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B&B Confirms Significant Muscle Cars for Quail Sale
Charger, ‘Vette, and ‘Cuda part of B&B’s major muscle consignmentSan Francisco – Over two dozen American muscle cars from a single private collection will be offered for sale at the world-renowned Bonhams & Butterfields annual Quail Lodge auction in Carmel, California this summer. Consisting of, among others, no fewer than 12 Corvettes (nine of them…
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LeMay Board Approves Plan and Exercises Option on Land
(Tacoma, WA) – LeMay Museum President & CEO, David L. Madeira, notified City officials that the Museum is exercising its option on the land designated for the Museum’s future home in Tacoma. The action follows the Board’s approval of the Museum’s campus development plan which Madeira announced at a reception following its board meeting at…
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Kruse Announces 37th Auburn Fall Sale
Auburn, IN – Kruse International, the world’s first and largest antique, classic, and exotic collector car Auction Company will be holding its 37th Annual Auburn Fall Collector Car Auction August 30 – September 4, 2007. For 37 years, buyers, sellers, and enthusiasts from around the globe have congregated in Auburn to celebrate automotive heritage on…
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Worldwide’s Sterling McCall Sale Sees Record Crowds & Prices
Round Top, Texas, June 26, 2007; One of the largest groups of collectors gathered this past Saturday, June 23rd to buy one of the most diverse collections of vintage automobiles at The Sterling McCall Museum Auction conducted by The Worldwide Group. The sale resulted in well over three million dollars worth of automobiles changing hands.…
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Perfection Autosport to Debut “INSIDIOUS” at Good Guys PPG Nationals
June 27, 2007 Grafton, WI – Perfection Autosport, creators of the Dodge Charger R/Te, the world’s first E-body Charger, is set to debut their second creation dubbed “INSIDIOUS” at the Good Guys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio July 13 through 15. INSIDIOUS is a 1970 Dodge Challenger built in the popular G-Machine style featuring a…
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B&B’s Sale of Hogan Collection Establishes Ten Records
Several Fords set records at B&B’s sale of the Hogan CollectionAurora, OR, June 30, 2007 – The success of the Jack Hogan Sale of Ford Motorcars far exceeded all expectations with Bonhams & Butterfields’ principal auctioneer Malcolm Barber selling to an enthusiastic throng of Ford collectors that filled Hogan’s hangar on a sunny day in…
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Vintage Vauxhall Makes New World Auction Record in Sydney
Bonhams & Goodman, 2.00pm Sunday 1 July, Sydney – A big crowd of enthusiastic bidders drove the collectors’ car market upward at an auction conducted by Bonhams and Goodman in Sydney today. The highest price ever paid at auction for a famous vintage sports car, the Vauxhall 30-98, was achieved when an overseas collector paid…
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Bonhams Sets Record With $12.3m Goodwood Sale
1932 Alfa 8C 2300 brought $2.8m at GoodwoodJune 25, 2007 – Bonhams’s record
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Palo Alto Police Find Stolen Car’s Owner – 31 Years Later
From the San Jose Mercury News, Leslie Griffy reporting… A car stolen from Palo Alto 31 years ago is headed back to its rightful owner. The 1956 Ford T-Bird – just like the car the blond cruises in during the movie “American Graffiti” – was located in Southern California this week. Today the owner lives…
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Worldwide’s Sterling McCall Sale One Day Away
Only one day remains until the Worldwide Group’s sale of the Sterling McCall Museum Collection, Saturday June 23. One of the stars of the show is a 1967 Toyota 2000GT factory twin-cam, left-hand-drive supercar. Universally accepted as the first Japanese supercar, this incredible car is being offered at no reserve from the McCall Museum. It…