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Featured Offerings at 2013 Gooding Pebble Beach Auction

A line-up of Italian sports and racing cars will be featured at the 2013 Gooding & Company Pebble Beach auction, scheduled for August 17th and 18th in Pebble Beach, California. Among the auction highlights include a 1948 Alfa Romeo 6C Competizione 2500 from the “Sleeping Beauties” collection, a 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB Long Nose Alloy [...]

Mecum Original Spring Classic 2013 – Auction Report

Mecum Auctions, Original Spring Classic, State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 14-19, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It is amazing how many collector cars (maybe better characterized as ‘collectible cars’) keep coming out of the woodwork to auctions across the country. Nowhere is that better reflected than in the marathon sessions orchestrated [...]

RM Auctions Monterey 2013 – Featured Offerings

A selection of sports and racing cars are the latest featured consignments for the 2013 RM Auctions Monterey sale, scheduled for August 16-17 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in California. Among the more than 100 motor cars on offer, RM’s flagship two-day Monterey auction will feature a 1955 Jaguar D-Type, 1955 Ferrari [...]

Artcurial Paris Sur Les Champs 2013 – Auction Results

The Artcurial Automobiles sur les Champs 2013 auction was held 10 June in Paris, resulting in €8.7-million in total sales and a 90% sell-through rate. The 5th auction in Artcurial’s ‘Automobiles Sur Les Champs’ series of Paris sales was held, for the first time, in the Theatre du Rond-Point, opposite the Artcurial headquarters on the [...]

Bonhams Greenwich 2013 – Auction Results

The Bonhams Greenwich Auction 2013 was held June 2nd at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance in Connecticut, resulting in $5.6 million in total sales and a 76 percent sell-through rate. The top result at the Bonhams Greenwich Concours sale went to the 1930 Bugatti Type 43 Supercharged Sports 2/4 Seater that sold for $875,000, followed by [...]

Worldwide Houston Classic 2013 – Auction Report

Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Worldwide pulled out all the stops for the second iteration of their Houston Classic auction May 4, 2013 at the La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa in Montgomery, Texas, assembling an exceptional collection of cars. Over half, 67 of 113, were offered without reserve including three that [...]

Laidlaw Collection Offered at RM Auctions London 2013

The competition car collection of Irvine Laidlaw will headline the 2013 RM Auctions London sale, scheduled for 7-9 September, at its established Battersea Park location and in partnership with the St. James’s Concours of Elegance in central London. The highlight of the Lord Irvine Laidlaw Competition Car Collection is the ex-Works and ex-Ecurie Ecosse, 1955 [...]

Bonhams Spa Classic 2013 – Auction Results

The inaugural Bonhams auction at the Spa Classic historic races was held Saturday 25th May 2013 at the Spa Motor Circuit in Belgium, resulting in a total of nearly €3.4 million. The top result at the 2013 Bonhams Spa Classic auction went to the 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB Berlinetta, offered with well-documented period competition history, [...]

RM Auctions Concorso Villa d’Este 2013 – Auction Results

The RM Auctions Villa d’Este 2013 sale was held 25th May at Villa Erba on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, resulting in total sales of €27,322,400 ($35,519,120 USD) and an 84 percent sell-through rate. As part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend, a crowd in excess of 1000 people saw five cars exceed [...]

Auctions America Auburn Spring 2013 – Auction Results

The Auctions America Auburn Spring 2013 sale was held May 9-11 at the Auburn Auction Park in Auburn, Indiana, resulting in $5.7 million in total sales and 77 percent sell-through rate. Bidders hailed from seven countries and 38 states across the U.S., with nearly one-third of participants representing new clientele. Top sale honors at the [...]

Bonhams Greenwich 2013 – Auction Preview

The Bonhams Greenwich Auction 2013 will be held Sunday, June 2nd at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance in Connecticut. The sixth annual sale will see a strong selection of 100 motor cars offered for sale, including models from Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Bentley, Cadillac, Jaguar, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Rolls-Royce, among others. Leading this consignments for [...]

Bonhams Aston Martin 2013 – Auction Results

The 2013 Bonhams auction of Aston Martin and Lagonda motor cars was held Saturday 18th May at Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell, UK, resulting in more than £10 million in total sales and an 100% sell-through rate. The 14th annual sale saw many lots achieve well above their high estimates. The Bonhams sale set [...]

Mecum Kansas City Spring 2013 – Auction Report

Mecum Auctions, Kansas City, Missouri, April 25-27, 2013 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Mecum Auctions holds two sales each year in Kansas City, a reflection of several things, notably the supply of quality consignments in the region and a particularly good urban venue with abundant indoor display space (you could overhaul a [...]

One-Off Ferrari Offered at 2013 Bonhams Quail Lodge

A Vignale-bodied 1953 Ferrari 250 Europa Coupe will be among the headline offerings at the 2013 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, scheduled for August 16th on the grounds of the Quail Lodge property in Carmel Valley, California. This one-of-a-kind Ferrari was designed by Giovanni Michelotti for Vignale and sold new to the North American Ferrari importer [...]