A 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB Competitizione Clienti will be offered at auction for the first time in the automobile’s nearly...
Auctions America by RM, Auburn Spring, Auburn, Indiana, May 8-10, 2014 Auburn Spring has never been like this, a $19...
• RM Auctions posted its most successful Amelia Island sale to date, generating $35,947,500 of total sales, with 97 percent of all lots sold. Top lot of the sale was the late Malcolm Pray’s 1937 Delahaye 135 Competition Court Torpedo Roadster selling for a world auction record $6,600,000. • The...
The 1964 Ford GT40 lightweight prototype (chassis GT/104) that finished 3rd in the 1965 24 Hours of Daytona, has sold...
The Mecum Auctions Original Spring Classic 2014 sale was held May 13-18 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, resulting...
Mecum Auctions, The Reliant Center, Houston, Texas, April 10-12, 2014 Mecum hasn’t been coming to Houston for very long but already they’ve made themselves known. Mecum’s Houston auction was capped by the $7 million hammer ($7,560,000 with commission) sale of Ford GT prototype GT/104, a car that – if comparison...
A 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster Prototype, chassis GT/108, will be among the headline offerings at the 2014 RM Auctions Monterey...
The Auctions America Auburn Spring 2014 sale was held May 8-10 at the Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana, resulting...
Artcurial Motorcars returns as the official collectors car auction of Le Mans Classic 2014, scheduled for Saturday 5 July at the Le Mans circuit in France. For one weekend every second year, Le Mans comes to life with a race over 24 hours that celebrates the circuit’s legendary history. Around...
The RM Auctions Monaco 2014 sale was held 10 May at Le Sporting in Monaco, resulting in €41,355,430 in total...
The Mecum Auctions Original Spring Classic 2014 sale will be staged May 13-18 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis....
A 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 delivered new to Steve McQueen will headline the 2014 RM Auctions Monterey sale, scheduled for August 15-16 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in California. Finished in a shade of metallic gold called Nocciola, the Ferrari 275 GTB/4 on offer, chassis 10621, was...
Creating a replacement for the hugely successful 250 series of Ferraris was a daunting task for the engineers at Maranello....
The Mecum Kansas City 2014 Auction was held April 24-26 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri,...
The RM Auctions Monaco 2014 sale will be staged 9-10 May at Le Sporting on the Côte d’Azur in Monaco. More than 80 collector cars with an emphasis on historic competition will be featured at the single-day, biennial RM Monaco auction held the same weekend as the Monaco Historic Grand...
Auctions America by RM, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 14-16, 2014 Many auctions seem to be struggling for quality consignments, probably...
The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum in Utah purchased the 1964 Ford GT40 chassis P-104 that sold for $7,000,000...
Mecum Auctions, Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida, January 17-26, 2014 By my count 2,743 vehicles, by far most of them automobiles, crossed the Mecum Auctions auction block in Kissimmee, Florida during its nine-day run January 17-26, 2014 (nine days since only ‘Road Art’ was offered on Monday.) It is a...
The Mecum Houston 2014 Auction was held April 10-12 at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas, resulting in $33,633,058 in...
The Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Auction 2014 was held April 11-14 at the South Florida Fairgrounds in Palm Beach, Florida, resulting...
In early 1956, Tony Parravano, a wealthy American housing developer, commissioned Maserati to build a new large-bore V-8 for use in a Kurtis Indy chassis. The order offered Maserati the chance to develop the V-8 project, coded Tipo 54, which had been shelved since the disastrous Le Mans accident of...
Artcurial, Briest-Poulain-F. Tajan, Retromobile, Paris, February 7-8, 2014 The signature auction at Retromobile, February’s big car collecting show in Paris,...
RM Auctions, Place Vauban, Paris, France, February 5, 2014 RM Auctions joined the fray during Paris Retromobile week this year,...
Bonhams, Grand Palais, Paris, France, February 6, 2014 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor There are just a few particularly charismatic places to hold collector car auctions. Worldwide’s auction in the Cord Front Drive L29 Assembly Building in Auburn is one. Bonhams at the Grand Palais, site of...
The RM Auctions Monaco 2014 sale will be held 9-10 May at Le Sporting on the Côte d’Azur in Monaco....
Gooding & Company, Omni Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida, March 7, 2014 Bitter cold didn’t do much to deter...
RM Auctions, Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida, March 8, 2014 Highlighted by the disposition of Greenwich, Connecticut’s Malcolm S. Pray, Jr. collection, RM Auctions hit a home run at Amelia Island this year, recording a record total sale for the sixteen years they’re been at Amelia Island of $35.9 million,...
Aside from escaping this particularly bitter New England winter for a few days, getting to experience the solid week of...
The Gooding & Company Amelia Island 2014 auction was held Friday, March 7 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort...
The RM Auctions Amelia Island Concours 2014 sale was held March 8th on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Amelia Island, Florida, resulting in $35,947,500 in total sales and a 97% sell-through rate. The result is a 34% increase over 2013, with bidders from 18 countries and 20% representing...
