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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…

Grown Up: The Porsche 914

Purists used to scoff at the 914. Part Porsche and part VW, it didn’t really fit in either camp. It used to be cheap,...

Fords First GT Values Stand Strong

When Chief Designer Camilo Pardo first took up his tools in 1999 to bring the 2002 Ford GT40 concept car to life, the stakes...

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,...

Hagerty Indexes Reveal A Mixed Market

The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes—first published in 2009—are a series of stock market-style indexes that average the condition #2 (“excellent”) values of representative vehicles,...

Cobras And Their Kin – 4 Alternatives

The Shelby Cobra story has been told a million and one times, but that’s because it’s a damn good one. Built for a few...
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...

Buying Guide: VW Camper 1950 – 1967

As a child of the late ’90s, I associate the VW Bus with the first Cars movie. Specifically, with Fillmore, the pastel green VW...

A Hunk Of Twisted Metal Or The Ultimate Blank Slate?

With the dust settling (literally, it’s dry out here) at the Monterey auctions, we’re looking at nearly $400M in total sales, including over 150...

Buying Guide: 1972-80 Mercedes-Benz W116 S-Class

The original Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a real number generator. It ended up being offered in nine different model forms, sold 473,035 units in its...
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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...

Buying Guide: 1936-55 MG T-Type

The T-type MG Midget. The prewar design that triggered the postwar U.S. love affair with British sports cars. The dated machine derided when still in production as...