I get back from an outta-town trip and this is the first thing I see in my inbox. Full press release:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – January 9, 2008 – Officials with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. LLC, today announced that a settlement was reached on Jan. 7, 2008, in a suit filed against David L. Clabuesch in U.S. […]
So RM and Sotheby’s Ferrari extravaganza is behind us…let’s have a Day of Rolls-Royce.
At Gooding & Co.’s sale on August 19th at Pebble Beach, they’re going to offer the Silver Ghost collection of Richard J. Solove. This is far from being just another rich guy cashing in on the collector car market; just the […]
Continuing with 1953 from yesterday, today’s car is a Touring-bodied 1953 Ferrari 340 MM Competition Spyder. It’s the only surviving example, he ex-Giuseppe Farina 1953 Mille Miglia factory entry.
SPECS:
Chassis No. 0268 AM
Engine No. 0268 AM
300hp 4,101cc single overhead camshaft V-12 with three four-barrel Weber 40DCF/3 carburetors, single-plug ignition with dual Marelli magnetos, four-speed manual […]
On May 20, RM and Sotheby’s are launching themselves together into a bold new realm, with a joint auction at Ferrari in Maranello. For RM, it’s their first foray into the heated and highly-competitive European auction scene; for Sotheby’s, we think it probably helps them get more access to the US—while they’ve had a car […]
There’s a huge slate of auctions this June, and no way I could fit everything in. I was really hoping that this one for Christie’s sale at Greenwich would run, but it didn’t. There’s also a great sale of Henry Seagrave memorabilia from Bonham’s that deserves a mention, and while I’m at it, here’s your […]
History is one thing when you’ve read it in a book. It’s another thing when you’re staring it down, as I did the car above last year at the Michael Dingman auction in New Hampshire (where it sold for $220,000, BTW). I hadn’t read this article before the auction, though I probably should have. Regardless, […]
A recent post by Matt of the Hurst SC/Rambler Registry on the AMC Forums touched off a brief game of one-upsmanship: Who has photos of the sorriest looking junkyard SC/Rambler? Matt started with the one above…
…followed by this one from Hurst390…
…followed by this one from the forum member that goes by the simple handle of […]
To recap, after the long hulabaloo about Christie’s withdrawal of their 1938/39 Type D from auction in February, the saga of authenticating it and the questions that devolved from that, the venerable South Kensington auction house decided to sell the car via sealed bidding.
After tallying the results yesterday, they came to their conclusion: None […]
Los cholo locos at tha Jalop’ are having some fun with our bud Bruce Weiner’s “Whattadrag” Chevy 502-powered Isetta, and we’re lovers of all things microcar around here, too.
Whattadrag is often confused with the “Urkel Dragster,” but it ain’t the same car. In fact, we last saw the Isetta Roketta in Branson a year and […]
I must admit that I was a bit sad to find the Morehead family’s 80-mile original 1967 122S wagon for sale on ebay this morning- it seems like the end of an era.
The sale of the old Newburgh, New York bank that had functioned as storage for roughly ten of the family’s collectible cars is […]
Soon, we will have an answer. An answer that will get us through the coming months, that will bring us aid and succor in our dark times, our times of desperation and hunger: How much does Barry Gibb’s celebrity provenance add to the selling price of a Countach?
Yes, thanks to the epochal efforts of Coys, […]
I’ve been looking for this photo for months, and it finally surfaced just recently. To tell the truth, I had absolutely no good reason to be looking for it save to post it here, and after discovering the Beast, it just seemed natural that this would turn up. Back in ‘05, just after LaChance started […]
Be patient, we have one editor on the ground in Scottsdale now and three more on their way tomorrow, so look for up-to-the-minute coverage on some of the hottest Arizona auction action here shortly.
In the meantime, browse our auction archive and check out some coverage from last year’s Scottsdale happenings, including the $4 million Futurliner, […]