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.
With the 2012 Arizona Auction Week and Paris sales behind us, we thought it was a good time to update the ranking of the Top 10 prices paid for cars sold at auction.While there were no new entries from the Arizona or Paris auctions, there were three new cars since our last update, the new world-record 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype that sold for $16,390,000, the 1931 Duesenberg Model J … [Read more...]
The Porsche Collection of Matt Drendel will be offered at the 2012 Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction, scheduled for Friday, March 9th in Amelia Island, Florida.The Drendel Family Collection consists of both road and race cars spanning 25 years of Porsche history from 1973 – 1997, with 10 of the 18 lots being offered without reserve. In addition, Gooding Amelia Island 2012 sale … [Read more...]
Barrett-Jackson announced that Gordon McCall joined the auction company to help launch and maintain its newly created “Salon Offering Collection” division.McCall is well-known in the classic car community as Co-Founder and Motorsports Director of the Quail, a Motorsports Gathering and the Quail, a Motorcycle Gathering events. McCall has also served as a Judge and Field Coordinator at the … [Read more...]
RM Auctions returns to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Amelia Island, Florida on March 10, 2012 for its annual Amelia Island auction.Now in its 14th year, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance will showcase over 100 automobiles, with consignments including a 1934 Packard Twelve Dietrich Convertible Victoria and a 1929 Cord L-29 Hayes Coupe. In 2011, RM Auctions once … [Read more...]
Gooding & Company will return to Florida for its 2012 Amelia Island Auction on Friday, March 9th.Held on the grounds of the Omni Amelia Island Plantation, the 3rd annual Gooding & Company Amelia Island sale will feature a 1953 Fiat 8V Zagato (estimate $750,000 - $900,000), a matching-numbers 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing (estimate $700,000 - $900,000) with factory-installed Rudge wheels, … [Read more...]
The George Daniels Collection of motorcars and motorcycles will headline the 2012 Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction, scheduled for Friday 29th June on the Tapestry Lawn at Goodwood House in Chichester, Sussex. The seven automobiles and two motorcycles consigned to the Bonhams Goodwood sale are expected to realise in excess of £8,000,000.George Daniels CBE, DSc, FBHI, FSA (1926-2011) … [Read more...]
A collection of Packard Twelves from the estate of Thomas A. Moretti will be featured at the 2012 Gooding & Company Scottsdale Auction, scheduled for January 20-21 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The headline offering from the Moretti Collection is a 100-point 1932 Packard Twin Six Coupe formerly owned by Hollywood legend Clark Gable."We are honored to have been chosen to sell the beloved cars from … [Read more...]
Historics at Brooklands will offer an Alfa Romeo model car collection at its winter sale, scheduled for February 18, 2012 at Mercedes-Benz World in Surrey, England.The 700 strong ‘Martin Webb Collection’ of cars, model kits and books is a life-long representation of an owner’s tireless pursuit of a passion, and includes three extremely rare, unopened, 1/8th scale Italian ‘Pocher’ … [Read more...]
Race Retro announced that Silverstone Auctions will be its new auction partner for the 2012 historic motorsport show when it returns to Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, from 24-26 February.Race Retro will be the first time Silverstone Auctions has conducted an auction away from its Silverstone home. … [Read more...]
A 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider from the Jean-Claude Bajol Collection will headline the 2012 Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction, scheduled for 3 February in Paris. Approximately half of the cars will be offered at no reserve and many will be fresh to the market.Jean-Claude Bajol, a well-known film director who died earlier this year, was one of the first French collectors of … [Read more...]
A Shelby Cobra 427 Prototype is one of the headline offerings at the 12th annual Russo and Steele Scottsdale auction, scheduled for January 18-22, 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona.This original 427 Cobra CSX3127 built at Shelby American in 1965 was the fourth of just 260 original 427 Street Cobras produced by Shelby. While most Cobras were shipped by boat to the States, the importance of 3127 is … [Read more...]
Gooding and Company will feature a trio of Italian automobiles at their 2012 Scottsdale auction, scheduled for January 20-21 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The headline offerings include a 1956 Ferrari 500 Testa Rossa Scaglietti Spider, 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV by Bertone and 1971 Maserati Ghibli 4.9 SS Spider by Ghia.“These days, extraordinary cars that are rare and have great provenance are … [Read more...]
RM Auctions will return to the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix on January 19-20 for its 2012 Automobiles of Arizona auction event. The 13th annual RM Auctions Arizona sale will see approximately 150 automobiles cross the auction block, headlined by multiple Ferraris including a one-off 1957 Ferrari 410 Superamerica.“Following another vibrant year in 2011, we’re thrilled to return to … [Read more...]
A historic 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle is expected to establish a new world record for a motorcycle sold at auction when it crosses the podium at Auctions America by RM’s debut Las Vegas sale, January 12 – 14, 2012. The multi-day auction will feature more than 400 collector motorcycles.The second of just two steam-powered motorcycles built by Sylvester Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts, … [Read more...]
The RM Auctions Monaco sale in 2012 will expand to two days when the biennial auction returns to the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 10-12 May.Once again corresponding with the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, RM Auctions' 2012 Monaco sale will see 80 automobiles cross the auction block, in addition to the Saltarelli Collection of significant Ducati motorcycles. The addition of the motorcycles … [Read more...]
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