In the years that SCM has been reporting on Monterey, we’ve watched the auction sales totals go from $10.8m in 1996 to this year’s $374.4m. From just 209 cars being offered in 1996 at Monterey (Rick Cole and Christie’s), there were 1,389 cars looking for new buyers this year at […]
When is a Ferrari not a Ferrari? Generally speaking, when it’s a Dino. These vehicles were created because Ferrari needed to build a production V6 in sufficient numbers to homologate the engine for racing in the mid-1960s. However, Ferrari didn’t want to offer a downsized engine in its own road-going […]
When was the last time you spent Sunday morning reading the classified section of your newspaper looking for a car to buy? Been a while? Yeah, me too. The Internet has pretty much replaced newspapers as the central marketplace for used cars. That is understandable, as the Internet allows easy […]
A unique automobile, the “Mayfair 540K” Prominently featured in Jan Melin’s Mercedes-Benz: The Supercharged 8-Cylinder Cars of the 1930s Unseen at public concours events for more than a decade Long-term American history
A1964 Targa Florio class winner, chassis 3413 was just the third production Ferrari 250 GTO built. A fierce competitor, it racked up 15 overall and class victories between 1962 and 1965 including two Targa Florio class wins. After retirement from serious competition, chassis 3413 passed through the hands of several […]
The most significant one-off Works Aston Martin A unique Works Design Project, developed to compete at Le Mans Driven by Lucien Bianchi and Phil Hill at Le Mans, 1963 Clocked at 198.6 mph on the Mulsanne Straight Restored with the consultation of Ted Cutting, the original designer Fitted with its […]
Comprehensive restoration with extensive receipt file $23,000 paint by Stuart’s Paint & Body Specialists of Dallas, TX $80,000-plus in mechanicals by Norwood Auto Italia of Carrollton, TX New leather interior panels and carpet from marque specialists Factory tools and manual included
Under the guidance of several marque experts, this beautifully restored example of the rare Motto-bodied spider benefits from a recent restoration to factory specifications. According to the amalgamated data of John De Boer’s Italian Car Registry, and other anecdotal sources, chassis BS518 was sold new in 1957 from the backyard […]
Holman-Moody was initially allocated three GT40s for the 1966 season: chassis P1016 (the car offered here), P1031 and P1032. Although the chassis numbers were among the sequence used for production GT40 road and racing cars, they were each built to new Mk II specifications. The GT40 Mk II was the […]
This car is the ultimate Model J Duesenberg, one of only two SSJs built Special short-wheelbase chassis and supercharged twin-carb engine Sporting open coachwork designed by J. Herbert Newport Jr. Originally delivered to Hollywood legend Gary Cooper The car is in unrestored condition. It retains the original chassis, engine and […]
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