Vintage News
8/19/2010 - Gooding and Company Sells More Than $64.59 Million at Pebble Beach Auction
Pebble Beach, CA - Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, sold more than $64.59 Million** in collector cars over the weekend at its annual prestigious Pebble Beach Auctions, achieving its highest-ever recorded sales total in its Pebble Beach history.
Extraordinary results for the high-end collector car market wi... Read more...
8/19/2010 - Russo and Steele Celebrated the 10th Anniversary With Three Nights of Auction Excitement and Three World Records
Monterey, CA - With its traditional rolling preview, the online webcast, and interactive auction experience the Monterey 2010 event was once again held at the downtown Monterey Marriott Hotel August 12-14, 2010. Russo and Steele Collector Automobiles celebrated its 10th Anniversary by kicking off its three nights of auction with a cocktail reception that lef... Read more...
8/19/2010 - Mecum Sells Ex-DeLorenzo L88 Corvette for $1.2 Million at Monterey Auction
Marengo, IL - Mecum Auctions returned to Monterey for a successful second annual auction at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel & Spa on the Del Monte Golf Course, where the top sale was a rare ex-DeLorenzo 1967 Corvette L88 Roadster - one of only 20 produced and the earliest RPO-ordered L88 known to exist - that sold on the block for $1,250,000. With a... Read more...
8/19/2010 - Awards Ceremony Brings Monterey Motorsports Reunion to a Rousing Close
MONTEREY, CA As the final day of racing action concluded at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, entrants representing 13 countries and competing in more than 600 historic cars gathered to celebrate their accomplishments at the Rolex Awards Ceremony at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Sunday afternoons awards ceremony was hosted by Mike Joy from SPEED and Maz... Read more...
8/18/2010 - Bonhams Has Record-Breaking Auction at Quail Lodge
Two-day event makes a world record for Porsche and posts $18.6 million in sales.
San Francisco - Bonhams & Butterfields celebrated the 13th anniversary of its renowned motorcar auction at the sunny Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley with resounding success.
Comprising a very interesting variety and newsworthy selection of 102 cars, one airplane and one boat of whic... Read more...
8/17/2010 - RM's 2010 Sports & Classics of Monterey Event Posts $67 million in Sales
BLENHEIM, ON - RM delivered a one, two punch in Monterey this past weekend during the year's pinnacle event for the collector car hobby, posting the weeks highest auction results of $67 million in total sales with an impressive 95% of all lots sold, and clinching an unprecedented fourth Best of Show win in 10 years at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours... Read more...
8/17/2010 - John Surtees to be Honored at Goodwood Revival
50 Years Since John Surtees First Car Race
Already a multiple World Champion on two wheels, it was 50 years ago this year, in March 1960, that John Surtees began his switch to four wheels, entering a Formula Junior race at Goodwood and finishing a close second to Jim Clark.
Within a matter of months, Surtees had scored his first pole position and podium finish... Read more...
8/15/2010 - It's a Wrap from Monterey
Salinas, CA - As the sun set on the fourth and final day of racing at the 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, entrants representing 13 countries and competing in over 600 historic cars gathered to celebrate their accomplishments at the Rolex Awards Ceremony at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. No one was more proud than Graham Wallis (Cedar Glen, CA), who clai... Read more...
8/11/2010 - Worldwide Auctioneers Acquires Atlantic City Auction
AUBURN, IN - Worldwide Auctioneers, responsible for the sale of some of the worlds finest motorcars, has today confirmed its acquisition of part of the long standing Atlantic City Auction from G. Potter King, Inc. The company will assume ownership of the events premier catalogue auction, traditionally limited to a smaller number of high end automobiles. Read more...
8/10/2010 - Elkhart Lake Historic Race Circuits to Host 60th Anniversary Celebration
Elkhart Lake, WI - Sixty years ago sports cars raced around Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, ushering in a brief era of postwar, open road racing that lead to the creation of Elkhart Lake's Road America and its closed road-racing track.
The historic race circuits used for these races have been recorded on both the Wisconsin and the National Register of Historic Place... Read more...









