Auction News

Gooding & Company announced today more than $28 million and 97% in sales for 69 out of 71 lots sold at its annual Amelia Island Auction on Friday, March 8. This year’s superb compilation included celebrity-owned classics, high performance sports cars and sleek modern supercars, led by the top-selling, $2.75 million 1928 Bentley 4 ½…

AMELIA ISLAND, Florida (11 March, 2013) – RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, continued its run of fantastic 2013 results this past weekend with a highly successful Amelia Island, Florida, sale which saw records tumble and more than $26.8m* grossed with over 92% of all lots sold. Celebrating its…

The seventh annual Boca Raton Concours d’ Elegance presented by Mercedes-Benz USA and AutoNation raised more than $1 million for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County. Hosted for the seventh consecutive year at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, the event took place February 22-24, 2013 and featured an amazing weekend of philanthropy,…

Bonhams hit a home run on Saturday, February 23, at its inaugural motorcar auction held in conjunction with the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance on the grounds of the luxurious, seaside Boca Raton Resort & Club north of Miami.   A diverse selection of American and European motorcars, along with several contemporary models, attracted a full…

The second annual Walleye 1000 will take place Saturday and Sunday, June 8–9, 2013. This year’s route will run southeast from the Twin Cities along the Mississippi and into Wisconsin for the evening, then back into Minnesota for the return and finisher’s banquet on Sunday evening. The event is a vintage tour, more like the…

The focus of the global collector community turned to Madison, Georgia, this past week (February 15 – 16) as RM Auctions lifted the gavel on the world-famous Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum, generating more than $9.1 million in sales* with 100% of all lots sold. A true labor of love carefully amassed over more than 15…

Bob Ingram, one of North Carolina’s most influential business leaders and himself a collector of vintage automobiles, has been named honorary chairman of the inaugural Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance, to be staged in early May. Tickets will go on sale Friday, February 22 and can be purchased online at www.pinehurstconcours.com. The first-ever Concours show competition at…

The airplane featured in the seven-time Oscar-winning 1985 film Out of Africa is on its way back to the country nearly three decades later, after finding a new home in Kenya at the Bonhams auction at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, on February 7. The 1929 American Moth Corporation De Havilland 60GMW Gipsy Moth…

Artcurial‘s  Retromobile sale was a spectacular event in every sense of the word. When the hammer went down on the last lot, well after midnight, the sale in Paris had clocked up $19.5m, making it the largest ever sale of collector cars in France. This beat Artcurial’s own record set at the same event last year.…