Keith Martin has been involved with the collector car hobby for more than 30 years. As a writer, publisher, television commentator and enthusiast, he is constantly on the go, meeting collectors and getting involved in their activities throughout the world. He is the founder and publisher of the monthly Sports Car Market and bi-monthly American Car Collector magazines, has written for the New York Times, Automobile, AutoWeek, Road & Track and other publications, is an emcee for numerous concours, and has his own show, “What’s My Car Worth,” shown on Velocity.
SCM’s beloved 1975 Ferrari 308 GT4 is on Bring A Trailer at No Reserve!
Click here for the listing.
The auction ends Thursday at 1:35 p.m.
This is a remarkable car. I bought it from Fantasy Junction a year ago, flew down to Oakland with Bradley and drove it up the coast to Portland.
While Bradley (and my co-pilot Richard Lincoln’s dog Carrera) were a little cramped in the back seats, they made it.
This Ferrari has been documented Read More
The team at SCM has created a perfect way for you to look back over 2019. The first-ever SCM Year in Review is hardbound and suitable for your coffee table.
It is 100 pages of never-published images and new articles about the year and the market from SCM regulars Donald Osborne, Simon Kidston, Philip Richter, Diane Brandon, Miles Collier, Thor Thorson, Prescott Kelly, Jeff Zurschmeide, Nick Jaynes, Pierre Hedary and yours truly.
This is an extremely limited edition. I will Read More
“What an amazing display of “A-list cars.”
That was the response of Jakob Griesen, Head of the U.S. Motoring Department and Vice President of Bonhams, as he viewed the cars entered in the first annual Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance.
Arrayed on the show field at the DragonRidge Country Club, located 18 miles from downtown Las Vegas in Henderson, Nevada, were 108 important cars from museums and private collectors.
Star display cars were the 1938 Hispano-Suiza Dubonnet Xenia from the Read More
The World of Speed Motorsports Museum celebrated motorsports personalities who have a connection to the Pacific Northwest on Saturday night.
I attended with SCMer Michael Pierce and World of Speed two-time summer program alumnus Bradley Martin.
Located just south of Portland in Wilsonville, Oregon, the World of Speed is a hub for car activities of all kinds.
It hosts a weekly Cars and Coffee. There is a different focus each Saturday, ranging from Porsches to Hot Rods to 4x4s.
This Read More
I first met Gary Bartlett at a small gathering of Americans participating in the Mille Miglia in 1992.
We were in the small town of Soragna, near Brescia, Italy. Longtime SCMer Joe Tomasetti organized the dinner.
This was before the “MM” became a bucket-list event for wealthy enthusiasts from all over the world. There were few Americans. We were strangers in a strange land as we piloted our old cars across the Italian landscape.
Our little group included Cindy Banzer and Read More
The celebrity-driven Lifestyle Weekend is emerging as a new wave of car events. I’m just returning from the inaugural Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, where the backdrop of downtown Chattanooga, a 1.5 mile flat-out time trial against the clock along the Tennessee River and various celebrity panels provided three full days of engagement for owners and enthusiasts.
In fact, the entire downtown area became one non-stop celebration of motorcars.
Just last week was the debut of Audrain’s Newport Concours and Read More
Fixing cars on the cheap never works out well.
I was in a planning meeting for the 2020 SCM 1000, and a serious question came up — how many mechanics do we need?
The 2020 SCM 1000 has a spectacular route that includes Mount St. Helens and the Oregon Coast — go to www.sportscarmarket.com/tour-registration to sign up.
We were debating how many sets of mechanics to have along on the tour. In 2018, the SCM 1000’s first year, we Read More
There was a time in the late ‘80s when I was gainfully unemployed.
I had left my job as Sales Manager at Ron Tonkin Grand Turismo and decided to make my living buying, fixing up and selling Alfa Romeos. At that time there was no shortage of non-running but not-yet-decrepit Alfas from the ‘70s lurking in garages and fields around the Pacific Northwest.
My specialty was to run ads in the “Nickel Ads” saying something like, “Are you tired of Read More
Next year’s SCM 1000 is beginning to shape up. Plans include visiting Mt. St. Helens as well as the stunning Oregon Coast — areas we haven’t explored in the previous two tours.
The dates are July 12-16, 2020. Once again, the tour will begin with participants’ cars on display in front of the Portland Art Museum in downtown Portland, just one block from the host Heathman Hotel.
One of the unique features of the SCM 1000 is its starting from Read More
For the first time in 31 years, I missed Monterey Car Week.
On the weekend before the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, I can usually be found leading a ragamuffin “Catch Me If You Can” group of sports-car fanatics on a road trip down the Pacific Coast from Portland, OR, to Carmel. It’s SCM’s annual Caravan to Concorso.
Not this year.
I continue to make measured progress from my January stroke — as a dear friend always says, “Slow and steady Read More
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