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No Reserve! That’s not a misprint.
Several AMC fans may know the name Steve Green. He was - in short words - a big fan of the independent badge, and amassed a huge collection over the years. Unfortunately, health concerns has forced the sale of his collection: one Lincoln, four Chryslers and 47 AMC vehicles - [...]
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Photo by James Mann
Two years ago, Christie’s left the car auction world in a blaze of ignomy when they were forced to withdraw a heavily-promoted Auto-Union from their auction at Rétromobile. At the time, there was talk it could break the $10 million mark to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Then, things [...]
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* If you’re a fan at all of front-engined dragsters, the We Did It For Love guys have a photo tour you’ll drool over: They visited Bucky Austin’s collection in Tacoma, Washington, a couple years ago, and marveled at both the restored dragsters (and drag cars) in the front showroom as well as the yet-unrestored [...]
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Car collectors today still occasionally talk about the auctions of Bill Harrah’s collection back in the 1980s: It was the largest such event any of them had ever seen, or will ever see. A similar event now promises to play out in the antique car toy scene with the upcoming auctions of Donald Kaufman’s collection.
Never [...]
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Car fun. Not the creepy kind. God, I hope not. Innocent until proven guilty. And so forth.
So the King of Pop is in, shall we say, tremendous financial trouble, and last fall Michael Jackson lost ownership of his vast Santa Barbara-area fantasyland, Neverland Ranch. With it, a giant hoard of mostly adolescent treasures of the [...]
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The Tour de France isn’t just the single greatest athletic event in the world, it’s also a spectacle to rival Le Mans or a Crimson Tide tailgate party. For generations, advertisers have capitalized on the presence of millions of spectators lining 2,000 kilometers of French roads to hold a rolling advertising carnival.
But unless you’re there, [...]
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What’s your domestic racing preference: open wheels or full-body stockers? It might stand to reason that, depending upon your answer, you will certainly prefer owning a factory assembled replica pace car from one form of racing or the other; rarely both. Mecum’s Kissimmee auction in January offered plenty of opportunity for you to obtain one [...]
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When reading about the early motor races in American, everybody knows of the Vanderbilt Cup, the Glidden tours and the races at Bridgehampton. Relatively very little is made of Philadelphia’s 200-mile Fairmount Park Motor Race, organized by the Quaker City Motor Club for the city’s annual Founder’s Week from 1908 to 1911. That’s probably because, [...]
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