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Pebble Beach, CA – August 15, 2010 — Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, achieved a new world record yesterday on the first eve of its prestigious two-day Pebble Beach Auction with a $7.26 Million sale of a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione. The final…

RM Auctions continued its successful sales run in Monterey Friday night as a rare 1948 Tucker 48 Sedan, selling for $1,127,500, set a new world record for a Tucker. An important 1964 Shelby Cobra USRRC Roadster also attracted spirited bidding to break the magic million-dollar mark. Unofficial Top Five Sales from Friday, August 13: Lot…

Top Five Sales from Thursday, August 12:   Lot 140: 1962 Lincoln Continental “Bubbletop” Kennedy Limousine – $429,000 Lot 138: 1933 Lincoln KB Custom Dietrich – $385,000 Lot 135: 1957 Ford Thunderbird #98 Factory Racing Car “The Battlebird” – $280,500 Lot 113: 1965 Shelby GT350 – $247,500 Lot 102: 2006 Ford GT – $148,500  …

A rare vintage grand prix racing Bugatti is poised to fetch a new world record price of at least when it is sold by a British collector at auction in California this weekend. Read more here.

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 selections from 2009.

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 purchase of the 235-acre Auburn…

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 upgraded and customized 2009 Yamaha…

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 commercial transport, and since they…

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.