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 →
The 2013 version of the North American International Auto Show promises to be informative and more serious than many of the earlier automotive extravaganzas at Cobo Center in Detroit. It also had plenty of show-offs that could easily be classic cars in the future. The numbers of hybrids and other alternative-fuel vehicles continue to grow … Continue Reading →
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Love notes from visitors posted on a bulletin board read: “I love Chrysler, I love this museum!!! Please keep it”; “Mopar or no car,” and “R.I.P. Chrysler. . .You will be missed.” Chrysler is not dying, but the Walter P. Chrysler Museum has closed its doors to the public. Its last … Continue Reading →
AUBURN, Ind. — Battle-hardened historic military vehicles and war memorabilia went on the auction block here Dec. 8 as the National Military History Center continued the fight to pay off the National Military History Museum mortgage. Some 80 half- and full-track vehicles, command cars, landing craft, tractors and motorcycles, all camouflaged, soiled and wearing their … Continue Reading →