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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. [...]

Japan New Year Meeting 2012 – Report and Photos

Japan New Year Meeting 2012 – Report and Photos

New Year Meeting 2012 – Starting the Year Off in Style Report and Photos by Len Clarke For auto enthusiasts in Tokyo and its surrounding areas, the end of January means the New Year Meeting, an annual event that brings together an almost unimaginable array of cars and assorted vehicles, both domestic and foreign, for [...]

George Follmer Receives RRDC Phil Hill Award

George Follmer Receives RRDC Phil Hill Award

George Follmer, who has competed in virtually every form of auto racing and is considered one of the sport’s living legends, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2012 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented Follmer with the award at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 [...]

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 [...]

A.J. Foyt Honored at 2012 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona

A.J. Foyt Honored at 2012 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona

With over 50 years in motorsports – as a driver and team owner – American A. J. Foyt’s remarkable career has seen him make his mark nationally and abroad in at least four countries: Canada, Great Britain, France and New Zealand. His race record includes: winning the Indianapolis 500 four times in 35 consecutive tries; [...]

Porsche Museum Celebrates 911 Identity

Porsche Museum Celebrates 911 Identity

For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports car. That means that the launch of the new Type 991 is an important event for the Porsche Museum Stuttgart as well. As a curtain raiser for 2012, the new generation is being welcomed as [...]

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 [...]

NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival 2012 – Hampton Downs

NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival 2012 – Hampton Downs

Series young gun Michael Lyons (Lola T400) completed an MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series clean sweep with another lights-to-flag victory in the final 15 lap feature at the second New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing – celebrating BMW Motorsport historic motor racing meeting at the Hampton Downs circuit south of Auckland on January 28-29, [...]

Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 – Report and Photos

Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 – Report and Photos

The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 was held January 28-29 on the 12-turn, 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway, a combined track made up of portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield road course. With the minutes ticking down on the Rolex clock in Pit Row, there was an epic battle for the 2012 Rolex [...]

Equipe Europe – Profile and Photo Gallery

By Csaba Kiss If one has the occasion to visit Yvan Mahe’s Equipe Europe workshop in Ozouer Le Voulgis, France, the feeling one can get is that of dropping in on a living classic car museum. Situated in the picturesque French countryside, about 30 miles from Paris, the Equipe Europe garage is specialized in the [...]

Louwman Museum – Profile and Photos

Report and photos (unless noted) by Peter Helbach The Louwman Museum was opened by HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on July 2, 2010. This opening marked the culmination of eight years of very hard work by Mr. Evert Louwman and his management team, led by Museum director Ronald Kooyman. Regulations being what they are, [...]

Goodwood FoS 2012 – Group C and Sports Car Racing

Goodwood FoS 2012 – Group C and Sports Car Racing

The 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed will honor sports car racing in 1972 and the 30th anniversary of the famed Group C era when it returns to the 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb in West Sussex, England on 28 June to 1 July. Forty years ago, the 1972 season was a pivotal year in sports car racing. [...]

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 [...]

NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival 2012 – Festival Race Report

NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival 2012 – Festival Race Report

Young gun Michael Lyons (Lola T400) won all four MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series races at the first New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing – celebrating BMW Motorsport meetings at the Hampton Downs circuit south of Auckland on January 21-22, 2012 but series point leader Steve Ross (McRae GM1) added the icing on the [...]

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