Just weeks ago I was toodling through the Arizona desert, sneaking away from the auctions for a quick drive to Sedona in a lovely dark blue Aston Martin V8 Vantage. I was seeking a brief respite from the ceaseless shattering of world records at the auctions being held, where one […]
As you know, we’ve been wrestling for a few months to install a rear-seat shoulder harness in the 1967 GTV, so that we could put 5-year-old Bradley there in his booster seat. Early on we gave up on an inertia reel, opting instead for a belt that adjusted both at […]
See You in Paris First, it’s not too late to call your pilots and get your Bombardier fired up for the trip to Paris. The annual SCM reception at Retromobile will be held on Wednesday, from 5:30 to 7:00. Join me, Wendie, Alex and sponsors Donald Osborne and Ed Fallon […]
It may be 45 degrees and raining outside, but there are stirrings in the SCM garage.
Last Saturday, SCM’s SEO guru Michael Cottam and his six-year-old son Benjamin joined me and five-year-old Bradley for a quick shakedown of our 1973 Volvo 1800ES and our 1972 BMW 2002tii.
This was the first time in five years I wasn’t shooting episodes of What’s My Car Worth? in Arizona (the Velocity Channel funding for the next season will be released in a few weeks). Consequently, rather than being trapped at a single auction company from 8 am to 8 pm every day, I had the chance to be a civilian and get to nearly every auction, kick tires, see friends and generally enjoy the pleasant weather.
I remember clearly when I decided to launch the Alfa Romeo Market Letter. It was 1988, and the market was beginning to heat up. I had recently left my day job as a manager of Ron Tonkin’s Gran Turismo in Portland, OR, where I sold Ferraris, Maseratis, Alfa Romeos and […]
It’s 48 degrees and raining in Portland, so I’m looking forward to the 7th Annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance, happening February 22–24, where I’ll be Grand Marshal. I will join Chief Judge Dr. Paul Sable, one of the founders of “The Elegance at Hershey;” Honorary Chair Mike Jackson, Chairman and […]
As this is our December issue, it’s the right time to reflect on the past 12 months, and to project forward into 2013.
Sports Car Market is by design a reflective magazine; we report on sales and events that have happened, and analyze and comment on them. Our world is large and all-inclusive, as we imagine yours is. You’ll find us at the most exclusive catalog auctions — as well as sales where decrepit trucks are sold by the pound.
What all of us at SCM — subscribers, contributors and staff — have in common is a delight in old cars, from their brilliant styling to their misguided mechanicals. We glory in their imperfections, we swap tales about how they let us down, and we believe that after reading Thor Thorson’s latest encomium about an Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 or Porsche 917/10, we have become instant experts on the subject — of course!
But SCM’s primary focus has always been the market. What’s selling, where, for how much, and why. We continue to be the only magazine that offers firsthand reports from trained analysts, with exclusive photos, chassis numbers, hands-on descriptions and informed analysis. You can expect even more in the future, as our Platinum database is revved up to accept multiple photos, videos and direct feeds from the auction houses for upcoming sales.
Wouldn’t you like 680 hp under your tree this Christmas? ACC is ready for its next project, and the 1963 Dodge 440 street-legal drag car is up for sale. It sports a 500-ci 680-hp all-aluminum Hemi and runs high 10s in the quarter at 123 mph. We’ve long been fans of […]
By now you’re aware that SCM has more cars than it does garage slots, and that we have to trim the fleet.
Sadly, each car was specifically chosen as an excellent example of the model, and we hate to see them go.
Our 1982 633 CSi is for sale. It has just 94,000 carefully maintained miles, and I just spent $1,500 having a major service done at Boyd Motor Werks, a well-known BMW specialist shop in Portland.
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