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.
Leake Auction Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 17-18, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorOklahoma City kicked off the Leake Auction Company’s 40th Anniversary season. They appropriately announce, though, that patriarch Jimmy Leake held his first auction in conjunction with Sotheby’s in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1962. Further sales followed intermittently until the … [Read more...]
The RM Auctions Amelia Island 2012 auction will be held on Saturday, March 10th on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. RM Auctions assembled more than 100 automobiles for the single-day auction, which will again act as a prelude to this year’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance.“We’re thrilled to be returning to Amelia Island and continuing our strong track … [Read more...]
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, offered the Milhous Collection during a multi-day sale, February 24-25, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida, resulting in over $38.3 million in sales and 100% of all lots sold.The result of over 50 years of dedicated collecting by brothers Bob and Paul Milhous, the Milhous Collection auction presented a range of rare mechanical musical instruments, … [Read more...]
A 1953 Ferrari-engined hydroplane racing boat Arno XI will be featured at the RM Auctions Monaco 2012 sale, scheduled for May 11-12 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The two-day, biennial RM Monaco sale is staged during the same weekend as the Monaco Historic Grand Prix.Arno XI was the brainchild of Achille Castoldi, who, wanting to establish a world water speed record, set about developing the … [Read more...]
Worldwide Auctioneers will hold its Classics at the Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City auction on February 24th, 2012, at the Trump Taj Mahal Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Among the selection of automobiles slated to go across the auction block at the 2012 Worldwide Auctioneers Atlantic City is a 1939 Packard Twelve Series 1708 Brunn All Weather Cabriolet, one of only four produced; an … [Read more...]
Mecum Auctions, Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida, January 24-29, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorThis was the largest collector car auction in history.Its 2,158 cars and boats across the auction block were within a shout of the total cars that had crossed the block in Arizona the week before in seven separate auctions taking up sixteen separate auction … [Read more...]
Bonhams, Westin Kierland Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 19, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorBonhams joined the Arizona auction extravaganza this year, finding a choice location at the Westin Kierland Resort just across Scottsdale Road from the Scottsdale airport, about as centrally located as it’s possible to be and verdantly situated in something of an oasis of … [Read more...]
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will offer the Milhous Collection during a multi-day sale, February 24-25, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. The result of over five decades of judicious collecting by brothers Bob and Paul Milhous, the collection features a series of mechanical musical instruments, automobiles and collectibles, handpicked from around the world and representing the … [Read more...]
Gooding & Company, Fashion Square, Scottsdale, January 20-21, 2012Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorSince coming to Arizona in 2008 Gooding & Company has established itself at the core of the Arizona collector car auction experience, bringing outstanding cars and a refreshing upscale environment.2012 continued that record, recording the Arizona auctions’ highest sale, … [Read more...]
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...]
Report and photos (unless noted) by Rick Carey, Auction EditorThis year marked RM’s “Lucky Thirteenth” Arizona auction, held January 19-20, 2012 at the posh Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa. Growing from $6.3 million in 2000 to consistent totals in medium eight figures, RM’s $25,660,400 sale in 2012 marked the Arizona auction’s fifth year with greater than $20 million in sales.RM … [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...]
The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction was held Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris, resulting in €14.5 million in total sales and a 90% sell-through rate. The total sales figure was the highest ever for a collector car auction staged in France.Artcurial assembled a strong collection of approximately 100 automobiles for their 2012 Retromobile auction, with a … [Read more...]
Bonhams held its flagship Paris auction on Thursday 2 February 2012 at La Halle Freyssinet in Paris, resulting in total sales of €7,198,038 and a 62% sell-through rate.Bonhams offered over 100 cars and 35 motorcycles, including three private collections, with top sale going to the 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Coupe that sold for €1,012,000. … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction EditorBarrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale event was so different from years ago it’s difficult to put it in perspective.B-J was once a collector car auction with a big party.Today it’s a bigger party, built around a collector car and affluent lifestyle trade show, custom/collector car auction and multi-day automobilia auction, almost in that … [Read more...]
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