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Mercedes-Benz SL Celebrates 60th Birthday

Mercedes-Benz SL Celebrates 60th Birthday

“Dear editors – The new Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (Super Light) sports car will complete test drives in public for the first time during this week. In light of this occasion, please find enclosed the car’s technical data and a photo.” This was how the company announced the debut of 300 SL (model series W 194) [...]

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, [...]

Ferrari F40 Honored at Silverstone Classic 2012

Ferrari F40 Honored at Silverstone Classic 2012

The Silverstone Classic 2012 plans to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Ferrari F40 supercar with a world record gathering of F40s at the classic racing festival, scheduled for 20-22 July. The largest collection of F40s ever seen in one place is being organised by the Ferrari Owners’ Club of Great Britain. “Our original aim [...]

Andy Warhol Cars Exhibition Featured

Andy Warhol Cars Exhibition Featured

An exhibition examining Andy Warhol’s fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society is on display until May 13, 2012 at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Warhol and Cars: American Icons exhibit features more than forty drawings, paintings, photographs and related archival material spanning from 1946 to 1986. The exhibition [...]

Goodwood Revival How and Why – Part Two

Goodwood Revival How and Why – Part Two

The Goodwood Revival – The Best Place on Earth to See the Things We Love By Ned J. Lawler | Photos by Ned J. and Kate Lawler, Shamrock Motoring Images (Note: Part One found here) Part Two – Hallowed Ground “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to [...]

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 [...]

Winter Marathon 2012 – Report and Photos

Winter Marathon 2012 – Report and Photos

The 24th annual Winter Marathon was held 19-22 January 2012 in Madonna di Campiglio situated in the Dolomites of Italy. The father and daughter team of Ezio and Francesca Salviato took overall honors in their 1939 Lancia Aprilia, as they braved tough conditions to place a win over the other 158 teams in the 2012 [...]

IMRRC to Celebrate Elva

IMRRC to Celebrate Elva

The car whose name means “she goes” will be the focus of activities on April 21-22, 2011 at the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen. The Elva is described as “deceptively simple—and surprisingly competitive” by the publisher of an award-winning book about the marque, Elva: The Cars, The People, The History, by racing [...]

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 [...]

California Mille 2012 Information

California Mille 2012 Information

The 2012 running of the California Mille will take place April 29th to May 3rd over 1,000 miles of twisty back roads in California Gold Country, Lake Tahoe and historic Nevada. The 22nd annual running of the California Mille will begin Sunday, April 29th with a public car show at the Fairmont Hotel atop San [...]

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’ [...]

Silver Arrows Featured at 2012 Goodwood Revival

Silver Arrows Featured at 2012 Goodwood Revival

The 2012 Goodwood Revival, scheduled for 14-16 September, will celebrate the pre-war Silver Arrows of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union, 75 years after their first appearance on a British racing circuit. Goodwood is hailing the arrival of the famous Silver Arrows Grand Prix cars as an “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” as spectators will see these beasts driven in [...]

Concorso Atlantico Joins Amelia Concours Weekend

Concorso Atlantico Joins Amelia Concours Weekend

The inaugural Concorso Atlantico celebrating Italian automobiles will be held Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort on Amelia Island, Florida. Owners of vehicles of Italian heritage are invited to display their vehicles on one of the Omni’s golf courses bordering the Atlantic Ocean. “We are looking forward to hosting a [...]

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 [...]

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