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While it has always been overshadowed by the rarer Mercedes-Benz 540K Spezial Roadster, the Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet A is still regarded by many as the prettiest of the 540K siblings, with an outright win at the 1973 Pebble Beach Concours d’Eleganc… Continue reading Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet A takes 2021 Salon Privé “Best of Show”
When we first started keeping our listings of the most valuable cars and motorcycles sold at auction, a $3 million sale would land a spot in the top 100 most valuable cars ever sold at auction. Nowadays, a $5-million sale won’t get you into the top 100… Continue reading 2021 Monterey Auction Preview: The $5-million-plus cars
Elite motorcycle auctions have been few and far between outside the United States since COVID-19 came to visit, but the long-awaited Bonhams’ Three-day Summer Sale at the traditional venue of the Staffordshire County Showground will be held later this … Continue reading Bonhams’ Three-day Summer Motorcycle Sale preview
Everyone has heard of the AJS Porcupine – it’s the almost mythical world-beating British motorcycle that won the very first 500cc World Roadracing (now MotoGP) Championship in 1949. What you may not realize is that only four of the championship-winning… Continue reading AJS Porcupine could become one of the most expensive motorcycles in history
The collectible motorcycle marketplace snapped back into action again this month when Mecum belatedly wrapped up its annual January Las Vegas motorcycle auctions on May 1, 2021 following a four-day-sale that ran from April 28.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Harley-Davidson Knuckleheads rock the collectible motorcycle auction marketplace in Las Vegas
Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had a brief and highly illegal business manufacturing and selling phone phreaking gear prior to founding Apple computer in 1976. Now one of the original circuit boards hand-made by Wozniak for the first itera… Continue reading Rare Wozniak-Jobs “blue box” phone phreaking device could fetch $100,000
As we pointed out in our preview of the 2020 Petersen (Virtual Monterey) Car Week auctions, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is particularly relevant in the new reality of a COVID world: “the species that survives is the one that is able to adapt t… Continue reading 2020 Petersen (Virtual Monterey) Car Week On-line Auction Report
The pandemic is catalyzing rapid change in the way the world does business, and the 2020 cancellation of the world’s foremost automotive festival, Monterey Car Week, offers a tantalizing glimpse of what the new normal might look like for the world’s bi… Continue reading Virtual Monterey Car Week Auction Preview and guide to the good stuff
In the immediate post-WW2 period, Europe had been devastated by six years of total war, 85 million souls had perished, the economy of every European country was dysfunctional, every spare scrap of metal on the continent was either shaped like a weapon … Continue reading 500cc two-stroke sportscar expected to fetch $250,000+
The importance of the secondary motorcycle market was acknowledged this week when Kawasaki announced it has begun manufacturing reproduction cylinder heads for its milestone Z1 900cc motorcycle from the 1970s.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, Tran… Continue reading Kawasaki begins manufacturing reproduction Z1 cylinder heads