The RM Auctions Hershey 2013 sale was held October 10–11 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, resulting in $9.6 million in total sales...
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The Mecum Auctions Chicago 2013 sale was held October 10-12 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois, resulting in $18,634,223...
Worldwide Auctioneers, National Auto and Truck Museum, Auburn, Indiana, August 31, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In an annual auction schedule that includes ever more events few locations, if any, have the ambiance and history of Worldwide’s Auburn Auction. Held in the Front Drive L-29 assembly...
The VI Artcurial Automobiles sur les Champs 2013 auction was held 20 October in Paris, resulting in €4.6 million in...
The inaugural RK Motors Collector Car Auctions (RKMCCA) will be held October 31st to November 3rd, 2013 at the Charlotte...
Christie’s is offering Andy Warhol’s Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Grand Prix Car at its upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art sale, scheduled for November 12, 2013 in New York City. This work of nearly fourteen feet tall, utilizing synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas, was produced for the Daimler Art...
The Harburg Collection of competition cars will be featured at the inaugural RM Auctions Paris sale, scheduled for 4-5 February...
The Mecum Anaheim 2013 auction will be held November 21-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Mecum’s second annual...
• A unique 1953 Ferrari 166MM, bodied by Oblin with wonderful racing provenance will star in Artcurial Motorcars’ Retromobile sale in Paris on February 7, 2014. The Ferrari, chassis 0300M, has extensive, successful racing history in Europe and South America, including finishing 3rd overall and 1st in class in the...
The RM Auctions Arizona 2014 sale will be held January 16-17 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, with approximately...
A 1929 Duesenberg Model J Dual Cowl Phaeton will be among the featured offerings at the 2014 Gooding & Company...
RM Auctions, Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 10-11, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Hershey, Pennsylvania in October ranges from tropical heat through rain forest deluges to near-Arctic cold. Those who have prior experience with the AACA’s Fall Hershey Meet, RM auction and swap meet know to bring multiple...
A motorcycle once owned and ridden by Steve McQueen will be among the headline offerings at the 2013 Mecum Anaheim...
The RM Auctions and Sotheby’s Art of the Automobile sale was held November 21, 2013 in New York City, resulting...
The RM Auctions and Sotheby’s Art of the Automobile sale and exhibition was staged November 18-21, 2013 in New York City. The first major collector car auction to be held in Manhattan in over a decade saw 31 automobiles and two motorcycles vehicles cross the auction block. With the auction...
RKM Classic Car Auction, Convention Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 1-2, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor...
A selection of post-war Mercedes-Benz will be among the featured offerings at the 2014 Gooding & Company Scottsdale Auction, to...
The Mecum Auctions Anaheim 2013 sale was held November 21-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, resulting in nearly $14 million in total sales and a 50.7% sell-through rate. Mecum originally anticipated a 750-car lineup for the 2013 Anaheim auction, but the final run total saw 812 vehicles crossing...
Chassis 5111GT sells for $52 million A Series I Ferrari 250 GTO (Chassis #5111), once owned by American collector Paul...
During RM Auctions’ two-day sale in London’s Battersea Park 120 exclusive collector cars sold for a spectacular $34,085,045.00, an impressive...
The Bonhams London New Bond Street 2013 Auction was held 1st December at Bonhams’ newly redesigned and refurbished London headquarters, resulting in £16.8 in total sales and an 83% sell-through rate. All eight cars in Dick Skipworth’s collection from the legendary Scottish Ecurie Ecosse team that won two consecutive Le...
RM Auctions at Sotheby’s ‘The Art of the Automobile’, New York, November 21, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey,...
A 1951 Ferrari 212 Export Touring Berlinetta and 1931 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Supercharged Gran Sport Spider are among the...
The Leake Auction Company Dallas 2013 sale was held November 22-24 at the Dallas Market Hall in Texas, resulting in $9.5 million in total sales and a 63% sell-through rate. The total from the three-day sale was up 29% from last year. “We could not be happier with the results...
A 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider will headline the 2014 RM Auctions Arizona sale, scheduled for January 16–17,...
Bonhams “Preserving the Automobile” Simeone Foundation Museum, Philadelphia, October 7, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In...
Mecum Auctions, Kansas City, Missouri December 5-7, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor The Mecum Auctions machine rolls through Kansas City twice a year. They had 695 cars cross the block in April. (See Full Report). How do they do that and still find 791 collector cars...
A 1997 McLaren F1 GTR Longtail will headline the 2014 Gooding & Company Scottsdale Auction, scheduled for January 17-18 at...
A selection of automobiles from the Malcolm Pray Collection will be among the headline offerings at the 2014 RM Auctions...
Hans Wurl is joining Gooding & Company as Automotive Specialist, joining Gooding’s team of specialists that includes David Brynan, Paul Hageman, Garth Hammers and David Gooding. Based in Seattle, Wurl has served as advisor to noted collectors and participated in collector car events around the world. David Gooding, President and...
