Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Mecum in the Middle (Middle America, That Is, i.e., Des Moines, Iowa,...
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The 2011 Russo and Steele Monterey Sports and Muscle auction will be held August 18-20 at the Marriott Hotel in...
Call them what you want–Monterey Car Week, Pebble Beach Automotive Week, Concours Week, Holy Car Week or simply Car Heaven–but the events held each August around the Monterey Peninsula are easily among the most important in the classic car world each and every year. And 2011 is no different. Anchored...
RM Auctions will hold its 2011 Sports and Classics of Monterey auction on August 19th and 20th at the Portola...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will be held Saturday, August 20th and Sunday, August, 21st at the...
A sculpture featuring Ayrton Senna’s McLaren MP4/6 from his last season as Formula One World Champion is to be sold by Coys at their Nurburgring sale in Germany on August 13, 2011. The gigantic Airfix sculpture was recently unveiled to the public at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire when Coys hosted...
Bonhams announced two headline consignments for its upcoming Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia auction at the Goodwood Revival Meeting on...
Report and photos by Rick Carey RM Auctions, Inn at St. John’s, Plymouth, Michigan, July 30, 2011 Meadow Brook is...
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...
RM Auctions held its Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s sale on July 30, 2011 in Plymouth, Michigan, resulting...
By Will Silk When conversing about American premium luxury automobile manufacturers, no conversation would be complete without the mention of Packard;...
Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed Auction Report – July 1, 2011 Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Goodwood is good for Bonhams … and the other way ‘round. With 95 cars crossing the block and 84 sold, Bonhams turned in a stellar 88.4% sale rate and $11,635,152 in total transactions....
A collection of significant Mercedes-Benz will be offered at the upcoming RM Auctions Monterey auction. The two-day Monterey sale, scheduled...
Silverstone Auctions held its inaugural sale of classic road and competition cars on 23 July, 2011, the Saturday of the...
RM Auctions will offer the Milhous Collection during a multi-day private sale, scheduled for February 2012 near Palm Beach, Florida. Featuring a collection of automobiles, mechanical musical instruments and collectibles, the sale will be presented in association with Sotheby’s with whom RM Auctions has collaborated in the past. “RM is...
Gooding & Company announced that the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype (s/n 0666 TR) and the 1963 Shelby Cobra...
The Dana Point Concours d’Elegance 2011 was held June 24-26 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana Point,...
Gooding & Company will feature five coachbuilt Ferraris at its 2011 Pebble Beach Auctions, scheduled for August 20-21 in Pebble Beach, California. The bespoke Ferraris span the first 15 years of Ferrari’s production history, with each premiering as show models at Europe’s leading motor shows: 1950 Ferrari 195 Inter by...
A selection of Porsche race cars will be featured at the 14th annual Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, held August 18-19,...
Bonhams staged their annual Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on 1 July, 2011 on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House...
Mecum Auctions held its annual Bloomington Gold Corvette auction on June 24-25, 2011, in St. Charles, Illinois, resulting in total gross sales (excluding buyer’s premium) of $5.8 million. Headlining the Mecum Bloomington Gold Corvette auction 2011 was a collection of 23 Black Corvettes ranging from 1954-1969 with at least one...
The Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 auction will be held 1 July on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House...
RM Auctions staged its inaugural sale at the Salon Prive Concours d’Elegance on 23 June, 2011 at Syon Park in...
Bonhams will hold an auction comprised entirely of BMW produced and powered automobiles, motorcycles and related automobilia on October 1, 2011 at the BMW Museum in Munich. The Power by BMW sale represents the first BMW only event since the successful 100% sold auction by Bonhams of the Willy Neutkens...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will feature the oldest surviving production Bentley in existence, Chassis 3, in...
Star consignments for the RM Auctions Monterey 2011 sale are beginning to surface, headlined by the matching-numbers 1955 Ferrari 750...
RM Auctions will hold its inaugural sale at the Salon Prive Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for 23 June, 2011 at Syon Park in London. The Salon Prive auction, which is only open to British-built automobiles, has attracted 57 English cars, including multiple Aston Martin, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce automobiles. Max Girardo, Managing...
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Following last year’s two-day Houston auction featuring the R.E. Monical and Buess...
By Will Silk This edition of Classic Cars for Sale comes from the pages of a 1965 dealer catalog that...
Mecum Auctions held its 24th Annual Original Spring Classic Auction, May 17-22, 2011, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, resulting in more than $50 million in total sales and an 80% sell-through rate. “We are proud of the excitement shown by collectors, enthusiasts and spectators participating in our Spring...
