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Predilections and Predictions
July is an oddly quiet month in the collector car world. While there are auctions going on, vintage car shamans are still picking apart the results of the RM Maranello ($28.4m), Bonhams Monaco ($6.2m), and Mecum Indy ($33.6m) sales.And throu... [ read more] |
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Something Old, Something New
It's been nearly ten years since I last drove in the California Mille. Dodge was the primary sponsor then, and I enjoyed the Northern California countryside from behind the wheel of a Viper.After growing up driving Alfas, with their puny 4-c... [ read more] |
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From Occupation to Recreation
The Grays Harbor Indoor Professional Rodeo is a three-day event, and includes Bronc Riding, Bull Riding, Calf Roping, Breakaway Roping, Steer Wrestling, Team Roping, Barrel Racing, and more.My wife's father has a race-engine shop outside Elm... [ read more] |
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Far From the Madding Crowd
I propose we take a break from the constant bric-a-brac of the market. At least for a few days, let's transport ourselves back to a simpler era, when the fundamental question wasn't how much your motorcar was worth, but whether it could actu... [ read more] |
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The New Market
Since the end of the Scottsdale auctions, the flow of emails, letters, and phone calls has been relentless. Half are shrill diatribes, demanding that SCM support the market. Any description of prices as falling, or buyers being cautious, is ... [ read more] |
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One Fine Day
Sometimes you just need a break. So last Saturday, we pulled out the 1965 Alfa Giulia Spider Veloce and the 2000 Boxster S. SCM Legal Analyst John Draneas and wife Carlyn fired up their Lotus Elise (or would have had it actually started; mor... [ read more] |
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"As on a Darkling Plain."
If ever we needed a respite from being pummeled by bad news, it is now. Scarcely a day goes by without a headline about an investment firm failing, a newspaper declaring bankruptcy, or a car company down to its last few billion dollars.The D... [ read more] |
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All That's Gold Still Glitters
We've had quite a run-up in the past few years, so a modest correction will still leave most collectors far ahead of where they were in 2004
At SCM, we sometimes feel like we are in a small spotter's ship, stationed in the mid... [ read more] |
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Global Economics and Local Tomfoolery
The headlines have been relentless. "Dow plunges another 600 points." "Consumer confidence slips again." "Banks in every country facing liquidation."Those of us who have been around the collector car market for a while can't help but think o... [ read more] |
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Gazing Into the Crystal Piston
The continued buoyancy of the market at the top end is proof that America has the largest number of wealthy people of any nation in the world
The Monterey vintage week takes up about four months of every year. There are two mo... [ read more] |
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Just Be Glad It Runs
The cockpit swathed us in leather-trimmed functionality; ancillary systems like heating and coolant temperature control were just afterthoughts
"Have you noticed the oil streak that runs across the golf course and ends up unde... [ read more] |
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SCM at 20-Now a Survivor®
In 1988, I had just finished a stint as a sales manager for Ferrari dealer Ron Tonkin at his Portland Gran Turismo store, and was beginning to sell collector cars, by the container-full, to the then-hot European market. While at the GT store... [ read more] |
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Do You Know the Way to Monterey?
The Insider's Seminar is the one time each year that SCMers can come together to discuss the state of the market and the trends to come
More than 20 years have passed since my first vintage-car-themed Monterey visit. The tale ... [ read more] |
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Cobras, Cobras Everywhere
"My brother and I just wanted to have a car that would always be the fastest at a stoplight drag race, and it has been"
Driving a 427 Cobra with sidepipes and an open exhaust is a ticket to be the badboy you always dreamed of ... [ read more] |
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The Shadow of the Internet
It's a miserable, wet, 45-degree day in Portland as I compose this. And for the first time in a decade, I have missed the 44th annual Always-in-April Portland Swap Meet.Billed as the largest event of its kind west of the Mississippi River, i... [ read more] |
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