Burning Up the Racetrack, Not the Car – Insurance Advice
By Bill Crowley, Chubb & Son What’s the biggest financial exposure that owners of valuable automobiles confront? Leaving aside a depressed sales market, a collision is the top risk followed by fire. There is a sea of difference between these two threats, however. A collision will bang up just one owned vehicle (at a time), [...]
Worldwide Auctioneers Buys Atlantic City Auction
Worldwide Auctioneers has purchased part of the long-standing Atlantic City Auction from G. Potter King, Inc, assuming ownership of the event’s premier catalogue auction, traditionally limited to a smaller number of high end automobiles. “As our company continues to expand, we are delighted to have completed this acquisition of one of the most significant auctions [...]
Mullin Automotive Museum – Worth the Trip from Anywhere
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor There are number of great automobile collections around the world. I’m far from an expert on them, but the best of the best have to very good to be better than the collection and facility that Peter Mullin has put together in Oxnard, California. Although the Mullin [...]
Capitol Concours d’Elegance 2010 – Update
The Capital Concours d’Elegance 2010, held Sunday, September 19th in its new home on the greens of Capitol Mall in Sacramento, California, also includes a full weekend of activities highlighted by the Tour d’Elegance and Opening Dinner Gala. On Saturday, September 18, the Capitol Concours Tour d’Elegance kicks off a full weekend of festivities aimed [...]
SOVREN Pacific Northwest Historics 2010 – Report and Photos
Report and photos by Marshall Autry Along with fireworks and outdoor activities, the 4th of July weekend in Seattle means two things: The really nice weather starts the day AFTER the holiday, and the Pacific Northwest Historic Races. Now in it’s 22nd year, the Historics, held at Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA, has become the [...]
Monterey Auction Report 2010 – Massive Monterey Money
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Okay, so I like alliteration, but that headline is no stretch at all in the case of the 2010 Monterey auctions. RM Auctions, Gooding & Company, Bonhams & Butterfields and Mecum Auctions reported a combined $164,231,617 in sales in nine selling sessions held over a span of just four [...]
Goodwood Breakfast Club 2010 – Classic Sunday Photo Gallery
The theme for the seventh Goodwood Breakfast Club of 2010 was “Classic Sunday”, featuring plenty of pre-1966 cars on display on the grid and in the Paddocks. Held 29 August 2010, it was the last Breakfast Club ahead of the Goodwood Revival, which takes place on 17-19 September 2010, and it provided the perfect opportunity [...]
Featured Consignments at RM Auctions Hershey 2010
RM Auctions announced featured entries for its annual Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey 2010 event, returning October 7-8 to Hershey, Pennsylvania. A featured highlight of the annual AACA Eastern Fall Meet, the two-day Hershey sale promises a roster of over 120 automobiles, joined by an extensive range of memorabilia. Early sale highlights include a series [...]
Saratoga Fall Ferrari Festival 2010 Features Zagato
Zagato and the heritage of Italian design will be featured by the 2010 Fall Ferrari Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York on September 10-12. The event will be highlighted by a Design Symposium hosted by Andrea Zagato, current head of the iconic design house founded by his grandfather Ugo Zagato in 1919. The featured automobile [...]
Alfa Romeo GTAm Voted Favorite Among Alfisti
Although Alfa Romeo has to date created more than 70 models in its rich 100 year history, it all came down to a battle between just two iconic Alfas in a poll of fans’ favourites, initiated to celebrate the Italian marque’s centenary year. And it was the classic Alfa Giulia GTAm that came top of [...]
Goodwood Revival 2010 – Racing Themes and Schedule
The Goodwood Revival 2010, to be held 17-19 September on the celebrated West Sussex motor circuit, is set to be a very special weekend, with mouth-watering grids, scintillating on-track action and a number of significant anniversaries to celebrate. The 2010 edition of the Goodwood Revival is set to build on the success of last year’s [...]
Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010 – Picture Gallery
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010, held August 12-15 at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, featured more than 600 vintage race cars grouped into 19 classes. Photographer Dennis Gray documented the racing action, offering a total of 275 images from the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010 on top of 100 [...]
Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance 2010 – Information
The Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance 2010 will be held September 10-12 on the grounds of Radnor Hunt, outside of Philadelphia in rural Malvern, Pennsylvania. The 14th annual Radnor Hunt Concours will featured cars from Studebaker, the coachwork of Pininfarina and a selection of vintage Triumph motorcycles. A display of vintage coaches and carriages makes a [...]
Auburn Fall Collector Car Auction Update – Auctions America
Auctions America by RM officially opens its gates to the upgraded Auburn Auction Park on Wednesday, September 1st for a free public preview of the facility and the auction cars as it gears up for its inaugural ‘Auburn Fall Collector Car Auction’, scheduled for September 2-5, 2010. A 1934 Duesenberg Model JN Convertible Sedan by [...]
1955 Arnolt-Bristol – Classified Ads from the Past
By Will Silk The latest Classified Ads from the Past is a rare all-aluminum 1955 Arnolt-Bristol offered for sale in the pages of Road & Track in 1972 for $6,000. The story of the Arnolt-Bristol is a short lived, but incredibly wild venture. The man behind the beautiful Arnolt-Bristol cars started out as a mechanical engineer [...]
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