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Lake Mary, FL – June 18, 2009 -– FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging systems, congratulates Pratt & Miller Engineering & Fabrication out of New Hudson, MI, on their win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 14, 2009.  The Pratt & Miller GT1-Champion Corvette…

BLENHEIM, ONTARIO, CANADA (June 25, 2009) – RM Auctions is delighted to announce the consignment of a champion 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 ‘Scuderia Filipinetti’ Le Mans Race Car and a historic 1953 Ferrari 166MM Spider Scaglietti to its highly anticipated Sports & Classics of Monterey event, August 13th to 15th in California. The recently consigned…

Blenheim, Ontario – June 25, 2009 –- Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions, is delighted to announce the consignment of a champion 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 ‘Scuderia Filipinetti’ Le Mans Race Car and a historic 1953 Ferrari 166MM Spider Scaglietti to its highly anticipated Sports & Classics of Monterey event, August 13 to 15 in…

Bowling Green, KY – The National Corvette Museum has opened a Collector Car Insurance Program in partnership with American Modern Insurance Group. The program coverage, targeted at private passenger automobiles with limited use vehicles owned by an individual, offers lower rates, broader coverage, more options/discounts and is maintained in-house by an NCM Insurance representative. Quotes…

LONDON, ENGLAND (June 24, 2009) – Bonhams is delighted to have been instructed to handle the dispersal sale of reserve vehicles from The Ward Brothers’ Collection – one of Europe’s foremost groups of early automobiles – at 2pm on Saturday 18^th July at Henley-on-Thames. The brothers, Toby and Daniel, have a motoring heritage and both…

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (June 24, 2009) – Confederate Motors, Inc., the premiere American luxury motorcycle manufacturing company, announced today their plans to introduce their latest design, the P120 Fighter Combat, to the motoring community at the Quail Motorsports Gathering in Carmel this August during the world-renowned Pebble Beach car week. “We are thrilled to be a…

LONDON, ENGLAND (June 24, 2009) – Bonhams has announced an outstanding catalog of cars as part of its successful annual sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (3-5 July 2009). Now in its 17th year, the event is recognised as the United Kingdom’s biggest celebration of motoring, with the auction (which has been in place…

TROY, MICHIGAN (June 22, 2009) − The futuristic, Ghia-styled 1953 Fiat 8V Supersonic, one of only eight aluminum-bodied examples equipped with a 115-horsepower 2.0-liter overhead-valve 70-degree V8 Fiat engine, is among the exciting entries in the Sports Car class at the 30th anniversary Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance on August 2, 2009 in Rochester Michigan. The…

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (June 23, 2009) – Enthusiasts and collectors paid a record $1.9 million for 49 rare, numerical New South Wales number plates in Sydney on June 18, comfortably exceeding expectations and blowing away any notions of a recession. Conducted by Shannons for the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), the auction resulted…

BUXTON, ENGLAND (June 23, 2009) – H&H weaved their traditional Buxton magic the weekend of June 9-10 and delivered some excellent results from their latest sale of collectors’ vehicles and related ephemera, the total proceeds of which were about $1.6m. Despite the inclement weather, the auction had a typically summery theme, with approximately half the…