Blogs
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Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #19 – Hans Wurl – Car Specialist at Gooding & Company
The road to Monterey Car Week 2022 moves on, as Buy, Sell, Hold spotlights Gooding & Company Car Specialist Hans Wurl. He and host Darin Roberge discuss Gooding’s exciting Pebble Beach offerings, a preview of the upcoming London sale, the calculated and ethic approach that Gooding takes to creating their events and what it takes…
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Keith’s Blog: Three Takeaways From the SCM 1000
We’ve just completed our fourth SCM 1000, a thousand-mile tour for pre-1975 cars. There will be more about it in upcoming issues of SCM. But with my bags barely unpacked and the SCM cars still being put away, here are the highlights. First, riding with SCM contributor Ken Gross and Amelia Island founder Bill Warner…
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Keith’s Blog: Another Day in Traffic Hell
I played hooky from work last week and took our 1971 Jaguar E-type V12 coupe for a 150-mile drive. Our lunch destination was Skamania Lodge, the home base of the 2022 SCM 1000. It’s about 50 miles away. There are a couple of ways to get there. My co-driver, Lou Tauber, was a friend from…
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Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #17 – John Kraman – Lead TV Analyst & Company Relations Director of Mecum Auctions
Buy, Sell, Hold continues down the road to Monterey Car Week 2022 as we spotlight Mecum Lead TV Analyst and Company Relations Director John Kraman. He and host Darin Roberge talk his early days with the auction juggernaut, the mega miles he travels, his most memorable Mecum moments and the most exciting offerings from their…
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Keith’s Blog: My Hook is Always Baited
When we asked Somer Hooker to be the SCM Concours Ambassador, I envisioned his role as finding cars at events that deserved SCM recognition. I didn’t realize he would also start sending me links to cars for sale that he thinks might interest me. For instance, this vintage 1965 BMW 2000 C. While I’m not…
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Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #16 – Alexander Weaver – Partner and Senior Car Specialist at Broad Arrow Group
Buy, Sell, Hold starts down the road to Monterey Car Week 2022 with a spotlight on Broad Arrow Group’s Partner and Senior Car Specialist Alexander Weaver. He and host Darin Roberge discuss Broad Arrow’s inaugural Monterey Motorlux auction event, run down their list of exciting offerings and introduce you to their variety of innovative and…
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Keith’s Blog: A Classic Tour for Modern Cars?
I recently completed the 2022 SCM 1000 AMG Invitational. There were 25 performance Mercedes of various vintages entered. The star car was the 2009 SLR McLaren Stirling Moss entered by Wynn McCaw. The event was set up exactly the same as SCM 1000 Classic events we have put on in the same location. It was…
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Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #15 – Anthony Serra – President of Meccanic Shop and Bring-a-Trailer Super Seller
Buy, Sell, Hold returns this week with a spotlight on Meccanic Shop Founder and Bring-a-Trailer Legend Anthony Serra. Anthony and host Darin Roberge talk the inception of Meccanic Shop, what makes the best (and the worst) Bring-a-Trailer cars, how he became a platform super seller and the importance of creating a “personal touch” when listing…
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Keith’s Blog: Bad Driving and the End of Tours – You Respond
Last week my blog stressed the need for all of us on tours to drive responsibly. Thoughtless drivers can not only leave a lasting poor impression of sports cars with the communities they pass through, but they can also end up creating accidents with potentially fatal consequences. Here are a few of the responses I…
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Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #14 – John Temerian – President of Curated and Founder of the Miami Concours and Countach Rally
Buy, Sell, Hold returns this week with a spotlight on Curated President and Founder of the Miami Councours and Countach Rally John Temerian. John and host Darin Roberge discuss Curated’s unique and exciting inventory, the budding retro supercar market, the importance of carrying on family tradition through collector cars and reasons for the Countach’s unjust…