced that its Paris auction at the Retromobile Salon on February 10, 2017, will feature an important...
No way did Elisabeth Junek look like a racing driver. She was, well, a woman to begin with, and there were not many of them hefting potent racing cars around in the 1920s. And she was petite, her fair hair framing a kind, gently smiling face. Even when she raced...
The BBC recently screened a documentary on the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Pierre Bouillon’s car was launched into the air...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has passed away at the remarkable age of 95. As outlined in his obituary on page 12, Fitch’s life read like some kind of wild adventure novel melding Indiana Jones, Captain...