Effingham, IL – During the first weekend in February some of the automotive world’s top aftermarket suppliers gathered in Effingham, Illinois to attend Mid America Motorworks’ second annual M-Curve Quality Supplier Summit. This two day event played host to seventeen suppliers from all around the United States. While all those […]
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Hagerty Launches Youth Model-Building Contest at Amelia Island
Traverse City, MI. February 2008 –-Do you remember spending hours assembling, gluing, custom-painting and finally applying the decals to a Revell or AMT die-cast model of your favorite car as a kid? How about the pride you felt when you completed it and envisioned yourself in the driver’s seat of […]
H&H Successful at Cheltenham Racecourse
H&H’s third visit to The Centaur Complex at Cheltenham Racecourse on the 26th and 27th of February was rewarded with a number of new world auction and in-house records not to mention a gross sale total of over £1.5million. Benefiting from fine weather and held in conjunction with www.liveauctioneers.com the […]
Russo and Steele Implements All Reserve Format
Scottsdale, AZ. March 4, 2000 –-Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions has officially announced it is changing its auction format to an ALL RESERVE sale. By employing this type of change it will enable Russo and Steele to best serve and maintain the high level of service and integrity that […]
Recession-Proof Muscle Cars
By Colin Comer Last year’s Arizona auctions proved that we were indeed due for a well deserved and most predictable “adjustment” in many segments of the muscle car market. As such, 2007 brought us more headlines about the muscle car market “crash” than those of Britney Spears’s need for psychiatric […]
Sculptor Tony Sikorski to Exhibit Latest Masterpieces at the 2008 Amelia Island Concours
Amelia Island, FL. February 29, 2008 –-Tony Sikorski, a celebrated sculptor and member of the Automotive Fine Arts Society, will highlight “Duesenberg Straight 8,” along with more of his latest masterpieces, at the 2008 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 7-9, 2008, in Amelia Island, Fla. The 20” x 4.5” […]
Paul Frère Dies at 91
SCM has learned that longtime automobile journalist and Le Mans winner Paul Frère died on Saturday, February 23, in Nice, France. He was 91. Frère’s career in motorsport spanned eleven Formula One races throughout the 1950s, as well as many stints in sports cars, with eight trips to Le Mans, […]
Vehicles From HBO’S “The Sopranos” to Hit the Block at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach
West palm Beach, FL. February 28, 2008 –-Cars and SUVs driven by the famous TV mobsters on “The Sopranos” will be sold at No Reserve during the 6th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event on March 26-30, 2008, in West Palm Beach, Fla. A total of eight vehicles from the award […]
Hod Rod Builder Boyd Coddington Dies at 63
By Jeff Wilson, Associated Press Writer Los Angeles, February 27, 2008 — Car-building legend Boyd Coddington, whose testosterone-injected cable TV reality show “American Hot Rod” introduced the nation to the West Coast hot rod guru, has died. He was 63. Coddington died at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in suburban Whittier at […]
Iconic Shelby Mustang to be Sold at Melbourne Auction
Shelby GT 500 FastbackOn Thursday 13 March 2008 at 6pm (E.S.T) Bonhams & Goodman will hold a sale of collectors’ cars and automobilia in Melbourne. The sale has been strategically timed to capitalize on ‘Grand Prix fever’ which will be in full force as Melbourne gears up for the important […]