RM Auctions announced more featured offerings for the August 17–18, 2012 Monterey sale, a 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Berlinetta and...
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Dragone Brothers, Westport, Connecticut, May 30, 2015 It would be inaccurate to say that Manny and George Dragone have been...
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...
Gooding & Company announced that the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype (s/n 0666 TR) and the 1963 Shelby Cobra...
Bonhams MPH sale to feature a restored 1930 Austin Heavy Twelve Open Tourer Deluxe owned for numerous years by comedy...
Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor RM Auctions held its 2010 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 12th to 14th at the Portola Hotel and Spa and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, California. For the second year RM extended its Sports & Classics of...
Auctions America by RM, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 14-16, 2014 Many auctions seem to be struggling for quality consignments, probably...
A Porsche 904 GTS and Ferrari 275 GTB are among early consignments for the 2017 Bonhams Scottsdale auction, scheduled for...
RM Auctions, Portola Plaza, Monterey, California, August 19-20, 2011 Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor RM Auctions pulled off an unprecedented feat at Monterey in 2011, selling five eight-cylinder supercharged Mercedes-Benzes in a single night. They weren’t mundane cars, either – if the term “mundane” can...
Gooding and Company, Pebble Beach, California, August 20-21, 2016 The collector car market as a whole is getting pretty rich...
RM Sotheby’s 2021 Arizona Auction records a 90% sell-through rate and exceeds $35 million in sales RM Sotheby’s started their 2021...
The Auctions America Auburn Spring 2016 sale was held May 5-7 at the Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana, resulting in $7,187,439 in total sales and an 80 percent sell-through rate of all lots sold. The results represent a 40 percent increase over 2015. Bidders hailed from 36 states across...
Early consignments to the 25th annual RM Auctions Sports & Classics of Monterey event, held August 13–14, 2010 in California,...
The Mecum Auctions Original Spring Classic 2014 sale will be staged May 13-18 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis....
The 1913 5-litre Bugatti Type 18 Sports Two-Seater known as “Black Bess” and widely regarded as the most important Type 18 in existence will star in Bonhams’ Retromobile sale in Paris on February 7th, 2009. With continuous history from new, this Bugatti has the most extraordinary provenance and in 95...
The Reventlow Automobiles Inc.’s (RAI) Scarab Grand Prix single-seaters were the first, home-grown, all-American team of Formula 1 racing cars....
Leake Auction Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 17-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Oklahoma City kicked...
Russo and Steele will effectively double their auction schedule in 2013 with the addition of new events in Newport Beach, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Drew Alcazar, owner of Russo and Steele, said, “Both Scottsdale and Monterey have matured to what we feel exemplifies the Russo and Steele experience....
Mecum Auctions held its annual Bloomington Gold Corvette auction on June 24-25, 2011, in St. Charles, Illinois, resulting in total...
Bonhams held their annual Collectors Motor Cars and Automobilia auction on Friday, July 3rd at the Goodwood Festival of Speed....
The Milton Robson Collection of muscle cars and classics will be sold at auction by RM Auctions, to be held in Gainesville, Georgia on Saturday, November 13, 2010. Well-known by automotive enthusiasts, the Robson Collection is the result of over 25 years of careful and meticulous acquisition by lifelong enthusiast...
Worldwide Auctioneers, The Auburn Auction, Auburn, Indiana, August 31 – September 1, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction...
The inaugural Bonhams Scottsdale auction was staged January 19th, 2012 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, resulting in...
The Mecum Denver 2016 auction was staged July 8-9 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, resulting in more than $11 million in total sales and a 66 percent sell-through rate. A total of 402 classic and collector cars sold at Mecum Auctions’ second annual Denver-area event. The top...
A 1970 Porsche 911S formerly owned by Steve McQueen, and featured in his Hollywood film Le Mans, will be offered...
The Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach 2017 auction was held April 6-8 at the South Florida Fairgrounds in Palm Beach, Florida, resulting...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by Tony Brooks, are to be the centerpiece of the memorabilia section of the Bonhams Auction at the Goodwood Revival, in September. Since that historic day, when Moss took the checkered...
The Worldwide Scottsdale 2019 auction was held Wednesday, January 16th in Scottsdale during Arizona Auction Week, resulting in nearly $10...
2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button’s fully restored 1970 Ford Bronco was sold on the Collecting Cars auction platform...
A 1997 McLaren F1 GTR Longtail will headline the 2014 Gooding & Company Scottsdale Auction, scheduled for January 17-18 at the Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale, Arizona. The sale starts at 11 a.m. each day. David Gooding, President and founder of Gooding & Company, said, “We have a celebrated history...
