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...
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: ...
The 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider hammers at $9 million, or $9.9 million with fees. Photo by Jensen Sutta, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. There’s an old saying that “nothi...
1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Superflow IV. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Launched in 1953, the Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM ( Competizione Maggiorata, or competition...
1975 Ferrari 312T chassis 022. Photos by Mike Maez, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. By 1974, it was apparent to Scuderia Ferrari that the handling ills of its 312B3 Formula 1 chassis c...
1930 Packard 734 Speedster Runabout. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Packard’s vice president of engineering, Colonel Jesse Vincent, loved fast cars so much tha...
1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2246, which sold for a fee-inclusive $1.05 million. CSX2246 photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Shelby 289 Cobra may well have been...
Photos courtesy Gooding & Company. The De Lorean is, of course, intrinsically linked to the Back to the Future franchise. Aside from its role as the time machine central to each film’s plot, it has t...
The 1935 Duesenberg SSJ hammers for a price of $20 million, $22 million with fees. Photo by Mike Maez, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In recent years, there’s been considerable speculat...
1966 Porsche 911 Spyder. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Southern California Porsche dealer Johnny von Neumann knew what his customers wanted, and a Targa ...
1935 Duesenberg SSJ roadster. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Duesenberg’s SJ models were noted for the performance of their 320-horsepower supercharged st...
1976 Porsche 934. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. In 1976, Porsche introduced the 934, a new racing car built for the FIA’s Group 4 GT c...
1967 Ford GT40 Mk IV, chassis J-12. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Originally dubbed the J-Car, in reference to the FIA’s Appendix J regulations under which...
The Iso Grifo A3/L prototype hammers at $1.6 million to set an auction record. Photos by Mike Maez unless otherwise noted; all photos copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Iso Grifo, like ...
1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. By 1938, Packard had been out of the truck manufacturing business for 15 years, but a brief collaboration with t...
In 1965, McLaren introduced the M1B, its latest sports racer for Group 7 (and later, Can-Am) competition, which regulated the number of seats (two) and very little else about a car’s construction. Th...
Photos by Matt Howell, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1988, Mazda introduced its latest Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) endurance racer, the 767, designed to take advantage of rule cha...
Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Aston Martin brand dates to 1913, and the company produced its first automobile in 1915. Its modern lineage, however, beg...
Photos of XKSS 716 by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1956, near the peak of the D-Type’s success in international sports car racing, Jaguar made the corporate decisio...
1960 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL and 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. What prompts attraction? This question has puzzled scientists and singles alike sinc...