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Ferrari Hydroplane Offered at RM Auctions Monaco 2012

Ferrari Hydroplane Offered at RM Auctions Monaco 2012

A 1953 Ferrari-engined hydroplane racing boat Arno XI will be featured at the RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale, scheduled for May 11-12 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The two-day, biennial RM Monaco sale is staged during the same weekend as the Monaco Historic Grand Prix. Arno XI was the brainchild of Achille Castoldi, who, [...]

Worldwide Atlantic City 2012 – Auction Preview

Worldwide Atlantic City 2012 – Auction Preview

Worldwide Auctioneers will hold its Classics at the Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City auction on February 24th, 2012, at the Trump Taj Mahal Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Among the selection of automobiles slated to go across the auction block at the 2012 Worldwide Auctioneers Atlantic City is a 1939 Packard Twelve Series [...]

Mecum Kissimmee 2012 – Auction Report

Mecum Kissimmee 2012 – Auction Report

Mecum Auctions, Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida, January 24-29, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This was the largest collector car auction in history. Its 2,158 cars and boats across the auction block were within a shout of the total cars that had crossed the block in Arizona the week before in [...]

Bonhams Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Report

Bonhams Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Report

Bonhams, Westin Kierland Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 19, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Bonhams joined the Arizona auction extravaganza this year, finding a choice location at the Westin Kierland Resort just across Scottsdale Road from the Scottsdale airport, about as centrally located as it’s possible to be and verdantly situated in [...]

RM Auctions Milhous Collection – Auction Preview

RM Auctions Milhous Collection – Auction Preview

RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will offer the Milhous Collection during a multi-day sale, February 24-25, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. The result of over five decades of judicious collecting by brothers Bob and Paul Milhous, the collection features a series of mechanical musical instruments, automobiles and collectibles, handpicked from around the world and [...]

Gooding and Co. Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Report

Gooding and Co. Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Report

Gooding & Company, Fashion Square, Scottsdale, January 20-21, 2012 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Since coming to Arizona in 2008 Gooding & Company has established itself at the core of the Arizona collector car auction experience, bringing outstanding cars and a refreshing upscale environment. 2012 continued that record, recording the Arizona auctions’ [...]

Top Ten Cars Sold at Auction as of February 2012

Top Ten Cars Sold at Auction as of February 2012

With the 2012 Arizona Auction Week and Paris sales behind us, we thought it was a good time to update the ranking of the Top 10 prices paid for cars sold at auction. While there were no new entries from the Arizona or Paris auctions, there were three new cars since our last update, the [...]

RM Auctions Arizona 2012 – Auction Report

RM Auctions Arizona 2012 – Auction Report

Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction Editor This year marked RM’s “Lucky Thirteenth” Arizona auction, held January 19-20, 2012 at the posh Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa. Growing from $6.3 million in 2000 to consistent totals in medium eight figures, RM’s $25,660,400 sale in 2012 marked the Arizona auction’s fifth year with [...]

Porsche Collection Offered at Gooding Amelia Island 2012

Porsche Collection Offered at Gooding Amelia Island 2012

The Porsche Collection of Matt Drendel will be offered at the 2012 Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction, scheduled for Friday, March 9th in Amelia Island, Florida. The Drendel Family Collection consists of both road and race cars spanning 25 years of Porsche history from 1973 – 1997, with 10 of the 18 lots being [...]

Artcurial Retromobile 2012 – Auction Results

Artcurial Retromobile 2012 – Auction Results

The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction was held Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris, resulting in €14.5 million in total sales and a 90% sell-through rate. The total sales figure was the highest ever for a collector car auction staged in France. Artcurial assembled a strong collection of approximately 100 automobiles for [...]

Bonhams Paris Sale 2012 – Auction Results

Bonhams Paris Sale 2012 – Auction Results

Bonhams held its flagship Paris auction on Thursday 2 February 2012 at La Halle Freyssinet in Paris, resulting in total sales of €7,198,038 and a 62% sell-through rate. Bonhams offered over 100 cars and 35 motorcycles, including three private collections, with top sale going to the 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Coupe that sold for €1,012,000. [...]

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Report

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Report

Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale event was so different from years ago it’s difficult to put it in perspective. B-J was once a collector car auction with a big party. Today it’s a bigger party, built around a collector car and affluent lifestyle trade show, custom/collector car auction and multi-day [...]

Mecum Kissimmee 2012 – Auction Results

Mecum Kissimmee 2012 – Auction Results

Mecum Auctions held its 2012 Kissimmee Auction on January 24-29 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, resulting in total sales of nearly $60,000,000 and a 73% sell-through rate. The Florida auction kicked off Mecum’s 25th year and a staggering 2,158 vehicles crossed the block, the most in company history. The six-day event achieved a [...]

Russo and Steele Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Russo and Steele Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Russo and Steele staged its 12th annual Sports and Muscle in Scottsdale auction on January 18-22, 2012 in Arizona, resulting in more than $20 million in sales and a 71% sell-through rate. Russo and Steele offered more than 700 cars over five days in Arizona, with the top sale going to the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette [...]

Arizona Auction Week 2012 – Summary Report

Arizona Auction Week 2012 – Summary Report

By Rick Carey, Auction Editor Once the spiritual home of the Muscle Car, clones, “Resto-mods” and Pony Cars, the Scottsdale auctions are now dominated by great sports cars, Classics and custom cars. The turnaround has been dramatic. Barrett-Jackson returned to its roots with a Salon collection assembled by Gordon McCall that posted curve-setting numbers: seven [...]

Artcurial Retromobile 2012 – Auction Preview

Artcurial Retromobile 2012 – Auction Preview

The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction will be staged Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris. Artcurial has assembled a strong collection of motor cars, automobilia and motorcycles for their 2012 Retromobile auction, headlined by the sale of cars from the former collection of Jean-Claude Bajol: a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder with [...]

Bonhams Paris Sale 2012 – Auction Preview

Bonhams Paris Sale 2012 – Auction Preview

Bonhams will hold its flagship Paris auction on Thursday 2 February 2012 at La Halle Freyssinet in Paris. Over 100 cars and 35 motorcycles, including several French-built cars and three private collections, are to be sold at the auction. Initially scheduled for 1 February 2012, Bonhams decided to move its sale to Thursday 2 February, [...]

Gooding and Company Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Gooding and Company Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Gooding & Company held its 2012 Scottsdale Auction event on January 20-21 at the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall in Scottsdale, Arizona, resulting in $39.8 million in total sales and a 98% sales rate. Gooding offered 118 lots for sale in Scottsdale, with top sale going to the alloy-bodied 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing that sold [...]

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Barrett-Jackson held its 41st annual Arizona auction at WestWorld of Scottsdale on January 15-22, 2012, resulting in more than $92 million in sales. Top sale at the 2012 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction went a 1948 Tucker Torpedo from the Ron Pratte Collection that sold for a world-record $2,915,000. Read the rest of Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2012 – [...]

Bonhams Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

Bonhams Scottsdale 2012 – Auction Results

The inaugural Bonhams Scottsdale auction was staged January 19th, 2012 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, resulting in $5.7 million in sales and a 60% sell-through rate. Bonhams assembled 67 automobiles for their first Arizona Auction Week sale, with a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet C taking home the top result at $667,000. Read [...]

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