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The RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale will be staged 11-12 May at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The two-day, biennial...
Branson Spring Collector Car Auction, Branson Convention Center, Missouri, April 20-12, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Branson’s Leap Day EF3 tornado, just 7 weeks before the scheduled Spring Branson auction date, injected more than a little uncertainty into this year’s version of the Cox family’s semi-annual...
A 1938 Horch 853A Erdmann and Rossi Sport Cabriolet, Best of Show winner at the 2004 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance,...
Worldwide Auctioneers held its Houston Classic Auction 2012 on Saturday, May 5th at the La Torretta Lake Resort in Montgomery,...
The RM Auctions Monaco 2012 auction was held 11-12 May at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, resulting in more than €33,521,710 ($43,410,615 USD) in total sales and an 87% sell-through rate. Held during the same weekend as the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, the two-day RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale...
RM Auctions announced more featured offerings for the August 17–18, 2012 Monterey sale, a 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Berlinetta and...
The Monaco Historic Grand Prix 2012 was held 11-13 May on the 3.34 km Monaco Grand Prix Circuit. The biennial...
Mecum Auctions will offer collectors a piece (or two) of American racing history at the 2012 Monterey auction, scheduled for August 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in Monterey, California. The 4th annual sale will be headlined by STP Lotus Type 56/3 Turbine driven by Graham Hill at the...
The Celebration of Automobiles was held Saturday, May 12th, 2012 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. The second annual event...
Gooding & Company announced early featured consignments for the 2012 Pebble Beach auction, scheduled for August 18th and 19th in...
RM Auctions will offer the Dingman Collection during a multi-day sale, June 9-10, 2012 in Hampton, New Hampshire, 50 miles from Boston. The sale is a continuation of RM’s Dingman auction held in 2006. The collection is the result of many years of acquisition by Michael Dingman, a former Ford...
RM Auctions will offer ‘without reserve’ more than 150 vehicles from the Charlie Thomas Collection during a single-day auction, scheduled...
Mecum Auctions, Spring Classic, Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 15-20, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor...
Bonhams, Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, Greenwich, Connecticut, June 3, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In its fifth year at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance Bonhams achieved its highest sale total and strong mean and median transaction values and sell-through rate in a diverse auction with Rupert Banner on...
A pair of GT40s, including a 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight Racing Car, chassis P/1074, and an unrestored 1967 Ford...
The RM Auctions Dingman Collection 2012 auction was held June 9-10 in Hampton, New Hampshire, resulting in more than $9.88...
A 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Special Roadster will be among the featured offerings at the Gooding & Company Pebble Beach 2012 auction, scheduled for August 18th and 19th in Pebble Beach, California. Seventy-six years after leaving the factory, the “von Krieger Special Roadster” will be presented for public sale for...
A recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer will headline the Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2012 auction, scheduled for...
Mecum Auctions, Salmon Brothers Collection, North Little Rock, Arkansas, June 16, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor...
The Artcurial Motorcars Le Mans Classic auction will be staged Saturday 7th July 2012 at the Le Mans 24 Hours Circuit in France. Artcurial assembled a selection of 130 collector and competition motor cars for their 2012 Le Mans Classic auction, with 70% of the lots offered at no reserve....
The Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 auction was held 29th June on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House in...
• At H&H auctions, April 9 Duxford Sale, the UK auction house managed a near record price for a 1970...
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A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Tour de France joins the many other featured Ferraris at the 2012 RM...
Gooding & Company will feature a quartet of motorsport legends at their 2012 Pebble Beach auction, to be held August...
Leake Auction Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 8-10, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor The Leake Auction Company continued its 40th Anniversary year with its annual Tulsa auction at the Expo Center, a 10-acre clear span structure sponsored by Quick Trip, those “QT” signed fuel and replenishment centers...
Barrett-Jackson, Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, California, June 22-24, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In its...
The Artcurial Motorcars Le Mans Classic auction was held Saturday 7th July 2012 at the Le Mans 24 Hours Circuit...
Bonhams, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Chichester, Sussex, June 12, 2012 Report by Rick Carey | Photos courtesy of Bonhams Bonhams sold $34.9 million at its Goodwood Festival of Speed auction. It would have been handily over $35 million at last year’s more robust £/US$ exchange rate. In the overall scheme...
