Auction News
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H&H Celebrates 100th Auction with 91% Sell-Through
BUXTON, ENGLAND (April 22, 2009) – Although the combined gross across the motorcars, motorcycles, automobilia, bicycles, and registration plates of over $2 million was by no means a house record, H&H’s 100th auction on April 16 will nevertheless go down in company history thanks to the fantastic saleroom atmosphere and bumper attendance levels it generated.…
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Classic Cars Keep Pace with Spitfire at Bonhams Hendon
LONDON, ENGLAND (April 22, 2009) – Bonhams’s sale of an airworthy two-seater Vickers-Supermarine MkIX Spitfire aircraft for $2.5m on 20th April at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London, did not overshadow the cars in the same sale which enjoyed a virtual sell-out, raising the sale total of cars and aircraft to $5.4m Top lot amongst the…
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Cooper Brothers Bike Collection Emerges in Warwickshire
LONDON, ENGLAND (April 21, 2009) – The Cooper Collection of motorcycles mothballed for 30 years will be auctioned by Bonhams on June 20th at their new premises at Kidlington, near Oxford, in association with the world famous VMCC Banbury Run. The bikes range in estimates from $150 to $15,000 and will be sold without reserve.…
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Choose AFAS Work for Father’s Day
TEMECULA, CALIFORNIA (April 21, 2009) – Automotive Fine Arts Society members are offering a select group of paintings and sculptures for purchase in time for Father’s Day on June 21, 2009. The artwork includes original pieces and limited edition prints that appeal to the male automotive enthusiast and are available exclusively through the artists. The…
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B&G to Sell Former Maharajah’s Horch
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – (April 21, 2009) – A historic Horch, part of the Peter Briggs Collector’s Car Collection, will be sold by Bonhams & Goodman in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, May 3. This fascinating car was presented to Robert Gove of Victoria from the Maharajah of Bharatpur in the 1930s in exchange for horses. The…
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Mid America Motorworks to host NCM Caravan Kick Off
Effingham, IL – Over 1,000 Corvettes will gather on the Mid America Motorworks corporate campus September 2 and 3, 2009 as they caravan toward the National Corvette Museum’s 15th Anniversary Celebration in Bowling Green, KY. The Caravan Kick-Off event will feature Corvettes and their owners from over fifteen states and nine regions of the United…
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Spitfire Soars to $2.5m at Bonhams Hendon
LONDON, ENGLAND (April 20, 2009) – Bonhams sold an airworthy two-seater Vickers-Supermarine MkIX Spitfire aircraft for $2,527,784 today, 20th April, at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London. The buyer was Steven Brooks, a British financier and polar adventurer. The Spitfire was sold during a Bonhams Collectors Motor Car sale which made a total of $5.5m with…
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Keels & Wheels to Display
HOUSTON, TEXAS (April 20, 2009) – On May 2-3, 2009, the largest gathering of classic cars and wooden boats in the United States will be on display at the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, Texas, for the 14th Annual Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance. In honor of this year’s Event Grand Marshall, Carroll Shelby, a…
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Serial Number 1 Pony Cars First on the Block at WWG Houston
AUBURN, INDIANA (April 20, 2009) – Worldwide Auctioneers plans to launch its fifth annual Houston Classic Auction with a bang, announcing today that a pair of highly sought after first-edition Pony cars will be first to go under the hammer. The 1970 Chevrolet Camaro offered as Lot number 1 will be none other than serial…
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Ferrari Le Mans Star Just Added to RM Maranello Lineup
LONDON, ENGLAND (April 20, 2009) – RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will lift the gavel on an exceptional, race-bred 1967 Ferrari 330 P4 (chassis number 0858) when the highly anticipated Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event returns to Maranello, Italy next month. Regarded as one of the greatest sports-racing prototypes ever designed by Ferrari, the…