1925 Bugatti Type 39. Photo: Mike Jiggle There is something very special about a Bugatti, and this example is very special...
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Photo: www.howtobeagourmand.com RM Auctions has announced the addition of a new sale to its established roster of European events. The...
• The LeMay Museum, in Tacoma, Washington, is celebrating 50 years of the Ford Mustang with the June 14 opening...
Prior to the 1914 French Grand Prix, the ultimately successful Mercedes team lines up in preparation. Eventual winner Lautenschlager’s car is second from left.Photo: Daimler AG It was the race every manufacturer and driver wanted to win. Having created the Grand Prix de l‘Automobile Club de France in 1906, France...
The Automobiles sur les Champs series of sales has become a regular fixture in the auction calendar, having grown steadily...
The 15th Salon de l’Auto et de la Moto de Collection will take place October 10-11, 2015 at the Automédon...
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...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
At the 2016 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris next February 5-6, Artcurial Motorcars will offer a handful of significant...
The 2016 edition of Patrick Peter’s 25th Anniversary Tour Auto Optic 2000 will take place April 18-24 over a new route that will finish with a night stage on famous rally roads in the Côte d’Azur hinterland. On this occasion homage will be paid to the cars that have written...
The Association Vincennes en Anciennes will organize the 16th annual Traversee de Paris on January 10, 2016, the largest gathering...
A season-opening track day event for pre-1972 cars, the Coupes de Printemps, will take place Saturday April 2, 2016, on...
Highlighting RM Sotheby’s February 3 sale during the world-famous Retromobile show week in Paris will be a rare 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, chassis no. 550-0068, which was the original Frankfurt Motor Show car in 1955. The 550 Spyder is among the most iconic of all Porsche sports racing cars, based...
The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk Motor...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
Following in the tracks of last year’s successful inaugural event, the second edition of Les Grandes Heures Automobiles will be held September 24-25 at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry on the edge of Paris. More than 200 historic competition cars and motorcycles are expected to take part, with noted motor racing...
Artcurial Motorcars has announced that its Paris auction at the Retromobile Salon on February 10, 2017, will feature an important...
Artcurial Motorcars will close out its year in style on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday October 30...
Seventy-five desirable collector cars went under the hammer during last weekend’s 10th edition of Artcurial Motorcars’ Automobiles sur les Champs sale on Les Champs-Elysées in Paris. Sales totaled €3,855,673 ($4,202,684) from an 80-percent sell-through rate, with top price paid for a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 (above, Christian Martin photo courtesy of Artcurial Motorcars)...
Building upon the success of last year’s Les Grandes Heures Automobiles (LGHA), the dates for 2017’s third edition at the...
RM Sotheby’s has secured a private Swiss collection of 42 Porsches that will be auctioned “without reserve” across several of...
The 10th Summer Crossing of Paris will take place on Sunday July 30, bringing together 700 vehicles (cars, motorbikes, light utility vehicles, tractors, omnibuses, etc.) of all makes and from all periods to drive through the streets of the French capital. Organized by Vincennes en Anciennes, the largest multi-marque club...
A 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix car will cross the auction block with No Reserve at RM Sotheby’s upcoming...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man...
The annual Winter Crossing of Paris will take place on Sunday January 7, 2018, bringing together 700 vintage vehicles (cars, motorbikes, light utility vehicles, tractors, omnibuses, etc.) of all makes and from all periods to drive through the streets of the French capital. Organized by Vincennes en Anciennes, the largest...
A trio of rare classic sports cars will be among the many desirable cars crossing the block at RM Sotheby’s...
A 1953 Ferrari 166 MM Spider, chassis no. 0272 M, that contested the 1953 and 1954 Mille Miglia races before...
Groupe Renault displayed four historic endurance racing prototypes (above, photo courtesy of Renault) at this year’s Retromobile Show in Paris, February 7-11, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alpine’s overall win in the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. Not only was the winning prototype, Renault Alpine A442B, on...