Among the great car events during “Monterey Car Week,” The Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance is my favorite. It’s a wonderful...
Monterey Car Week
Monterey Car Week is the mecca for car fans. It is a packed, full week in August of automotive heaven held in and around Monterey, California. The highlight for serious collectors is the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the pinnacle event in the classic car world. The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is a four-day event that has over 500 participants driving historic race cars. The Jet Center Party is all about exotic cars and private jets, while the Legends of the Autobahn is all about German cars. The Auctions happen throughout the event, and usually include auction houses such as Bonhams, RM Auctions, Russo and Steele, Gooding & Company, Mecum Auctions, Broad Arrow Group, and historically popular names such as Rick Cole Auctions.
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Tour de France joins the many other featured Ferraris at the 2012 RM...
The Mecum Monterey 2016 auction was held August 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in Monterey, California, resulting in more than $50 million in total sales. With 704 classic and collector cars offered at the three-day sale, this year’s total surpassed the prior year by more than $5 million....
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2010 paid tribute to all that is Alfa Romeo, celebrating the centennial of the Italian...
RM Auctions, Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center, Monterey, California, August 16-17, 2013 Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick...
The Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance 2017 was held Thursday, August 17th, starting and ending at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble Beach, California. The 20th annual picturesque trip around the Monterey Peninsula was open to vehicles participating in the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on August 20th. This year...
The German marque BMW will be featured at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2016, scheduled for August 18-21 at Mazda...
The Quail Motorsports Gathering 2018 was held Friday, August 24th at the Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel Valley, California....
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2017 was held August 17-20 at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Enthusiasts savored four fantastic days of historic racing at the iconic track, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. A cornerstone of Monterey Classic Car Week, the Reunion...
The Mullin Automotive Museum will unveil the virtually completed coachbuild of Jean Bugatti’s 1939 Bugatti Type 64 Coupe Chassis #64002...
Formula One racing driver Jenson Button will get behind the wheel of Emerson Fittipaldi’s 1974 Formula One World Championship-winning McLaren...
The Cars of Briggs Cunningham were a featured class at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held August 16th at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. This spectacular assemblage of Cunningham cars included competition cars and the Vignale-built sports cars. An American entrepreneur, sportsman, race car constructor, driver and...
The Gooding and Company Pebble Beach Auction 2011 will be held Saturday, August 20th and Sunday, August, 21st at the...
Carmel-by-the-Sea once again hosted Concours on the Avenue along its famous Ocean Avenue. The event showcased an amazing variety of...
The famed Monterey Classic Car Week really gets going in earnest with the annual running of the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance. Held annually since 1998 to showcase the elegance of the automobile in motion, the Tour underscores the early history of Pebble Beach. The 2017 Pebble Beach Tour featured 155...
For one week each August, the Monterey Peninsula in California is transformed into the epicenter for the classic car community....
The Maserati brothers of Bologna founded their racing car manufacturing company in 1926. The company was pure-bred, real racers building...
The Mullin Automotive Museum shared its collection during the 2016 Monterey Car Week with the crowds at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Quail Motorsports Gathering, McCall’s Motorworks Reunion and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. This year the Mullin brought eight road and race cars from its collection, all of which...
The 2012 edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance raised more than $1.2 million for local charities, the seventh year...
The Bonhams Quail Lodge Auction 2012 was held August 16-17 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, resulting in total...
The headline North American celebration of Ferrari’s 70th anniversary will be held at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for August 17-20 at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. “This will be an historic celebration of Ferrari, bringing its seventy years of engineering, style and passion to life...
After a good day of practice and showing off the sights and sounds of some classic race cars during Day...
The Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion 2017 was held August 12-13 at the 11-turn, 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California....
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...
The Ferrari 250 Gran Turismo Omologato (GTO) needs little introduction as the most iconic, most habitable, street-useable, race-winning, World Championship-winning...
The Concorso Italiano 2011 was held Friday, August 19th at the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch in Monterey, California. Celebrating its...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 will celebrate the racing heritage of one of Britain’s legendary motor car companies – Jaguar. Few companies are as synonymous with sports car racing as Jaguar, and the reunion will highlight the 50th anniversary of the iconic Jaguar E-Type and 60th anniversary of the...
The Concorso Italiano 2013 was held Friday, August 16th on the fairways of the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch in Monterey,...
Report and photos by Dennis Gray The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2013 was held August 15-18 at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn...
Star consignments for the RM Auctions Monterey 2011 sale are beginning to surface, headlined by the matching-numbers 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Scaglietti Spider, s/n 0492M. The Monza is one of at least 20 Ferraris that will be offered at RM’s annual Monterey sale, scheduled for August 19-20, 2011 at the...
