A few months ago, my son Bradley turned 15. He passed the written test and then I signed him up for lessons for street driving from a professional. In the teacher’s Honda CR-V, he had several sessions navigating local streets, and a couple of stints on freeways. Now it was […]
This week, Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight focuses on Cobra Experience Managing Director Emily Lambert. Emily and host Darin Roberge discuss the Cobra Experience’s inception, the incredible array of significant vehicles, Shelby production items and memorabilia on display, their restoration program and how you can put a piece of the Cobra […]
What do you think the ideal cutoff date for a vintage tour should be? Or should there be one at all? The cutoff for the SCM 1000 is 1974. We chose that year as stringent smog and safety regulations began to take effect on US cars in 1975, altering the […]
Amelia Island 2023 is here! This week, on a special presentation of Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, SCM Contributor Jeff Trepel sits down to cover all things Amelia. He and host Darin Roberge talk collections, trends, Amelia’s potential market impact and analyze all the upcoming auction catalogs. WATCH ON YOUTUBE AND […]
Over the last two weeks, I’ve begun telling the story of the newest addition to the SCM fleet. I bought a 1975 911 S Sportomatic from the Hershey swap meet corral last October. The car was represented as having 47,000 original miles. It was originally purchased from Holbert Porsche in […]
Amelia Island is almost here! On this week’s episode of Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, RM Sotheby’s Brad Philips returns to recap Arizona and Paris results, talk exclusive sealed bid opportunities and run down their upcoming Amelia Island auction offerings. NOW AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS Join us every Monday […]
Last week we described how we ended up buying a 1975 Porsche 911 S Sportomatic offered for sale at the Hershey Swap Meet – while sitting at our desk in Portland, Oregon. In a “Love or Hate It” ‘70s Bahama Yellow (called Desert Beige by Porsche that year) it was […]
The ZR-1 debuted after the C4 Corvette had already been on the market for six model years. Chevrolet’s new “King of the Hill” took its name from the race-spec 1970–72 Corvette ZR1 (a rarity, with only 53 built). It was both a nod to the past and an attempt to […]
Among the many qualities that confer value upon a collector car, none is as important — or open to dispute — as provenance. The term refers to evidence that a vehicle is what a seller claims it is, and that any notable history of the car can be proven to […]
The 2023 auction season kicked off with big January sales in Florida and Arizona. We counted a total of 5,394 collector cars sold by Barrett-Jackson, Bonhams, MAG Auctions, Mecum Auctions and RM Sotheby’s. (We’ll have full results and analysis in next month’s issue.) What struck me as we watched all […]