The RM Sotheby’s Monterey 2016 auction was held August 19-20 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey,...
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.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2016 was held Sunday, August 21st in Pebble Beach, California. More than 200 automotive treasures...
The Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion 2016 was held August 13-14 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California, the weekend prior to the much larger Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. With approximately 300 historic race cars at this year’s event, the weekend gave fans a great way to preview and enjoy the...
The Mecum Monterey 2016 auction was held August 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in Monterey, California, resulting in...
The Russo and Steele Monterey 2016 auction was held August 18-20 in downtown Monterey, California, resulting in $10.9 million in...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance returned to the fairways of the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California on Sunday, August 21, 2016. Delahayes were featured in great numbers this year, along with Chapron Coachwork, Bizzarrini, Lamborghini Miura and Two-Man Indianapolis Race Cars from 1930–1937. Special classes celebrated the 50th anniversary...
Samuel Clemens is best quoted noting, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” So, too are reports of the...
By Hagerty At the macro level, there were few surprises at the 2016 Monterey Car Week. We predicted that overall...
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley, California, August 19, 2016 The total sale may be off from 2013’s $107.5 million blockbuster 2-day sale including the Maranello Rosso collection (and, not incidentally, the 250 GTO s/n 3851GT’s $38.1 million price) and 2014’s strong performance of $44.3 million but 2016 marked a highly...
RM Sotheby’s, Portola Plaza, Monterey, California, August 19-20, 2016 2016 posed some problems for RM Sotheby’s. The Convention Center where...
Gooding and Company, Pebble Beach, California, August 20-21, 2016 The collector car market as a whole is getting pretty rich...
The Pebble Beach Concours caps off the eventful Monterey Classic Car Week filled with a grand display of the finest collector cars in the world, all riding on four tires. To that end, Tennessee-based Coker Tire reports that half of the field of 205 entries at the 2016 Concours were...
At the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday 21 August 2016, FIVA (the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) awarded its...
Mecum Auctions, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, California, August 18-20, 2016 To appreciate what Mecum Auctions represents during the auction orgy on...
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...
Russo and Steele, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California, August 18-20, 2016 2016 is only the second time Russo and Steele’s Monterey...
The spectators at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance were treated to some truly exceptional sights on and off the...
This photo gallery features my 150 favorite images from the 2016 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Unlike my previous report published August 23rd, these galleries are not race reports — they are images I find exciting. One of the highlights of the 2016 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion was shooting the Scarab...
Charities were a big winner again at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, as this year’s event raised more than...
One-off Ferrari Speciales and Jaguars with Custom Coachwork will be among the featured marques at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours...
Formula Juniors will be among the 14 historic race car classes featured at the 2017 Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17-20 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. Returning to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion for the first time since 2013 are the Formula Juniors that ran between...
Formula One racing driver Jenson Button will get behind the wheel of Emerson Fittipaldi’s 1974 Formula One World Championship-winning McLaren...
The Quail Motorsports Gathering 2017 will be held Friday, August 18th at the Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel, California...
The 2017 Gooding and Company Pebble Beach auctions will move up a day from its traditional dates on the Saturday and Sunday of Pebble Beach Concours Week. This year’s auctions will now be held on Friday, August 18 and Saturday, August 19, with the preview days staged on Wednesday, August...
A 1963 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Competition Coupe will be offered at the 2017 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, scheduled for Friday,...
On November 10, 1957, the checkered flag waved on the first race at the all-new Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey,...
Dates for the 2018 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have been moved one week later from their traditional third weekend to August 23-26. The move was prompted by the 2018 United States Amateur Golf Championship returning to the Pebble Beach Golf Links the week prior. “We coordinate closely with the Pebble...
The Pebble Beach Concours 2018 will take place on Sunday, August 26, 2018. The one-time move from the third to...
A pair of Mercedes-Benz 300 SL models from single family ownership will be offered at the 2017 Gooding and Company...
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...
