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Gloriously and Completely Wrong
In our August, 2010 issue, I went out on an automotive limb and predicted that the aggregate total of the sales from the 2010 Monterey weekend would rebound from last year’s paltry $120m and reach the lofty, record-breaking plateau of $140m. T... [ read more] |
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Art Cars and Gladiators
Mix American artist Jeff Koons, the 35th anniversary of the BMW Art Car Collection, a 3-series prepped for the GT2 Class at Le Mans and a gala reception at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the result is a striking race car that reaffirm... [ read more] |
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Buy the Car, Start the Journey
There are two new members of the SCM menagerie, aka collection, representing opposite ends of the car world. The first is a 2006 Lotus Elise, the best new vintage car you can buy. The second is a 1958 Mercedes 220S, the beginning of the fabled S... [ read more] |
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Looking Into The Crystal Piston
Here are two extremes of collector car acquisition. The first is the barn find, where, wearing your "Tom Cotter Taught Me How to Buy Cars" T-shirt, you slog through the backwoods of the (usually southern) countryside, until you see the back ... [ read more] |
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Happy Days are Here Again
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11. A direct consequence of that was the collapse of the collector car market. For instance, Daytonas, the poster children of the Ferrari market, fell almost overnight from their Augus... [ read more] |
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Buckets of Fun
"Not all who wander are lost." That's a fitting description of the day I spent trolling for treasure at the Portland Swap Meet. The largest event of this type on the West Coast, it has over 4,200 vendor booths and attracts more than 50,000 g... [ read more] |
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March Madness
I've just returned from a sensory overload collector car experience in the Sunshine State. Somewhere between RM's BMW 600 "limousine," Gooding's Alfa 2000 spider, Sam and Emily Mann's Mercedes 540K Special roadster, and the Collier ex-Martin... [ read more] |
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The Market Walks Tall
Two years ago, the art market had cratered, with both Sotheby's and Christie's suffering huge year-over-year declines in their annual New York sales.But on February 3, the market spoke with an authoritative voice, as "Walking Man I," a life-... [ read more] |
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Government-Created Collectibles
At every car club meeting, gray-haired elders debate the future of car collecting. They wonder if the current generation will wean itself from texting and playing World of Warcraft long enough to learn to use a Uni-Syn to balance their SU ca... [ read more] |
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Pleasure and Punishment, Collector Car Style
With this February issue, we are now well into the 22nd year of Sports Car Market.Twenty-two is my lucky number. My birthday falls on the 22nd, and my race cars have always been numbered 22. When we first started SCM in our basement, as the ... [ read more] |
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Five Steps to Smart Collecting
In the collector car world, January is Arizona time. Last year, in an economic atmosphere that seemed considerably more bleak, 1,726 cars went to new owners, and $133m changed hands.This year, I predict we'll see a slight uptick in sales, pe... [ read more] |
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Quirky Trumps Practical
For the past three months, I've managed to use the SCM 1964 Volvo 544 as my primary family car, and as my daily driver. I've put just over 2,000 miles on it. In September, my wife Wendie and I and our two-year-old Bradley piled into it for t... [ read more] |
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Steady as She Goes
Weighed against last year's drop in stocks, housing prices or contemporary art, 14% seems inconsequential
Every week, we send out the "SCM Insider" email, chock full of breaking news, auction results, select videos, and a read... [ read more] |
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Assisted Suicide, Clunker Style
Over the next few months, nearly 750,000 clunkers are going to be scrapped. Not dismantled, mind you, but smashed and melted into their base, formative materials.Whether or not this is good government policy we'll leave to our friends at The... [ read more] |
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Pebble Beach, 2020
Each year, we call this our "Pebble Beach" issue. We wrap it up about one month before the Monterey week, and through the coordination of our printer and the trucking companies, copies magically appear at nearly every Monterey venue, from th... [ read more] |
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