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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
In a year where COVID-19 has prevented many auctions from going ahead and stopped many people from attending in person even when they did go ahead, the success of Gooding & Company’s “Passion of a Lifetime” auction at Hampton Court Palace on the weeken… Continue reading Gooding & Co “Passion of a Lifetime” auction sets multiple world records
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
Ten-million-dollar automobiles are few and far between: just 48 automobiles have sold for more than US$10 million since the barrier was first breached on 17 May 2009 when a Ferrari Testa Rossa sold for $12.4 million in Italy. So far this year, there ha… Continue reading Three $10-million-plus cars heading to auction at Concours of Elegance
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
Cars that can win a major international concours event always have a story to tell, though it is indeed rare that the two “best in show” cars have stories that are as extraordinary as the winners of the 25th Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance.Continue R… Continue reading Pictorial: 25th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance
Now firmly entrenched behind only Pebble Beach as the largest single collectible car celebration in America, Amelia Island is a concours event of the highest order, and in the monied environs of America’s retiree Capital of Florida, one of the three la… Continue reading The million dollar cars: 2020 Amelia Island collectible car auctions
The customized Myers Manx dune buggy in which Steve McQueen took Faye Dunaway on a full-noise drive in the sand dunes in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair, is heading to auction. The VW Beetle-based buggy was customized for the film with a 230-hp Chevy Corvair flat-six, and the restored original movie car will go to auction at Bonhams’ Amelia Island auction in March, 2020.
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Continue Reading Steve McQueen’s “Thomas Crown Affair” Dune Buggy heads for auction
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Continue reading Steve McQueen's "Thomas Crown Affair" Dune Buggy heads for auction
Monterey Car Week is the epicenter of the world collectible car industry. It’s where all the big boys come to play. Whilst racing was the initial center of gravity for Monterey Car week, the Pebble Beach Concours turned from curtain raiser to… Continue reading Monterey Car Week Auction Preview: The top 40 most valuable cars
Monterey Car Week is where the world’s most monied automotive enthusiasts congregate once a year, and as many car enthusiasts share a similar passion for motorcycles, there’s always a smattering of elite motorcycles spread across the six auct… Continue reading 16 bikes likely to sell for more than $100,000 in Monterey