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...
This 1908 Harley-Davidson bid to $400,000, but failed to meet its reserve. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 25th-annual MidAmerica motorcycle auction featured five bikes that cracked the $100,...
Photos courtesy Barris.com and Barrett-Jackson. Solar panels? Check. Swanky interior with a rotating bed? Check. Its own logo? Check. In fact, the Super Van’s probably got more unique features than m...
XKC 011, a 1952 Jaguar C-Type. Photos by Matt Howell, courtesy Bonhams Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Jaguar’s XK 120 C, commonly referred to as the C-Type, put the racing world on notice when it ...
Under new ownership and reeling from a decline in the snowmobile market, Rupp Manufacturing needed a home-run product to reverse its fortunes in 1974. Its roll-of-the-dice gamble was the Centaur, a t...
1910 Royal Pioneer. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In addition to the 25th-annual Mecum MidAmerica Motorcycle Auction taking place in early January, collectors of vintage two-wheeled iron will be ...
Last year was a successful one for several auction houses selling some pretty impressive bikes as well as a few head-scratching project bikes. In all, there were 15 new “highest sold motorcycles” add...
Last year was a successful one for several auction houses selling some pretty impressive bikes as well as a few head-scratching project bikes. In all, there were 15 new “highest-sold motorcycles” add...
Photo by Matthew Ragan. With another year in the record books, it’s time once again to dust off the crystal ball with an oil-stained shop rag and peer into the future to divine five predictions for t...
Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Raw speed, indeed, is the only thing that’ll get a racer to the finish line first – chrome don’t get you home, as they say – but developing a pro...
1918 Harley-Davidson board track racer. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The first full week of January, 2016, will no doubt have hundreds of motorcycle collectors and investors looking for that next ...
Porsche 962-108C-2. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Delivered to Porsche privateer Jim Busby in time for the opening of the 1985 season, the Porsche 962 carrying chassis tag 962-10...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As lore has it, Dale Earnhardt was just about ready to hang up his helmet in 1974 and turn his back on racing for good when he got the opportunity to test a factory-bu...
The 2,000,000th Land Rover Defender. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By any measure, it was an unusual auction: A single lot was presented on stage at Bonhams’s Bond Street showroom in London, Eng...
1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To win concours d’elegance gold, one must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to achieve automotive perfection, or so says conventiona...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Built for NASCAR homologation purposes, Plymouth’s 1970-only Superbird proved to be a tough sell to consumers. By the mid-1970s, most dealers were d...
1939 Cadillac Sixteen seven-passenger sedan. Photos courtesy Russo and Steele. Rick Nuckolls didn’t visit McPherson College with the intent of buying an unrestored and mostly disassembled 1939 Cadill...