Our friends at Hagerty meticulously covered the sales that made up Amelia Island Auctions, which in 2020 included Bonhams, Gooding and Company and RM Sotheby’s. Their comprehensive summary report follows, offering several insights and perspectives into the overall direction of the collector car market. Amelia Island Auctions 2020 - Summary Report Despite concerns about the coronavirus, stock prices, and a … [Read more...]
Amelia Island Concours 2020 – Report and Photos
The Amelia Island Concours 2020 was held March 5-8 on the 10th and 18th fairways of the Golf Club of Amelia Island adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. With fantastic weather and “look over there!” activity at every turn, the visual history lesson that is the Amelia Island Concours somehow eclipsed our exceedingly lofty expectations. This year marked the Silver Anniversary of the Concours, an event … [Read more...]
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2020 – Best of Show Winners
The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance 2020 was held Sunday, March 8th on the fairways of The Golf Club of Amelia Island next to the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida. With more than 300 cars and motorcycles in attendance, the judges at the 25th annual Amelia Island Concours were tasked with a difficult job of not only picking class winners, but also awarding the Best of Show Winners. The Concours awards Best … [Read more...]
Endurance Racing at 2020 Concorso Villa d’Este
Endurance racing cars from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s will be among the featured classes at the 2020 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, scheduled for 22-24 May on the grounds of the Hotel Villa d'Este and neighboring Villa Erba in Cernobbio, Italy. The three-day event will again see a small field of 50 historic automobiles displayed against the backdrop of Lake Como. The class “From Swinging Sixties to Awesome … [Read more...]
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2020 Theme
The featured theme for the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2020 will be "The Maestros -- Motorsport’s Great All-Rounders", celebrating those rare individuals with the skill, courage and determination to win across multiple motorsport disciplines. Whether on two wheels or four, on tarmac or gravel, tortuous street circuit or high-speed oval, in sprint races or 24-hour marathons, these are the consummate … [Read more...]
Ferrari 250 GT California Spider Offered
A 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider will headline the 2020 Gooding and Company Amelia Island auction, to be held March 6th at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Florida. “Great California Spiders are always sought-after, and often incite emotions of a sublime motoring experience,” said David Gooding, President and Founder of Gooding & Company. “It is always exciting for me as an enthusiast to … [Read more...]
Greatest Hits at 30th Silverstone Classic
The 2020 Silverstone Classic will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a 'greatest hits' showcase of retro races when its returns to the Silverstone circuit in England on 31 July - 2 August. Harking back to when Silverstone hosted the UK’s first-ever race meeting dedicated entirely to historic racing, no fewer than five of the grids for 2020 were actually featured on the original 1990 race card. Thirty years ago … [Read more...]
Ferrari 335 Sport Wins Peninsula Best of the Best Award
The 1958 Ferrari 335 Sport Spider by Scaglietti owned by Andreas Mohringer was named winner of the fifth Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award. A total of eight Best of Show winners from top 2019 Concours around the globe competed for the title of the most exceptional car in the world. This year’s winner was announced 6 February 2020 at the Peninsula Paris during the Retromobile Week. After winning Best of … [Read more...]
Bonhams Paris 2020 – Auction Results
The Bonhams Paris 2020 auction was held 6th February at the Grand Palais in Paris, resulting in €19,693,000 in total sales. Bonhams' ninth annual event during Retromobile Week took place beneath the cavernous glass domes of the Grand Palais. The top lot of the Bonhams Paris 2020 auction was the 1932 Bugatti Type 55 Roadster that sold for €4,600,000, the most valuable lot across all the Retromobile Week sales in … [Read more...]
Artcurial Retromobile 2020 – Auction Results
The Artcurial Retromobile 2020 auction was held 7-8 February at the Retromobile Show in Paris, resulting in €22,894,104 in total sales and a 70 percent sell-through rate. Maitre Herve Poulain, accompanied by Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff, brought the hammer down on five lots over one million euros at the tenth edition of the Salon Retromobile's official auction. Buyers from over 18 countries outside France … [Read more...]
RM Sotheby’s Paris 2020 – Auction Results
The RM Sotheby's Paris 2020 sale was held 7th February at Place Vauban in France, resulting in total sales of €16.5 million and a 75 percent sell-through rate. RM's seventh annual Paris event during Retromobile Week featured nearly 100 lots of cars and automobilia offered for sale. The top result at the RM Sotheby's Paris 2020 sale went to the restored, matching-numbers 1958 BMW 507 Series II that changed hands … [Read more...]
Mecum Kissimmee 2020 – Auction Results
The Mecum Kissimmee 2020 auction was held January 2-12 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, resulting in $105 million in total sales. A total of 2,140 vehicles were sold over the 11-day event. The top result at Mecum's 2020 Kissimmee sale went to the headline 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback made famous by the 1968 movie, Bullitt. … [Read more...]
Porsche 917/30 Featured at Amelia Island
Mark Donohue’s perfect racing car, the 1973 Can-Am Champion Porsche 917/30, will be part of the Team Penske Sunoco class at the 2020 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 5-8 at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island and the Golf Club of Amelia Island in Florida. The perfect description of the Porsche 917/30 comes without qualification or equivocation from Mark Donohue in his landmark book The Unfair … [Read more...]
Winter Marathon Rally 2020 – Report and Photos
The Winter Marathon Rally 2020 was held 23-26 January at Madonna di Campiglio in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy. A selection of more than 100 historic cars challenged this year's reliability trial that ended with the traditional arrival in Piazza Righi in Madonna di Campiglio. The 2020 edition of the Winter Marathon Rally featured a demanding 450-km race course with a total of 65 precision time trials, 13 … [Read more...]
British Icons at the Goodwood Members Meeting
Goodwood will fly the flag for two heroes of British motorsport with its high-speed demonstrations at the 2020 Goodwood Members Meeting, scheduled for March 28-29 at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex. The double Formula 1 title-winning Lotus 72 and its competitors will take centre stage for one of the weekend’s celebrated features, while the 1980s endurance racing Jaguars of Tom Walkinshaw Racing will also … [Read more...]