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The Future as History
As I look at these pictures of my children, Alexandra and Bradley, taken 16 years apart, I wonder what kind of automotive world they will inherit.We Baby Boomers are the last generation to experience raw, unregulated cars as daily drivers; t... [ read more] |
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The End of No Reserve
At times, being at the epicenter of a collector car weekend is like sitting in a command bunker. In Scottsdale, SCM's boots-on-the-ground team included nearly 20 market analysts, staff, and support crew.During the weekend, they fanned out to... [ read more] |
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The Swede Meets the Italian
If I worked in a regular job, I would surely be fired for sendingand receiving so many links about collectible cars for sale
First, I'd like to thank SCMers Craig Wood, of Brighton, Michigan, and Donald Sanders, of Durham, Nor... [ read more] |
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Leaving 1990 in the Dust
In my 20 years of writing about the market, I have never seen high-end cars accelerate in value like this
For the first time in two decades, we're considering pulling a tattered banner out of storage and hoisting it above SCM ... [ read more] |
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Mucking out the SCM Stable
We began to wonder if the BMW had had some conjugal visits with our failure-prone Fiat 2100 and been the recipient of its DNA
You might think that with all the transactions we track, and all the conversations we have, the prin... [ read more] |
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On the Road Again
If you're reading SCM, chances are you're an enthusiast. Your friends may uncork a vintage Barolo and marvel over the bouquet; you'd just as soon go out to the garage and inhale the gasoline and oil vapors that constantly seep out of a vintage c... [ read more] |
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Why Market-Driven Beauty is Only Skin Deep
Buckle your seatbelts and tighten your shoulder harnesses. Based on the results from Monterey, the collector car market is in the midst of a wild and woolly ride, with little way of predicting the crests and valleys in the year ahead.There are a... [ read more] |
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Factory Fake or Certified Authentic?
As the market continues to surge toward all-time highs and surpass the prices made 18 years ago, questions about authenticity and provenance continue to be one of the keys to valuation. As we noted in our review of RM's blockbuster $45m Maranell... [ read more] |
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Time to Buy, Sell, or Hold?
It's been nearly 25 years since we've seen prices like this in the sports and exotic market. As nearly everyone knows by now, RM came within just $500,000 of setting the record for the most expensive car ever to sell at auction at their Maranell... [ read more] |
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Jurassic Swamp Meet
Fifty years from now the Petersen Museum may feature a diorama dedicated to the social gathering once known as an "automotive swap meet." Young children will tug on their daddy's shirtsleeves and ask, "Thousands of people just showed up and walk... [ read more] |
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Old Car Tricks
"Push? We're going to push the car?"It was a balmy day in the Pacific Northwest, so I had decided to take out our orange and black 1979 Triumph Spitfire. My 15-year-old daughter, Alex, was pleased with my choice, as the previous owner had put la... [ read more] |
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A Six Pack of Sense and Sensibility
We at SCM have long maintained that a well-filled garage is like a well-stocked wine cellar. Just as different times of day, different events, and different meals call for different pourings, so, too, do different motoring adventures require dif... [ read more] |
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Somebody Stop Me!
Perhaps SCM should be in the soft adventure business. But rather than offering a chance to parachute off mountaintops attached to a safety-line, or fly a Russian Mig with an instructor who will keep you from nosing into the ground, we have somet... [ read more] |
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A Steering Wheel as the Circle of Life
"How did you get started with cars?" is a question I'm often asked.While I have been fortunate to have a variety of careers and occupational passions, cars and machinery came first.My earliest memories of the mysteries of the internal combustion... [ read more] |
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Riding High
Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and other times it leads to nothing but trouble.Our 1978 911SC is a perfect case in point. Relatively pampered, in mostly original paint, and with 177,000 miles on it when it joined our stable last year, it rode low... [ read more] |
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