Last week I asked for your help in paring down my collection from 11 to 3 cars. While I am not planning on selling anything in the near future, 11 cars means 11 batteries to keep charged, 11 cars to run to the ethanol-free gas station, and 11 cars to […]
Blogs
Keith’s Blog: From Eleven Cars to Three
It’s getting to be time to prune the collection. At the moment, we have 11 cars in the SCM fleet, including my daily driver Hyundai Elantra. Eight are on the button, and three are in the midst of mild mechanical refurbishments. For sheer ease of management — and perhaps to […]
Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #48 – Andy Reid – Hayden Wood Insurance
On this week’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Insurance Guru, Columnist and Concours Judge Andy Reid joins us to discuss his approach to judging, the future of the Concours scene and we take a deep dive into everything collector vehicle insurance related. WATCH ON YOUTUBE OR LISTEN ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST […]
Keith’s Blog: The Allard Experience
Starting when I was three years old, my grandfather would perch me on the nose of his Ford 9N tractor. It was a ritual we repeated every Saturday morning at our family’s small farm in Novato, California (about 28 miles north of our home in San Francisco). My engagement with […]
Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #47 – Keith Koscak – Partner and Specialist at LBI Limited
This week on Sports Car Market’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Keith Koscak from LBI Limited joins us to talk LBI’s diverse and interesting inventory, their experience with Supercar and JDM markets and their incredible knack for uncovering rare and exclusive barn finds. WATCH ON YOUTUBE OR LISTEN ON ALL MAJOR […]
Keith’s Blog: First Drive
A few months ago, my son Bradley turned 15. He passed the written test and then I signed him up for lessons for street driving from a professional. In the teacher’s Honda CR-V, he had several sessions navigating local streets, and a couple of stints on freeways. Now it was […]
Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #46 – Emily Lambert – Managing Director of the Cobra Experience
This week, Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight focuses on Cobra Experience Managing Director Emily Lambert. Emily and host Darin Roberge discuss the Cobra Experience’s inception, the incredible array of significant vehicles, Shelby production items and memorabilia on display, their restoration program and how you can put a piece of the Cobra […]
Keith’s Blog: Mix Old Cars with New on Tours?
What do you think the ideal cutoff date for a vintage tour should be? Or should there be one at all? The cutoff for the SCM 1000 is 1974. We chose that year as stringent smog and safety regulations began to take effect on US cars in 1975, altering the […]
Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight #45 – Amelia Island 2023 Preview Special with SCM Contributor Jeff Trepel
Amelia Island 2023 is here! This week, on a special presentation of Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, SCM Contributor Jeff Trepel sits down to cover all things Amelia. He and host Darin Roberge talk collections, trends, Amelia’s potential market impact and analyze all the upcoming auction catalogs. WATCH ON YOUTUBE AND […]
Keith’s Blog: The Sporto Gets a PPI
Over the last two weeks, I’ve begun telling the story of the newest addition to the SCM fleet. I bought a 1975 911 S Sportomatic from the Hershey swap meet corral last October. The car was represented as having 47,000 original miles. It was originally purchased from Holbert Porsche in […]