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A Golden Age of Sports Cars
As we write this, we have just returned from the Detroit International Auto Show, and are preparing to make a quick turnaround and head to the four-auction carnival in Arizona. If one had to choose between the two places, certainly the baking he... [ read more] |
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A Collector Car Oasis
The American collector car auction year has just two seasons. One is the end-of-summer Monterey Historic extravaganza, with six months worth of activities crammed like a pkzipped computer file into 96 crazy hours. The trends we saw in Monterey b... [ read more] |
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Slick At Last
After twelve years and 144 issues, SCM has gone slick. Printing on coated stock allows us to reproduce black and white photos at a much higher level of quality, and the increased number of full-color editorial pages will enhance the market infor... [ read more] |
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Big Bear to Big Apple
From Imogene Pass, snow-covered at 13,114-feet in the Rockies, to the sea-level canyons of Manhattan, it was a busy month. First, taking a break from the world of vintage cars courtesy of Land Rover, I had the opportunity to drive a Range Rover ... [ read more] |
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A $45 Million Fireworks Display
Monterey this year was a three-day auction-block fireworks show, with 228 of 286 cars that crossed the block selling for a 79% rate and a sales total of just over $45 million. We'll have a complete report in next month's issue, but our first rea... [ read more] |
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Bonneville, Bugattis and Gruel
As you read this, I will be hurtling across the Bonneville Salt Flats in a highly modified 1991 Alfa Romeo Spider, in an attempt to set a few class Land Speed Records. Mike Besic and Craig Beilat will share the driving as we take turns flinging ... [ read more] |
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Car Collecting in the 21st Century
Isn't it time to give the Monterey weekend an official name? Let's get the folks from Pebble Beach, Concorso Italiano, the auctions and Laguna Seca together and keep them sequestered until the white smoke from the chimney indicates they've chose... [ read more] |
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An L.A. Weekend
It has long seemed strange that Los Angeles, the first metropolis in the U.S. shaped by the motorcar, and the birthplace of nearly every automotive trend from hot rods to low riders, should have a paucity of high-end automotive activities. Aucti... [ read more] |
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A Focus Group 300SL?
We've spent the last five days behind the wheel of an Oldsmobile mini-van, chasing vintage cars. As the host of a television show Martin Swig is producing about the California Mille for Speedvision, my task was to cheerily interview participants... [ read more] |
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No Longer The King
It's painful to watch once high-performing veteran athletes in the last years of their careers, as they try desperately to hold on to their departing glory. We see less of their past brilliance than of their current diminished capabilities. I th... [ read more] |
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The Never-Ending Auction
If I were running an auction company, I'd be paying more than a little attention to the proliferation of cars being sold through the Internet. While much of the hype about the Internet is admittedly overblown, nonetheless there are trends emergi... [ read more] |
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Bring on the Mosquitoes
Would you have bought it anyway?That's what we seem to be asked most frequently about our 1964 Ferrari 330 America, pulled from a barn in Butte, Montana last October.As the bills pile up, and the car remains stationary, that's a fair question.Si... [ read more] |
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They Shoot Pintos, Don't They?
Although Peter Egan at Road & Track probably doesn't pen his monthly column just to goad us into philosophical musings about the hobby we share, nonetheless he's done it again. In a recent column, he writes of stumbling across a derelict TR4 in ... [ read more] |
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When Old Cars Were New
"It was a grand time to be writing about cars," said Car and Driver's Brock Yates at the recent International Automotive Media Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was referring to the '60s and early '70s, when the horsepower race between America... [ read more] |
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A Red Egg for Christmas
Our day started innocently enough. Seven-year-old daughter Alexandra and I headed to a local swap meet in search of a pre-'55 American car to use in Martin Swig's La Carrera Nevada event. While wading through the rusting junk, a.k.a. valuable re... [ read more] |
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