I’ve written many times that old cars are not safe in modern traffic. It’s one thing to type that out. It’s another to experience it. Sunday I took the SCM Volvo out for a drive, through Portland, onto the freeway and back. As old cars go, the Volvo is relatively […]
If you’re interested in Bugattis, this is your spring for shopping. You’ll need to open up that checkbook, however, to get involved in any real amount of fun. A few weeks ago, Gooding & Company announced the star car to their Passion of a Lifetime sale coming to London on […]
Recently, Editor Pickering and I discussed a simple question that I think may have far-reaching market implications. We’re constantly scouring market results in an effort to create a high-level view of the American collector-car market as a whole, and we got on the topic of cars from the 1980s and […]
Change is a constant in the collector-car world. From what car people are buying and selling through how much those cars and trucks achieve when they sell, the market is always in flux. This is ACC’s 50th issue. The magazine has come a long way since our first issue back […]
Gooding & Company Lot 62: 1927 Ford Model T Custom Dry-Lakes Roadster VIN T14884116. Sold at $11,200 This one took a lot of folks by surprise. The auction house guesstimate was $20k to $25k. It was a good-quality build, even if it was in off-the-shelf project-leftovers territory. With a fuel-injected Chevy 305 […]
The barn find trend may be dead, and as some of you noted last week, maybe that’s a good thing. The trouble with barn finds, at least generally, is how expensive they really are. They are thrilling to some, at least in the moment when one is on the block, […]
Stephen Serio is the President of Aston Martin of New England, Lotus Motorsports, and The Bond Group. He started his business in 1987 specializing in exporting right-hand drive 1960s Aston Martins back to the UK. Today, selling new Aston Martins and Lotus cars is about 10% of what he really […]
A matching-numbers 1958 BMW 507 Series II roadster — part of the Poster Car Collection — was high sale at €1,996,250 ($2,225,819) at RM Sotheby’s Paris Auction on February 6 at Place Vauban. Total sales were €16.5 million ($18.4 million), with 75 percent of the lots sold. A 1964 Porsche […]
When the SCM 1965 Volvo 122S automatic arrived last week, SCMer Dean Koehler arrived to inspect the car. Dean is the founder and the self-appointed Volvocrat of the PDX Round Fender Volvo Club. He’s also the iron-fisted content arbiter of the PDX Volvos FB page. As he walked around “ELF” […]
Trends come and go. Sometimes this is a good thing. Anybody miss their custom Van from 1977? One thing I saw less of this year, at least in Scottsdale, were barn-find cars. Sure, there were dusty originals on offer at places like Barrett-Jackson, but they were typically OE cars with […]
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