Blogs
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“Everyone secretly hoped their offspring would have his mother’s looks.” — Swelldame The monthly Mystery Photo has been an SCM tradition for 25 years. Each week, we’ll share one of our “greatest hits” photos from the past and give you a chance to provide a new witty and provocative caption. Each week’s winner will be announced…
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Keith’s Blog: Scottsdale 2014 — A Myopic Perspective
The 2014 collector car market has launched. Today all the bidders are gone, and the temporary tents are starting to come down. The trashcans are full of discarded promotional items, bidders’ paddles and parking passes. The busiest guys in Arizona have to be the collector car transporters, as they load thousands of cars for their…
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“Off the grid and loving it” — MTdesign The monthly Mystery Photo has been an SCM tradition for 25 years. Each week, we’ll share one of our “greatest hits” photos from the past and give you a chance to provide a new witty and provocative caption. Each week’s winner will be announced in the Newsletter. Share…
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Keith’s Blog: Ferrari 375-plus, Arizona Concours and the Boneyard Tour
I’m sitting in a pickup truck headed west on Interstate 10, headed to the Pima Air & Space Museum. After a day fawning over the first-rate automobiles at the inaugural Arizona Concours, I expect seeing acres of mothballed F-16s to be something completely different. Just four days ago, I went to the tony Bonhams world…
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Jim’s Blog — On to Arizona!
Here we go: a week of auctions, over 2,500 cars for sale, and thousands of bidders and spectators. It’s Arizona time, and as you read this, the ACC team is on our way to the Valley of the Sun to cover this year’s events as they happen. Arizona is one of my favorite trips of…
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“Business in the front…party in the back.” — Cody Wilson, via Facebook The monthly Mystery Photo has been an SCM tradition for 25 years. Each week, we’ll share one of our “greatest hits” photos from the past and give you a chance to provide a new witty and provocative caption. Each week’s winner will be…
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Keith’s Blog: Portland to London to Scottsdale and Home Again
It’s that time of year, when we start racking up frequent-flyer miles. We’re also buying a few more lottery tickets like those from this situs togel resmi terpercaya so that after we win we can put a Gulfstream G650 into the SCM corporate hangar. While we’re at it, we’ll buy a corporate hangar as well.…
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This Week’s Classic Mystery Photo
“After being discharged from the RAF, Frank Whittle relieved his boredom by tinkering with a recovered secret Messerschmitt prototype. In the process, he invented drag racing, the “rail”, the flame paint job, and [Michael May and Jim Hall notwithstanding] became the first to mount a wing on a groundbound vehicle.” — Paul Nieman The…
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Jim’s Blog — Here Comes Scottsdale!
It’s a new year, and the car season is about to get fired up in a big way. The annual Scottsdale auctions in January — Barrett-Jackson, Gooding, RM, Bonhams, Russo and Steele, and Silver — typically offer over 2,500 cars combined. Last year saw over 2,200 of them sell for a grand total exceeding $225m.…
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Keith’s Blog: New Year’s Resolutions For a Car Collector
As we wait for the ball to drop in Times Square, it’s a good time to reflect on all the good, bad and insanely stupid things we’ve done in the name of car collecting this past year, and how we might become better collectors in the future. Here are my resolutions. Let’s check back in…