Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal
Sports Car Digest focuses on Classic Car Auctions, Concours d’Elegance, Vintage Car Racing, Road Rallies and other historic automotive events.
Led by Auction Editor Rick Carey, our coverage of auctions and collector car markets includes everything from late-breaking news and auction results to varied opinions about market trends and values.
Mecum Auctions will offer collectors a piece (or two) of American racing history at the 2012 Monterey auction, scheduled for August 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in Monterey, California. The 4th annual sale will be headlined by STP Lotus Type 56/3 Turbine driven by Graham Hill at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 and the 1972 Can-Am Championship-winning Porsche 917/10-003 Spyder. … [Read more...]
RM Auctions announced more featured offerings for the August 17–18, 2012 Monterey sale, a 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Berlinetta and a 1938 Talbot-Lago T23 Teardrop Coupe. The 410 S, chassis 0594 CM, is the only example built with a closed body, while the Talbot-Lago, chassis 93064, is the sole Jeancart-style Teardrop originally built upon a four-liter T23 chassis.The Ferrari and Talbot-Lago … [Read more...]
The RM Auctions Monaco 2012 auction was held 11-12 May at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, resulting in more than €33,521,710 ($43,410,615 USD) in total sales and an 87% sell-through rate.Held during the same weekend as the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, the two-day RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale presented a collection of more than 90 automobiles, 100 Ducati motorcycles and three boats. … [Read more...]
Worldwide Auctioneers held its Houston Classic Auction 2012 on Saturday, May 5th at the La Torretta Lake Resort in Montgomery, Texas, resulting in more than $7 million in sales and an 85% sell-through rate.The 11th annual Houston Classic Auction saw nearly 120 motor cars cross the auction block, in addition to a selection of memorabilia from the Paul J. Meyer Estate Collection. … [Read more...]
A 1938 Horch 853A Erdmann and Rossi Sport Cabriolet, Best of Show winner at the 2004 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, will headline the 2012 RM Auctions Monterey sale, scheduled for August 17–18 in Monterey, California. One of only three known surviving examples of its kind, the Horch 853A was designed by Fritz Fiedler, who later created the BMW 315 and 328. Displaying coachwork by … [Read more...]
Branson Spring Collector Car Auction, Branson Convention Center, Missouri, April 20-12, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorBranson’s Leap Day EF3 tornado, just 7 weeks before the scheduled Spring Branson auction date, injected more than a little uncertainty into this year’s version of the Cox family’s semi-annual event.The Convention Center’s highrise Hilton … [Read more...]
The RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale will be staged 11-12 May at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The two-day, biennial RM Monaco auction is held the same weekend as the Monaco Historic Grand Prix.RM Auctions has assembled more than 90 automobiles for the 2012 Monaco sale, including one of two 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spiders ever built; a 1966 Ferrari 206 S Dino Spyder, offered for the first time in 40 … [Read more...]
The Bonhams Les Grandes Marques à Monaco 2012 auction will be held 11th May at the Musée des Voitures du Prince in Monte Carlo. The 26th annual sale coincides with the Monaco Historic Grand Prix, which is held every two years on the Monaco F1 street course.Headline offerings at the 2012 Bonhams Monaco auction include examples from Bugatti, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, … [Read more...]
Mecum Auctions held their inaugural Houston sale on April 13-14, 2012 at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas, resulting in total sales exceeding $18.5 million and an 80% sell-through rate. Mecum offered more than 700 vehicles during the two-day auction, with more than 12,000 attendees taking part in the weekend event.Dana Mecum, President and CEO of Mecum Auctions commented, “There has … [Read more...]
Mecum will auction the Salmon Brothers Collection on June 16th, 2012 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Offered without reserve, more than 140 automobile collection spans 100 years of American automotive history.Twin brothers Tom and Don Salmon, avid car collectors for more than 40 years will sell their private collection of more than 140 cars along with a group of GM engines, and a variety of … [Read more...]
Barrett-Jackson, South Florida Fairgrounds, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 5-7, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor2012 marked the tenth anniversary of Barrett-Jackson’s first sale in Palm Beach. Its success has conclusively proved the attraction of B-J’s “event” format and led to other B-J events in Las Vegas and Orange County.Each of the Barrett-Jackson … [Read more...]
Bonhams will offer the ex-GTC Gulf Team Davidoff 1997 McLaren F1 GTR Longtail FIA GT Endurance Racing Coupe at its 2012 Quail Lodge auction, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, August 16th and 17th at Quail Lodge in Carmel, California. The McLaren F1 GTR at the 2012 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, chassis 028R, is the 28th McLaren F1 GTR produced by the British McLaren Cars factory in Woking, … [Read more...]
Collector car auction icon Rick Cole has joined Barrett-Jackson as an Automotive Specialist. The announcement was made on the auction block during Barrett-Jackson’s Palm Beach event this past weekend.Barrett-Jackson said Los Angeles-based Cole will utilize his vast experience in the auction arena to help the company source consignments for collector cars. He will work with Gary Bennett, … [Read more...]
A selection of significant Ferraris have been consigned to the RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale, scheduled for May 11-12 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Scheduled during the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique weekend, the 2012 RM Auctions Monaco auction will offer a 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider, 1966 Ferrari 206 S Dino Spyder, 1953 Ferrari 375 MM Spider, ex-Michael Schumacher Ferrari Formula One Racing … [Read more...]
Auctions America by RM, Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 16-18, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorThis year marked RM’s tenth year in South Florida with a sale that has become one of the anchors of the annual auction calendar. After beginning on the polo field in Boca Raton (where the sand is like polishing compound) this sale took off … [Read more...]
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