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collector cars are works of art and outperformed wine, watches and art-indexes – the global race to renounce combustion engines will only serve to heighten interests in these relics of a vanishing era…

Buyers Guide: 1962-80 Triumph Spitfire

The economics facing the postwar car industry in the U.K. were complex and challenging. The country was nearly bankrupt, and it had to sell...
Five Questions To Mark Leonard

Five Questions To Mark Leonard

Episode #8 Mark Leonard, Owner and Founder of Grand Prix Classics: Our new buyer’s guide series of short interviews with the most influential collectors...
Second Highest Ever Auction Sales In Monterey

Second Highest Ever Auction Sales In Monterey

Ferrari, Ferrari, Ferrari! Trends come and go but Ferrari remains timeless, again landing top spot amid the Monterey auctions. With eight of the top...

Shabby Chic Gullwing Sets A New Record In Paris

As automotive months go, it’s hard to beat August on the Monterey Peninsula. The cozy proximity of so much old-car excess is sensory overload,...
The Cheapest V-12 Classics

The Cheapest V-12 Classics

One of the interesting things about the piston-driven, internal-combustion engine is the sheer variety of its packaging. There’s the number of cylinders, of course,...
Predictions For The 2025 Collector Car Market

Predictions For The 2025 Collector Car Market

Although we inform our yearly market predictions with a trove of data, our 2024 predictions turned out to be mostly wrong, which was partly...

Five Questions To Bruce Canepa

Episode #6 Bruce Canepa: Our new buyer’s guide series of short interviews with the most influential collectors and dealerships is giving you some insight’s  into...

5 Snakes Bite Again At Mecum Kissimmee 2025

The Shelby/AC Cobra story is a famous one, and the car itself is one that millions of gearheads dream about owning. Since there aren’t...

20 Years Of Bugatti Veyron: How Is The Market For This Hypercar?

In art history, there have been many significant career retrospectives. Few landed quite like Pablo Picasso’s 1932 exhibition at Galeries Georges Petit. By then,...
The 10 Most Expensive Cars At The Monterey Auctions

The 10 Most Expensive Cars At The Monterey Auctions

This year’s Monterey Car Week auctions saw mixed results, with some disappointing numbers and unmet reserves contrasted with fervent bidding wars and record prices....
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Buying Guide: 1963-71 Mercedes-Benz SL

Mercedes-Benz has had an on-off relationship with its two-tiered sports car lineup. More recently there has been the SL/SLK, but the original was the...

The Best Cars At The Arizona Auctions

This biggest month of collector car auctions is upon us. As Mecum’s extravaganza in Kissimmee winds down, Hagerty is gearing up to look west...