SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If you are of a certain age, you may remember a television series entitled, “The Naked City.” On the air from 1958-63, the program used a docu-drama format — commonplace now, groundbreaking then — to follow the work of a group of supposedly fictional New York City police detectives. Car guys (and … Continue Reading →
PHOENIX — Like so many other boys of my generation, I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes (“giddy up, giddy up 409″) and when I had enough of them I’d spend them on an AMT or Revell model car kit. Except for the tires, the pieces in the kits were made of plastic. … Continue Reading →
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A couple of classic cars selling for more than half-a-million dollars each and total sales of more than $17.5 million were not the big news this year at the 13th annual Sports and Muscle auction staged by Russo and Steele. The big news was the announcement that the company will host two … Continue Reading →
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. — At the recent Gooding & Company classic car auction in Scottsdale, a 1957 Maserati 150 GT Spider sold for slightly more than $3 million. Here, just a few miles to the northeast, Mitch Silver sold 209 vehicles for a total of $2.8 million. “I look at the sales that grab the … Continue Reading →
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale classic car auction — the recent 2013 event was the 42nd annual — has earned its reputation as the world’s greatest collector car event, annually offering more than one thousand vehicles for sale in a state fair-like environment that includes test drives in some of Detroit’s newest high-performance cars and … Continue Reading →
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In 1956, John Jang spent $3,000 to buy a new Porsche roadster. But just a month later, he was so taken with the new Lancia Aurelia B24S Spider America he saw at his favorite foreign car dealership in San Francisco that he traded his Porsche and added in nearly its value in … Continue Reading →
Rob Myers was pretty much a kid when he started restoring old cars in a small garage in Blenheim, about 65 miles east of Windsor. But he quickly showed skill.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Bonhams, the Britain-based global auction company known for its fine art and other sales, staged its first event as part of the Arizona classic car auction week in 2012, but sold only 40 vehicles at an event that generated less than $6 million in sales. Undaunted, Bonhams returned to Arizona Auction Week … Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — It used to be that the Detroit and Los Angeles auto shows took place at the same time early each New Year. While that may not seem a problem for show goers living in either the Motor City or the home of American car culture, it was a huge headache for the … Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Southern California may be the hotbed of American car culture, but it needed Detroit to supply the raw materials — four-wheeled variety — that it turned into custom cars for movie stars and into hot rods for racing on dry lakes and drag strips. Among those car crazy Southern Californians was Robert … Continue Reading →