The road to Monterey Car Week 2022 moves on, as Buy, Sell, Hold spotlights Gooding & Company Car Specialist Hans Wurl. He and host Darin Roberge discuss Gooding’s exciting Pebble Beach offerings, a preview of the upcoming London sale, the calculated and ethic approach that Gooding takes to creating their […]
We’ve just completed our fourth SCM 1000, a thousand-mile tour for pre-1975 cars. There will be more about it in upcoming issues of SCM. But with my bags barely unpacked and the SCM cars still being put away, here are the highlights. First, riding with SCM contributor Ken Gross and […]
I played hooky from work last week and took our 1971 Jaguar E-type V12 coupe for a 150-mile drive. Our lunch destination was Skamania Lodge, the home base of the 2022 SCM 1000. It’s about 50 miles away. There are a couple of ways to get there. My co-driver, Lou […]
Buy, Sell, Hold continues down the road to Monterey Car Week 2022 as we spotlight Mecum Lead TV Analyst and Company Relations Director John Kraman. He and host Darin Roberge talk his early days with the auction juggernaut, the mega miles he travels, his most memorable Mecum moments and the […]
When we asked Somer Hooker to be the SCM Concours Ambassador, I envisioned his role as finding cars at events that deserved SCM recognition. I didn’t realize he would also start sending me links to cars for sale that he thinks might interest me. For instance, this vintage 1965 BMW […]
1998 Toyota Supra Turbo Lot 463. s/n JT2DE82A4W1003020. 22,962 miles. “3.0-L MFI Turbo DOHC, 6-speed manual, original condition.” Condition: 1. SOLD AT $304,750. Stanley J. Paine Auctioneers, 6/4/22. Recently, 13 collector-grade Toyota Supras went to auction (along with 15 other sports cars), part of a collection seized from an alleged […]
Picture this. You take your manual-transmission Jeep to the local dealer for an oil change. While you’re reading a car magazine in the waiting room, you hear a commotion. Apparently, a 19-year-old dealer employee who not only did not know how to drive a manual-transmission car, but didn’t even have […]
Dr. Frederick Anthony Simeone, whose extraordinary car collection featured many racing cars with Le Mans history, died on Saturday, June 11. He was 86. Fittingly, his last moments were spent at the hospital he regarded as a second home, as the 24-hour race was well underway. “Dr. Fred,” as many […]
One constant at Volkswagen has been the desire to move upmarket. The manufacturer whose name literally means “The People’s Car” has always set its sights on grander horizons. The Corrado is just one in a string of cars with driving performance that was overshadowed by its lack of showroom performance. […]
Buy, Sell, Hold starts down the road to Monterey Car Week 2022 with a spotlight on Broad Arrow Group’s Partner and Senior Car Specialist Alexander Weaver. He and host Darin Roberge discuss Broad Arrow’s inaugural Monterey Motorlux auction event, run down their list of exciting offerings and introduce you to […]
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