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Salon Privé is best known for its Concours d’Elégance, which is regarded as one of the most important such events on the planet, but over the 15 years since it began, it has grown into a week of automotive celebration that encompasses important car and… Continue reading Pictorial: Remarkable sights of the 2022 Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance
The original and sole remaining Blastech DL-44 Blaster used by Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the first 1977 Star Wars movie (Star Wars: A New Hope) has sold for a record US$1,057,500 at Rock Island Auctions.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Most Expensive Movie Weapons, star wars, Heritage Auctions, Profiles in History, Rock Island Auctions, Bonhams, Sotheby’s, James Bond, Star Trek
Continue reading Han Solo’s DL-44 Blaster from “Star Wars” smashes auction records
The 71st Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been run and won, with a 1932 Duesenberg J Figoni Sports Torpedo taking out the most prestigious concours event on the international calendar against one of the strongest fields ever assembled, with finalis… Continue reading Pictorial: 2022 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance & Monterey Car Week
Bugatti showed its final internal combustion engined car at “The Quail: a Motorsport Gathering” in Monterey today, dubbing it the W16 Mistral, and announcing that the entire production run of 99 vehicles is already sold out.Continue ReadingCategory: Au… Continue reading Bugatti’s new $5 million W16 Mistral roadster is already sold out
Monterey Car Week isn’t entirely about cars. The Monterey car auctions will see more than one third of a billion dollars spent in three days this year, but it is the sheer volume of High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs – people with $1 million in liquid a… Continue reading The top 10 motorcycles for sale in Monterey 2022
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione became the latest winner of the Annual Peninsula Classics “Best of the Best” Award yesterday, winning the 2021 edition of the most prestigious concours honor in the world.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Broad Arrow Auctions, Bonhams, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Hispano Suiza, Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, Amelia Island Concours, Concours dElegance, Salon Prive, The Quail, Pebble Beach
Continue reading Pictorial: World’s “Best of the Best” concours car, plus 8 finalists
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione became the latest winner of the Annual Peninsula Classics “Best of the Best” Award yesterday, winning the 2021 edition of the most prestigious concours honor in the world.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Broad Arrow Auctions, Bonhams, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Hispano Suiza, Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, Amelia Island Concours, Concours dElegance, Salon Prive, The Quail, Pebble Beach
Continue reading Pictorial: World’s “Best of the Best” concours car, plus 8 finalists
Monterey Car Week is upon us once more, and the auction cluster that provides a large part of the show at the week-long automotive celebration is shaping as the biggest in history.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Ferrari, Bentley, M… Continue reading Monterey Car Week 2022 Auction Preview: the $10 million cars
Sotheby’s sold the jacket worn to the Moon by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin yesterday, smashing all sorts of auction records with a final price of US$2,772,500.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Most-Expensive, Auction, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Heritage Auctions
Continue reading Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 jacket smashes auction records
Someone has scored a bargain at Heritage Auctions’ recent Historical Platinum Session Signature Auction and we’re quite astonished that in this age of information, such anomalies can still happen. On July 16, an extremely rare and historically importan… Continue reading Original 300-year-old Fahrenheit thermometer drops in value at auction