One of the crown jewels of Carroll Shelby’s personal collection, this 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra, CSX3178, was owned by Carroll...
Mecum Auctions
Mecum calls themselves “The World’s Largest Collector Car Auctions” and if you have ever been to any of their events you can see why. Mecum Auctions is a known leader in live auctions of collector and classic cars, antique motorcycles, vintage tractors and Road Art memorabilia with events across the US. Catch previews of their upcoming auctions and highlights from those past in our coverage.
Mecum Auctions’ first-ever Denver-area auction held June 26-27, saw 396 cars sell for a total of $12,003,418. The sale was...
• Classic Motor Cars Ltd., a successful classic car restoration company in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK, which last year turned over £5.2 million, has been given to the staff by its owner. CMC employs more than 60 staff and has restored some of the world’s most important cars including many famous...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance celebrated 66 years of charitable giving by distributing more than $1.7 million in donations from...
• The 27th edition of the Tour Auto Optic 2000 will be held from April 23 to 28, 2018. Every...
• The Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance honored Carroll Shelby for his racing contributions and Edsel Ford for his involvement in the family business with Lifetime Achievement Awards at a gala dinner held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club on February 25, 2012. (FL) • Proof that real auction action...
• The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance has announced that David Schultz of Massillon, Ohio, has been named the new Chief...
• The annual International Historic Motoring Awards, in association with EFG International, has announced that the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance...
• RM Auctions’ February 18–19, Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale generated more than $9.1 million with 100 percent of all lots sold. Numerous microcar records were set including: a 1958 F.M.R. Tg 500 “Tiger” fetching $322,000, a world record price for a microcar sold at auction; a 1951 Reyonnah selling...
• A unique 1953 Ferrari 166MM, bodied by Oblin with wonderful racing provenance will star in Artcurial Motorcars’ Retromobile sale...
Just three and a half years after the first Shelby Cobra emerged from a rented shop in Venice, California, Carroll...
The Ed Foss Low-Mileage Corvette Collection will be featured at the Mecum Monterey 2015 auction, scheduled for August 13-15 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in California during Monterey Classic Car Week. The Collection includes 26 of some of the lowest-mileage and most original examples of America’s sports car in...
Mecum Auctions’ 2016 Kissimmee sale, set for January 15-24 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, will offer more that...
This 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible was the first Corvette produced with the RPO L88 option package. The only Tuxedo Black...
Mecum Auctions topped its previous year’s sale, yet again, with a 38-percent increase in total sales at its 10th annual Daytime Auction held in Monterey, California. With quality, rarity and diversity punctuating the vast Mecum lineup, the 2018 auction hurdled past last year’s totals as overall sales reached an impressive...
Mecum Auctions will celebrate its 30th anniversary at its original Spring Classic Auction in Indianapolis from May 16-21, where some...
The 2016 Mecum Kissimmee auction will be staged January 15-24 at the 60-acre Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida. Next...
Mecum Auctions will be offering the E.J. Cole Collection at auction this March 20-21, 2015, at the South Point Casino and Exhibit Hall in Las Vegas. Representing 50 years of collecting what any motorcycle enthusiast would consider American Treasure, the collection comprises more than 220 motorcycles and is considered by many...
The 1965 Lola T70 spider raced by Jerry Grant to victory in the 1966 Bridgehampton USRRC race will be offered...
Mecum Auction announces the unique 1963 Harley Earl Chevrolet Corvette Convertible will cross the block during the Bloomington Gold Corvette...
Virtually unbeatable in competition and on the road, Ferrari racing cars—long before they were ever considered multimillion-dollar collectibles—were workhorses simply intended to win races and prove engineering advancements. Raced to their limits and subject to the many hazards of the track, they lived hard lives and were often modified and...
Mecum Auctions has announced that it will be selling the ex-works McLaren M20-01 that was driven by Peter Revson, the...
Mecum Auctions has announced that the famed Corvette Z06 known as “Gulf One”, will be offered for sale at its...
Today, at Mecum Auctions’ Kissimmee Florida sale, the famed 1968 Ford Mustang GT that featured in the Steve McQueen movie “Bullitt” sold for a stunning hammer price of $3.4 million. One of just two Mustangs used to fill the role in the 1968 action/thriller “Bullitt,” named after main character Lt....
At some point in his time collecting, it occurred to Todd Werner that there was a reason the cars he...
A selection of Ferraris will be among the headline offerings at the 2015 Mecum Monterey auction, to be held August...
A selection of important race cars will be among the headline offerings at the 2013 Mecum Monterey Auction, scheduled for August 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa on Del Monte Golf Course in Monterey, California. With 750 collector cars expected to cross the auction block, highlights will...
Mecum Auctions will offer collectors a piece (or two) of American racing history at the 2012 Monterey auction, scheduled for...
A selection of Porsches will be among the headline offerings at the Mecum Kissimmee 2015 auction, scheduled for January 16-25...
A Le Mans-winning 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB TdF will headline the second annual Mecum Monterey Auction, August 13-14, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort in California. Driven by Jean Blaton and Leon Dernier, the Ferrari 250 GT – serial number 1321 – won 1st place in its GT...
