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Auctions America will offer the Terry Bennett Collection during a two-day sale, September 21-22, 2012 in Rollinsford, New Hampshire. The...
The Auctions America by RM Auburn Fall 2012 sale was held August 30th to September 2nd at Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana, resulting in more than $18.5 million in total sales and a 76% sell-through rate. Held during the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, the third annual Auburn Fall Collector...
An ex-works Bugatti Type 54 will headline the Bonhams Paris 2013 auction held 7th February during Retromobile week. Next year’s...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 17, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Bonhams moved its...
Russo and Steele, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California, August 17-19, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Russo and Steele finally completed its long-awaited move from the Marriott’s dark, low ceiling, loud, sweaty upstairs ballroom to a new location in a series of tents on Monterey’s Fisherman’s Wharf parking...
Mecum Auctions held their 2nd annual Dallas, Texas auction on September 5-8, 2012 at the Dallas Convention Center, resulting in...
An alloy-bodied 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing will be among the headline consignments for the RM Auctions London 2012 sale, scheduled...
The Bonhams Goodwood Revival Auction 2012 was held Saturday 15th September at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester, UK, resulting in total sales of £13.6 million and an 84% sell-through rate. Top result at the 2012 Bonhams Goodwood Revival Sale went to the unrestored supercharged Mercedes Type S that lay...
The Worldwide Auctioneers Auburn Auction 2012 was held August 31st to September 1st at the National Auto and Truck Museum...
RM Auctions will offer the John Staluppi ‘Cars of Dreams’ Collection on December 1st, 2012 in West Palm Beach, Florida....
The Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction 2012 was held September 20-22 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, resulting in more than $23 million in total sales. More than 68,000 car enthusiasts attended the 5th annual Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas sale, representing over a 10% increase from the...
Even after almost 40 years of following Formula One, I’m amazed that there are still aspects of the sport that...
The RM Auctions Hershey 2012 sale will be held October 11–12 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, held during the AACA Eastern Regional...
Gooding and Company Pebble Beach, Equestrian Center, Pebble Beach, California, August 18-19, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor $113,736,600 sold in just two days, with just 123 cars offered and 110 sold, an 89.4% sale rate and average transaction value of just over $1 million; $1,033,969 to...
Auctions America by RM, Auburn Fall, Auburn, Indiana, August 30-September 2, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor...
Mecum Auctions will stage their top fall auction event on October 25-27, 2012, at the Pheasant Run Resort in St....
The Dan Kruse Austin Hill Country Classic Car Auction 2012 was held Saturday, September 15th at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas, resulting in more than $2.89 million in total sales. More than 150 cars were on offer the first year the Hill Country Classic sale was held in...
Auctions America by RM, Dr. Terry Bennett Collection, Rollinsford, NY, September 21-22, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction...
Bonhams ‘Preserving the Automobile’ Auction, Simeone Museum, Philadelphia, PA, October 8, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor...
Bonhams will offer at auction the Patrick Collection on Monday 3rd December at Mercedes-Benz World Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. This Patrick Collection Part III sale is the third installment of a wider collection of cars covering 100 years of motoring housed in a private museum in Birmingham. Bonhams sold...
Worldwide Auctioneers, The Auburn Auction, Auburn, Indiana, August 31 – September 1, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction...
The Auctions America Fall Carlisle 2012 sale was held October 4–5 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, resulting in more than $2.5 million...
RM Auctions will offer at no reserve the Charlie Thomas Collection on October 20th, 2012 at the Gaylord Texan near Dallas, Texas. The product of two decades of acquisition by Texas businessman, life-long auto enthusiast and former owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team, Charlie Thomas, the “Texas-sized” collection features...
The RM Auctions Hershey 2012 sale was held October 11–12 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, resulting in more than $10.7 million in...
A 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible will be among the Salon Collection offerings when Barrett-Jackson returns to Arizona for their...
The RM Auctions London 2012 sale will be held 31st October at Battersea Evolution in central London. The 6th annual London auction will see more than 90 automobiles and motorcycles go under the hammer during the single-day sale, headlined by the 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Tour de France; alloy-bodied...
The Branson Collector Car Fall Auction, Branson, Missouri, October 12-13, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor 2012...
The RM Auctions Charlie Thomas Collection sale was held October 20th, 2012 at the Gaylord Texan near Dallas, Texas, resulting...
The Mecum Auctions St. Charles 2012 sale was held on October 25-27 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois, resulting in more than $12 million in total sales and a 60% sell-through rate. Chicagoland’s only collector car auction, the Mecum 2012 Fall Premier sale a diverse selection of...
