A couple of weeks back, we regaled you with a tale about a near record-setting Pacer sale that went down here at Hemmings Auctions. We thought it was the top seller, but we were wrong. Not by much, b...
A couple of weeks back, we regaled you with a tale about a near record-setting Pacer sale that went down here at Hemmings Auctions. We thought it was the top seller, but we were wrong. Not by much, b...
Photo credit: Barrett-Jackson Craig Jackson grew up in the auction world. The company founded by his parents and Tom Barrett started in 1971, when Craig was still young. He started running the compan...
Gooding & Company topped the Scottsdale auction sales chart in 2020. Not in overall sales, as Barrett-Jackson’s volume yields a total haul that dwarfs the other auction houses, but in terms of indivi...
Bonhams has long been a staple of the mid-January Scottsdale, Arizona, auction scene, with the auction currently located at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa. This one-day sale, which began mid-mornin...
Mid-January is auction week in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this year there were eight auction companies in the region hosting sales. One of the first to run is Indiana-based Worldwide Auctioneers, which...
If you wanted the very first production 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and were ready to fork over anything less than $3,000,000, well, it wasn’t meant to be. That was the winning bid at Barrett-Ja...
“Little Red” was once thought destroyed, or at least lost without a chance of being found. It was the first of two Shelby G.T. 500 notchback prototypes, built into several configurations over its lif...
Who doesn’t love it when the product of ill-gotten gains are taken away in a public court? It’s best to avoid schadenfreude as a general rule, as there’s no virtue in taking delight in the misfortune...
Photo credit: Mecum If they show up at all when their car’s being sold, most sellers don’t bother showing up until the day the hammer drops for good. It’s a different story for Sean Kiernan. After al...
Photos courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. Bertone was once one of the greatest Italian design and coachbuilding houses. Its credits include styling icons such as the Lancia Str...
Whatever your opinion on Preston Tucker or his short-lived automobile company, it’s an undeniable fact that his cars carry a strong following. Give plenty of credit to Francis Ford Coppola’s Tucker: ...
Nissan Fairlady Z432R. Photos via BH Auction. Not often does a Nissan Fairlady Z432 go overlooked at auction these days. The Z-car variant with the S20 four-valve, triple-carbureted, dual-overhead-ca...
1982 Honda Motocompo scooter, ready for riding. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. By Honda’s original sales projections of 10,000 units per month, its three-year experiment building the Japanese-market...
Photo via Colani.org. Somewhere out there a metal figurine of a naked woman — her hair windswept back, her body prone but struggling for purchase against some hard-to-overcome force, and her left han...
Photos via Manheim Even though Holden stopped building cars in Australia two years ago, it will nevertheless be possible to buy an Australian-built car from the Australian arm of General Motors when ...
We’ve been rolling along for a couple of months now at Hemmings Auctions. We’ve witnessed some pretty cool cars cross our virtual block. Just about everyone on staff has seen something that has had u...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In early August 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts deployed the first moon buggy — technically the Lunar Roving Vehicle — on the surface of ol’ Luna, reaching blistering s...
Colani’s Utah 8. Photos via CataWiki. Just a month after designer Luigi Colani died, a number of his full-size design studies and working one-off cars – including some of his Automorrow racers design...
All images courtesy of Apple Auctioneering Co. You ever watch one of the big auctions on TV and just think of all the stuff you’d buy if you had the money? Well, that’s apparently what Jeff and Paule...
“I was not attempting to create a new genre of cars. I was attempting to harden an old Camaro enough to survive One Lap of America.” Unless you’re already familiar with Mark Stielow’s creations, ther...
Today’s daily briefing covers the origin story of the plaid seats in the Volkswagen GTI, what happens when a 2017 Ford GT turns into a used car, and what James Bond will be driving in his next movie....
Photo courtesy of Bilweb Auctions AB Oh how we miss the days when there was a glimmer of hope that Saab would survive bankruptcy and rise again like the Phoenix concept from the 2011 Geneva Auto Show...
Oaklands on Display Image courtesy of the AACA Museum The board at the AACA Museum have announced a display of early Oakland vehicles curated by the Keystone State Chapter of the Pontiac-Oakland Club...