Mecum Auctions held its annual Bloomington Gold Corvette auction on June 24-25, 2011, in St. Charles, Illinois, resulting in total...
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Bonhams staged their annual Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on 1 July, 2011 on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House...
A selection of Porsche race cars will be featured at the 14th annual Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, held August 18-19, 2011 in Carmel, California. Last year at Quail Lodge Bonhams set a world record for any Porsche sold at auction when the 1972 917 Interserie Spyder (1970 Gulf-JWA Le Mans...
Gooding & Company will feature five coachbuilt Ferraris at its 2011 Pebble Beach Auctions, scheduled for August 20-21 in Pebble...
The Dana Point Concours d’Elegance 2011 was held June 24-26 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana Point,...
Gooding & Company announced that the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype (s/n 0666 TR) and the 1963 Shelby Cobra 289 Factory Team Car (s/n CSX2129) will be offered at auction at their upcoming Pebble Beach Auctions on August 20-21, 2011. “Being in the presence of the 1957 Ferrari Testa...
RM Auctions will offer the Milhous Collection during a multi-day private sale, scheduled for February 2012 near Palm Beach, Florida....
Silverstone Auctions held its inaugural sale of classic road and competition cars on 23 July, 2011, the Saturday of the...
A collection of significant Mercedes-Benz will be offered at the upcoming RM Auctions Monterey auction. The two-day Monterey sale, scheduled August 19 – 20, 2011, will present 13 examples from the German marque, spanning over 80 years of production. The headline consignment is a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster,...
Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed Auction Report – July 1, 2011 Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Goodwood is good...
RM Auctions held its Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s sale on July 30, 2011 in Plymouth, Michigan, resulting...
Bonhams will hold its 14th annual Monterey Week auction at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California. The two-day sale will take place on Thursday and Friday, August 18-19, 2011. The 2011 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, held in connection with The Quail, A Motorsport Gathering, will feature approximately 130 cars and...
Report and photos by Rick Carey RM Auctions, Inn at St. John’s, Plymouth, Michigan, July 30, 2011 Meadow Brook is...
Bonhams announced two headline consignments for its upcoming Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia auction at the Goodwood Revival Meeting on...
A sculpture featuring Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/6 from his last season as Formula One World Champion is to be sold by Coys at their Nurburgring sale in Germany on August 13, 2011. The gigantic Airfix sculpture was recently unveiled to the public at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire when Coys hosted...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will be held Saturday, August 20th and Sunday, August, 21st at the...
RM Auctions will hold its 2011 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 19th and 20th at the Portola...
Call them what you want–Monterey Car Week, Pebble Beach Automotive Week, Concours Week, Holy Car Week or simply Car Heaven–but the events held each August around the Monterey Peninsula are easily among the most important in the classic car world each and every year. And 2011 is no different. Anchored...
The 2011 Russo and Steele Monterey Sports and Muscle auction will be held August 18-20 at the Marriott Hotel in...
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Mecum in the Middle (Middle America, That Is, i.e., Des Moines, Iowa,...
Worldwide Auctioneers will hold their annual Auburn Auction on September 2-4, 2011 at the Worldwide Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana. The three-day Labor day weekend event is headlined by the consignments offered at the Saturday evening Main Event catalog sale, including a 1912 Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost and 1965...
RM Auctions held its 2011 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 19-20 at the Portola Hotel in Monterey,...
Bonhams held its 2011 Quail Lodge auction on August 18-19 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, resulting in $11...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 was held August 20-21 at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble Beach, California. Gooding’s 7th annual auction, again held in association with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, saw total sales of $78.18 million and an 84% sell-through rate. The two-day sale...
Mecum Auctions held their third annual Monterey Auction on August 18-20, 2011 at the Del Monte Golf Course in Monterey...
The Russo and Steele Monterey 2011 auction was held August 18-20 at the Marriott Hotel in Monterey, California, resulting in...
Bonhams will throw their hat into the Arizona Auction Week ring in 2012, joining RM Auctions, Gooding and Company, Barrett-Jackson, Russo and Steele and others. The new Bonhams auction will be held January 19th, 2012 at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bonhams announced early consignments for...
A barn-find Delahaye has been consigned to the Worldwide Auburn Labor Day Auction, scheduled for September 2-4, 2011 at the...
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Mecum is the newcomer to the Monterey auction scene. They secured the...
The Lee Roy Hartung Collection will be offered for sale by Auctions America by RM in partnership with RM Auctions during a multi-day sale in Glenview, Illinois, November 3-5, 2011. The Hartung Collection was amassed over five decades by the late Mr. Lee Roy Hartung for display in his private...
