Sports Car Digest focuses on Classic Car Auctions, Concours d’Elegance, Vintage Car Racing, Road Rallies and other historic automotive events.
The 19th running of the Spa Six Hours was held September 23-25, 2011 at the 4.352 mile, 21-turn Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. With a competitive field of 600 historic racing cars, warm weather and huge crowds, the event a great success and surely one of the strongest in Europe for 2011. In addition to Marcel Hundscheid's report and photos and Peter Falkner's photo gallery, we offer … [Read more...]
The 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed will honour the Lotus marque with the main ‘Central Feature’ installation, displayed prominently outside Goodwood House. Goodwood will celebrate this much-loved British brand at an exciting time in the marque’s history, as Lotus is currently two years into a five year plan with the goal of returning the marque to its original status alongside other … [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...]
Report and photos by Leigh Dorrington The 2011 Louisville Concours d’Elegance at Churchill Downs benefitting Brooklawn Child and Family Services provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the 1915 Duesenberg racing car of Joe Freeman to be driven on the historic Churchill Downs track. The Duesenberg is one of five team cars built by brothers Fred and Augie Duesenberg between 1913-1916 … [Read more...]
The 2012 Salon Prive Concours d'Elegance will be held on the grounds of Syon Park in London from 5th-7th September. The September date represents another change for Salon Prive, as 2011 saw the event relocate to Syon House in West London from the Hurlingham Club, in addition to moving forward to June from its traditional July slot. David Bagley, co-founder of Salon Prive commented, "The move to … [Read more...]
The foundation of a corporate archive in 1936 was a necessary step for the then Daimler-Benz AG. The timing was chosen for its symbolic significance – exactly 50 years after the invention of the automobile. The aim was to preserve this half-century using the documentary records and lay the groundwork for collecting these kinds of documents in future. It was an eventful era that ushered in … [Read more...]
A Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe (CSX2299) will be among the featured cars at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11 on the 10th and 18th fairways of the Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. The Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe will be part of the 36 Hours of Florida Class at the 17th annual event. There were just … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Ben Dillon Speed Style Beauty was held 25-27 November 2011 at the Portside Wharf in Brisbane, Australia. Speed Style Beauty, a display of rolling art from over a century of car design got off to a strong start as one of Australia’s newest but most impressive car shows with vehicles as diverse and disparate as a 1910 Brush and a 2011 Ferrari California on display all in … [Read more...]
By Leigh Dorrington The Mercedes-Benz Museum at the company’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany is a depository of the history of the automobile, motorsport, commercial transportation and the Twentieth Century altogether, presented in one of the most modern museums in the world. Two names, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, stand above all others in the company’s history. But there were … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Dirk de Jager The Belgian Racing Legends exhibition is currently held at Autoworld located in Jubel Park in the centre of Brussels, Belgium. The exposition, focused on the Belgian gentlemen drivers and their cars, will continue until 15 January 2012. One of the key features with setting up Belgian Racing Legends was to honor the late Jacques Swaters and his exploits … [Read more...]
Several prominent cars from the famed Ralph Lauren Collection are currently offered for sale, and at prices that will make you jump for your wallet. For a mere $9,500, you can have your choice between the Ferrari 250 GTO, Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, McLaren F1 GTR or Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. The only catch is that they are offered in 1:8 scale... The headline cars in Mr. Lauren's private … [Read more...]
Mecum Auctions, Kansas City, Missouri, December 1-3, 2011 Report and photos by Rick Carey, Auction Editor Mecum Auctions continues to confirm its place at the core of the collector car hobby, assembling a consignment of 839 cars indoors at the Kansas City Convention Center for an early December 2011 three-day Thursday through Saturday sale. What Mecum is accomplishing is remarkable. … [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...]
The Goodwood Revival 2011 was held 16-18 September at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England. A crowd of than 135,000 historic motorsport enthusiasts made their way to Goodwood to celebrate another epic motor racing weekend, the vast majority dressed in period fashions. On the track a tribute to the legendary racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio - 100 years after this birth - saw a grid … [Read more...]
