Sports Car Market Publisher Keith Martin and SCM Contributor and German car authority Philip Richter look at the 1955 – 1963 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL. Built as a more affordable alternative to the 300 SL, the Mercedes-Benz 190 SL shares DNA with its legendary sibling, but is it worth owning today? […]
Month: March 2021
Keith’s Blog: The Modern-Day Three-Car Collection: AMG, Z4 and R8
I took the SCM 2004 Mercedes AMG SL 55 out for a 100-mile drive through the Oregon wine country last Saturday. It was a glorious early-spring sunny day. I spent most of the time with the top down. The most attractive feature of this 500-hp machine continues to be its […]
Having their moment in the sun, the 1989 to 2001 Mercedes-Benz R129 (SL 280, 300 SL, SL 320, 500 SL, SL 500, 600SL, SL 600) takes off in the market.
SCM Contributor and German car authority Philip Richter examines the Mercedes-Benz R129 SL Class(SL 280, 300 SL, SL 320, 500 SL, SL 500, 600SL, SL 600) to see what’s driving their increasing popularity in the market. One of Bruno Sacco’s most timeless designs and with everything from an inline and […]
Keith’s Blog: Join the SCM Caravan to Concorso
We are currently planning our annual informal tour down the coasts of Oregon and California to Monterey. Anyone is welcome to join, although cars with at least a pretension of sportiness are preferred. Event stickers and SCM hats will be provided. At the moment, our plans call for me to […]
Civic Discourse
1995 Honda Civic Si hatchback Lot #43062. S/N 2HGEH3386SH503310. 84,000 miles shown. “1.6-liter D16Z6 VTEC inline 4, 5-speed manual transaxle, Milano Red exterior, gray cloth interior, power-operated sunroof, air conditioning, factory cassette stereo.” Condition: 1-. SOLD AT $18,900, Bring a Trailer, 2/11/2021. For two decades now, the fifth-gen Civic hatchback […]
VIN-dicated
CARFAX was founded in 1984 in Columbia, MO, by a computer professional named Ewin Barnett III. He worked together with Robert Daniel Clark, an accountant from Huntingdon, PA. It started with a database of 10,000 records, but the company was soon getting reports from all 50 states. CARFAX is now […]
Will Your Replica Be Destroyed?
The collector-car world was recently stunned by the news that a Swedish court awarded judgment to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) in its copyright infringement case against Karl and Ann-Christine Magnusson. The court ruled that the Magnussons, who were in the process of building a C-type replica, had violated JLR’s copyright […]
My Dream Come True? Or Was it a Nightmare?
My “poster car” growing up was a silver 2002 Porsche 996. It was actually on a calendar on my bedroom wall. I remember hitting that month and never flipping to the next. Perhaps it was because my dad is a Porsche enthusiast, or maybe that car was just special. In […]
Fourth-by-Four
It’s official: Volkswagen will stop sales of its iconic hatchback, the Golf, in the American market this year. The Golf debuted in the United States as the econobox Rabbit in 1975 and has served as the base model for the higher-performance GTI since 1982. That the GTI and its even […]
A Lucky Rabbit! A 1985 Volkswagen Cabriolet Wolfsburg Edition Time Capsule sells for $70,000!
Former GM executive Lowell Paddock and SCM Contributor Philip Richter discuss a 1985 Volkswagen Cabriolet Wolfsburg Edition that sold on Bring a Trailer for $70,000. With 39 miles on the odometer and all the options, this sterling Flash Silver example brought home the big dollars. What allowed this Cabriolet to […]