Blogs

• Keith Martin

  

  Does Every Car Require a Pebble Beach Nut-and-Bolt Restoration?

  In preparation for the Revs Institute Symposium on Collecting, founder Miles Collier sent out a list of questions for participants to consider. Since not all of us can make it to Naples, FL, I will share some of the questions and my responses in the next few newsletters. I also invite you to submit your own questions as well.

  Miles Collier: Does every restoration have to be to the highest possible level, involving a complete disassembly and reassembly of Read More

• Jim Pickering

  

  Sights from Arizona

  ACC’s staff just returned from a week in the desert, just in time to build our Arizona results issue. By now the auctions have all ended, but numbers are still tricking in as post-block deals come together.

  We’re working on our complete coverage of the Scottsdale and Kissimmee weeks now — you’ll be able to read our complete analysis in the March/April 2019 issue of American Car Collector, due out in February. In the meantime, here are some of my Read More

• Chad Tyson

  

  Mecum’s Portland Auction brings Muscle and 4-Wheel Drive Temptation

  Mecum Auctions is returning to the City of Roses for the second year in a row — and they’re bringing some special Shelby and muscle cars.

  This year’s auction is on June 16-17 at the Portland Expo Center, just a short drive from SCM World Headquarters.

  Last year Mecum sold 297 of 478 cars (62%), totaling $9,316,726.

  A 1965 Shelby GT350 sold for $335,500 for the high sale. Mecum will no doubt look to improve those numbers this time around.

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• Nick Jaynes

  

  The Millennial and the MG, Part Two: Perfect Stasis

  It’s a sunny Saturday morning and, from behind the wheel of my 1971 MGB Mk II, the storefronts of Detroit’s M-1 Woodward Avenue peel past my periphery.

  With my head cocked back and a big grin on my face, I am fully engaged in the buttery smoothness of the roadster’s boisterous four-cylinder, the enthrallingly tight and click-y gearbox shifter, and copious amounts of wind in my hair.

  Although I am reveling in my momentary motoring splendor, such moments are few Read More