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Jim’s Blog: What’s Your Current Project?
Since our usual car events are on hold right now, what are car people up to? Right now I’d normally be getting ready for the Portland Swap Meet, and a few local shows that take place in April. Instead, I’m working in my garage and spending a lot of time with my kids. My ’66…
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09: Jakob Greisen
Jakob Greisen is the Bonhams Vice President, head of their US Motoring and a Collectors Motorcar Specialist. Bonhams is a British auction house that was founded in 1793. It is one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers known internationally for fine art, antiques, jewelry, automobilia, motorcycles, and motorcars. The auctions are held in conjunction…
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Keith’s Blog: A Quick Road Trip in the Lockdown Era
I question the wisdom of my own decision to leave quarantine, even if briefly. Last weekend, Bradley and I piled into the SCM Volvo 122S and drove to the Oregon coast and back. Our destination was the fabled Bowpicker Fish and Chips in Astoria. The establishment is housed in a free-standing boat on a trailer.…
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From the Auction Desk: Clearing the Spring Calendar
I think it’s safe to say that with at least 40% of our fellow citizens under stay-at-home orders, the vast majority of collector-car auctions have been called off for the next little while. I’ve been crossing off auctions on my desk calendar left, right, up and down. Branson announced on Monday that their spring sale…
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Jim’s Blog: Five Car Projects to Do at Home
Stuck at home? Most of us are. Now’s a great time to turn off the news and get out in your garage. While a lot of things are closed, many parts suppliers aren’t — Summit Racing, Larry’s Thunderbird and Mustang Parts, Paragon Corvette, Original Parts Group, ZIP Corvettes, National Parts Depot, Camaro Central, Firebird Central,…
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08: Simon Kidston
Simon Kidston is known around the world as a multilingual classic car commentator and columnist, consultant and entrepreneur. Above all, he is recognized as a deeply knowledgeable adviser on the purchase and sale of rare classics. The company Simon founded in 2006, Kidston SA, has been responsible for the sale of some of the world’s…
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Keith’s Blog: Write Your Car Diary
Our world is changing daily. Five years from now, we will look back on this as an extraordinary time in our lives. But for the moment, we don’t know from one moment to the next how much — or how little — freedom we will have. I suggest that you to take this moment to…
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From the Auction Desk: Is Summer Here Yet?
Who else enjoyed a raucous night on Saint Patrick’s Day at home? Anyone, anyone, anyone? Maybe the bars/pubs/lounges are still open in your area, and you had a chance at some normalcy in these odd times. You’re not going to find any sense of that in the auction calendar. In addition to RM Auctions moving…
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Jim’s Blog: Spinning the Great Cancellation
Auctions, shows, events, museums. Seems like everything is cancelled, postponed or closed. It’s for the best, but that doesn’t change the shocking nature of it all. However, while the stock market seems to be getting worse by the day, I don’t think value sentiment has changed much in the collector car world from where it…
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07: Donnie Gould
Donnie Gould has been a car specialist and partner at RM Sotheby’s since 2002. He has had more than two decades in the vintage automobile auction and restoration industry and his vast knowledge of classic cars stems from his learning first-hand from his father, Tiny Gould, one of the first full-time antique automobile dealers in…