A 1968 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 NART Spider will headline the 2016 RM Sotheby’s Monaco sale, scheduled for May 14 at...
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The Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction 2012 was held September 20-22 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas,...
The Bonhams Aston Martin 2015 auction was held Saturday 9th May at Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell, UK, resulting in £10,280,275 in total sales. The largest auction in Bonhams 16-year history at Aston Martin Works, the sale featured more than 50 motor cars and 170 lots of automobilia, with...
Barrett-Jackson, WestWorld, Scottsdale, Arizona, The Pratte Collection Tuesday, January 13, 2015 This is a brief ‘heads-up’ on the Tuesday group...
The RM Auctions Auburn Spring 2018 sale was held May 11-12 at the Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana, resulting...
In early December, Miles Morris and Malcolm Welford, guiding lights in Christie’s Auction House’s U.S. motoring department, announced that they were leaving the company to form their own historic car consultation and brokerage company. According to Morris, “We plan to specialize at the high end of the marketplace and already...
A selection of custom American automobiles will be among the featured consignments at the 2013 RM Auctions Art of the...
Mecum’s annual Kansas City Auction will feature 500 collector cars and memorabilia up for bid on December 4-5, 2009. The...
Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach Auction 2010 will be held Saturday, August 14th and Sunday, August, 15th at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble Beach, California. Gooding & Company’s 6th annual auction, held in association with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, will feature 135 cars, including 17 estimated to...
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Okay, so I like alliteration, but that headline is no stretch at all in...
A Bugatti Type 49 Roadster with coachwork by Labourdette is among the early consignments for the 2017 Bonhams Greenwich auction,...
Russo and Steele, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 15-19, 2015 Showmanship is an essential element in the collector car auction business. Every auction company practices it, each with its own style. No one practices it with more style and flair than Russo and Steele where Drew Alcazar has elevated auction company showmanship...
It has been a good 14 years since Bonhams was at Gstaad Palace, and recently they made a very successful...
The RM Sotheby’s Guyton Collection auction was held May 4-5, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri, resulting in $11,680,537 in total...
A 1966 Shelby GT350 untouched for 40 years will be offered at the Bonhams Greenwich 2016 auction, scheduled for Sunday, June 5th at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, Connecticut. When new, this Shelby GT350 was used as a demonstration and competition car by the Ford dealership in Framingham, Massachusetts....
RM Auctions, Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona, January 15-16, 2015 Top grossing auction (of less than three days’ duration) in Scottsdale:...
The RM Sotheby’s Monterey 2016 auction was held August 19-20 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey,...
A 1953 Jaguar C-Type Works Lightweight, chassis number XKC 052, will be among the headline offerings at the 2015 RM Monterey auction, to be held August 13–15 in California during Monterey Classic Car Week. XKC 052 is the first ever offering of a Works Lightweight example at public auction. The...
Mecum Auctions, The Reliant Center, Houston, Texas, April 10-12, 2014 Mecum hasn’t been coming to Houston for very long but...
The RM Auctions Auburn Fall 2019 sale was held August 19 to September 1 at the Auburn Auction Park in...
While long known for record sales of muscle cars and hot rods, this past January’s annual Scottsdale, Arizona auctions also saw strong hammer prices for historic racecars. At the Russo and Steele Sports and Muscle in Scottsdale Collector Car Auction, a wild bidding frenzy arose for a 1963 Shelby Factory...
Mecum Auctions held its 24th Annual Original Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis,...
Gooding & Company have recently advertised that its yearly Scottsdale Auction will be conducted completely on its Geared Online platform....
2021 Mecum Glendale Records $42.3 Million in Sales with a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Coupe achieving the top sale price of $2.7 million. The 2021 Mecum Glendale Auction was held on March 18-20, achieved a sales total of 42.3 million in overall sales, a record-high for its Glendale, Arizona, auction. This...
Worldwide Auctioneers, The Auburn Auction, Auburn, Indiana, August 31 – September 1, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction...
Auctions America by RM, Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 16-18, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey,...
The Auctions America Fall Carlisle 2012 sale was held October 4–5 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, resulting in more than $2.5 million in sales and 57% of all lots sold. Held as part of Carlisle Events’ Fall Carlisle Collector Car Weekend, the two-day Auctions America by RM sale presented approximately 300 automobiles...
The unique 1961 Cadillac ‘Jacqueline’ Coupe, which was created by the Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina in honour of America’s First Lady,...
Gooding and Company, Fashion Square, Scottsdale, Arizona January 16-17, 2015 Gooding and Company first made its appearance in Scottsdale in...
The Gooding Scottsdale 2017 auction was held January 20-21 nearby the Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale, Arizona, resulting in more than $33.4 million in total sales and an 84 percent sell-through rate. President David Gooding and Auctioneer Charlie Ross sold 106 of 126 lots at Gooding’s 10th annual Arizona Auction...
