Last year’s Monterey auctions sold 561 cars for a grand total of $120m, with 14 cars breaking the magic million-dollar mark. Each year, SCM reports on quite a few good buys at each of the Monterey auctions, but only five cars get rated as SCM Best Buys. Here are our […]

Multi-million-dollar cars may steal the spotlight each year in Monterey, but it doesn’t take a seven-figure bank account to buy an auction car for your collection. Here are the Top Ten Budget Buys from Monterey 2009 from the SCM Platinum Database.

  Pictured above: Workers painting one of the many buildings at the Auburn Auction Park in July 2010. Auburn, IN – July 28, 2010 — The Auctions America by RM team has been enjoying an extremely busy month since the entity’s formation was first announced on July 1 with the […]

San Francisco – 28 July 2010 –- Bonhams is very proud to have been selected to represent a truly one-of-a-kind motorcycle offered in collaboration with the most successful motorcycle racer of his era, Valentino Rossi. As written about in the April issues of both Cycle World and Motorcyclist, a highly […]

Pebble Beach, CA – July 27, 2010 — For the past 60 years, treasured, often one-of-a-kind classic cars have traveled each August from around the world to participate in the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Some of these cars are delivered to California’s central coast by plane, others by boat or […]

Monterey is just around the corner, and early consignments at this year’s auctions may just rewrite the book on top all-time million-dollar sales. Here are ten of the cars they’ll need to beat, as listed in the SCM Platinum Database.

SCM has learned that Mecum Auctions will put a one-owner 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 roadster over the Monterey block on Saturday, August 14. This car is from the estate of the late Karl “Fritz” Schiffmayer. Schiffmayer bought the car new in 1966 from Jack Loftus Ford in Hinsdale, IL. Another […]

BLENHEIM, ON (July 26, 2010) – Wild weather across the Motor City failed to dampen the enthusiasm of car collectors at RM Auctions’ Vintage Motor Cars of Meadow Brook event on July 24, as spirited bidding in the room, on the phone and via the internet saw total sales climb […]