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Special Festivals of Speed Amelia Island Offer for Sports Car Market Readers

The Festivals of Speed welcomes SCM readers to register their special vintage or exotic vehicles free of charge into the special Sports Car Market display area at the 2014 Festivals of Speed Amelia Island.  Approved registrants will receive: – Two complimentary General Admission tickets to Festivals of Speed Amelia Island […]

Get Your Tickets to the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Now

  Tickets to the 2014 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance are now on sale. Online ticket sales will end at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Order your tickets here. Four days of festivities get underway on Thursday, March 6 with shopping, auctions, art and dining, all leading up to the […]

305 Cars Sell for $79m in Paris

The final results from Paris are trickling in. Here are the preliminary numbers: A 1955 Jaguar D-type (pictured above) was the most expensive car of the week. It sold at RM for $4,947,798. Of 52 consignments, RM sold 41 (79%), for an overall total of $23,571,761. Read more at rmauctions.com. […]

Mecum Kissimmee Totals $62.7m

Mecum‘s mammoth Kissimmee sale has drawn to a close, and the results are in. 1,759 vehicles sold out of 2,576 offered, and overall sales totaled $62,729,344. A 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda was the high sale at $604,800. Despite nationwide weather conundrums resulting in thousands of cancelled flights throughout the Northeast […]

Show Your Support for “Child Help”

On January 11, a banquet and auction took place for the charity Child Help, a national organization that seeks to rescue battered and abandoned children. Steve Austin’s Automobilia donated an original painting by Nicholas Watts. “Spirit of America” depicts the winning 1964 Daytona Coupe at Le Mans. This year’s banquet […]

Desert Concorso Applications Invited

Desert Concorso is a coming to Palm Desert, California.  The event expands on Concorso Italiano‘s Monterey format, featuring Italian Cars — but not only Italian cars. The Desert Concorso is a “wash it, wax it and show it” car show. In addition to inviting all the great Italian marques, Desert Concorso also invites historically important GT, […]

The Star Cars of Paris

Artcurial, Bonhams and RM will each hold an auction in Paris this week. Here is a quick roundup of the online catalogs, along with a few of the featured cars: RM’s sale takes place February 5. Among the many heavy-hitters is a 1955 Jaguar D-type, pictured above. View the RM […]

Updated Arizona Total: $253m

Here are the totals totals and high-sales for the 2014 Arizona auction week: Barrett-Jackson sold 1,401 out of 1,405 cars for $110,439 total. High sale was a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88 coupe, sold at $3,850,000. Gooding & Company sold 110 cars out of 118 for $49,461,550 total. High sale was a 1958 […]

Arizona Concours Celebrates Successful Inaugural Event

  The inaugural Arizona Concours d’Elegance took place Sunday, January 12, on the landscaped lawns of the historic Arizona Biltmore resort in Phoenix, AZ. The highly successful first-time event presented a selection of 75 automobiles, with winners announced for vehicle classes, special awards and Best of Show. Under brilliant blue skies, more […]