December 2025
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Keith’s Blog: Resolutions and Conundrums
It’s that time of year when we sit down and try to wrestle with the way we collect and use our cars. For me, there’s a new topic on the list: I want my cars to be easy to drive. I’ve driven cars from a replica Type 35 Bugatti to a 1947 Siata. I’ve driven…
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Keith’s Blog: Winter Storage, Part II
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions in response to last week’s blog about storing your car in the winter. Here are a few more thoughts. First of all, I prefer to always store my convertibles with the top up and stretched, especially the rear plastic window. If the stop is stored folded, I believe…
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Caught in a Crunch
It was an eventful week at Mecum Auctions’ recent four-day Dallas/Fort Worth sale — hundreds of cars sold and only four crashed! The accident happened in the post-sale staging area, where three of the cars were parked. A driver, presumably a Mecum employee, was moving a 1958 Willys resto-mod pickup. The truck sported a 5.7-liter…
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The Goldilocks Era
Humans are fickle creatures. We quickly go from loving something to hating it, and vice versa. When Porsche released the 964-series 911 in 1989, initial reactions were not universally positive. Many of the 911-faithful said it was too big, too bulbous and not in keeping with the Porsche ethos of small and light. Those were…
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Half-Price Sports Cars
I was sure my 1966 Alfa Romeo Duetto would bring $75,000 — if not more — when I listed it on Bring a Trailer in July 2024. It had a perfect pedigree, had never, ever been rusty, and came with a rare, restored factory steel hard top. A red Duetto had always been my dream car,…
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Redeeming Porsche’s Black Sheep
The 996-series Porsche 911 Carrera is the most-affordable 911 — and it always will be. Long billed as the Next Big Thing in the Porsche market for a good decade now, values of the 1999–2004 Carrera swelled, dipped and stagnated while its pre- and post-contemporaries have not. That’s a shame because, much like with sex…
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Keith’s Blog: Charges, Flushes and Lubes
What’s your holiday wish list for your classic car? I sometimes imagine what it would be like to have a wish-fulfiller to tend to my cars. I store three classics at my condo, the 1975 Porsche 911S, the 1971 Jaguar E-type V12 and the 1991 Alfa Romeo Spider S4. They all have analog clocks that…
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Keith’s Blog: The Pin is Back in the Grenade
The first three years of owning our 1975 Porsche 911 Sportomatic were a mixture of agony and ecstasy. When we bought it, the ad on the car said it needed nothing, had A/C, and “runs 100%.” The car was nearly 3,000 miles from Portland, in Pennsylvania at the Hershey Swap Meet Car Corral. So there…