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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…

Are Barn Finds & Project Cars In Trouble?

If you’ve been in the car world for any length of time, you’ve surely heard terms like “barn find” or “survivor,” both of which...

March Auctions: A Stable Market Is Back

One of the most diverse collector car auction weeks in history has wrapped, with $183.8M trading hands across 468 vehicles offered spanning 121 years...
What Have The Paris Auctions Shown Us?

What Have The Paris Auctions Shown Us?

Just as U.S. collectors flock to Monterey’s California sunshine (and occasional fog) every August and the British meet at Salon Privé, Hampton Court, and...

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,...

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...

The Best BMW M5

Germany is no stranger to a fast saloon, BMW, Mercedes and Audi have been building them for years. But it’s arguably BMW that does...

Steve McQueens Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Is Up For Auction

When it comes to pricing classic automobiles, celebrity ownership does not always translate to big money. Sometimes, though, it really, really does—like when it’s...

Buying Guide: Lotus Esprit

Car enthusiasts who came of age in the ’80s or ’90s regard Lotus as a bonafide manufacturer of exotic cars, the names of which...
Results + Highlights From The Retromobile Auctions

Results + Highlights From The Retromobile Auctions

The European season opener is over, and the automotive crowds have once again dispersed from Rétromobile, the huge classic and collector car show held...

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,...

1960-1964 Ford Galaxie Values

America couldn’t get enough of the space race in the late ’50s and early ’60s—seemingly everything carried the theme, from consumer products to TV...

Volkswagen Bus Demand Is Soaring

The Vee Dub, the Westie, the Splittie, and the Bay; an entire vocabulary has evolved around one of the most famous vehicles on the...