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...
The 10 Biggest 2024 Auction Sales
Tens of thousands of classic cars, trucks and motorcycles sell at auction every year, and 2024 was no different. While more collector vehicles sold...
Launch Mode: Introducing The Hagerty Supercars Index
The new Supercars Index is an extension of the existing group of Hagerty Price Guide (HPG) indexes. While those indexes start way back in...
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,...
Sale Of Hamilton’s First Mercedes F1 Car Sets New Auction Record
The most expensive Formula 1 car sold at auction remains driver Juan Manuel Fangio’s Grand Prix–winning car, a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 sold by Bonham’s...
Are Automotive Icons Facing Demographic Headwinds?
If you’re a regular at Insider, you’ve probably noted that frequently reference demographic data, in particular age. That’s due to both supply and demand....
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 Actual Hagerty Price Guide Indexes
The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes—first published in 2009—are seven stock market-style indexes that average the condition #2 (“excellent”) values of representative vehicles, or “component”...
Buying A Historic Formula 1
You don’t have to be Lewis Hamilton to drive a McLaren Formula 1 car, nor do you have to have “C. Leclerc” stitched into...
The Most Expensive Aston Martins Sold At Auction
In January 1913, Aston Martin became Britain’s newest carmaker. Cofounder Lionel Martin had already been racing at the nearby Aston Hill Climb in Buckinghamshire,...
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...
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...
