Art Center Car Classic 2013: Sunday, October 27th Pasadena California Scott Grundfor Company’s addition to the fabulous roster of cars on display over the weekend was the 1983 Ford/Ghia Barchetta one-off concept vehicle. This concept car, designed by Ghia for Ford Motor Company, was unveiled
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Monterey Auctions 2013: The Good and The Bad
The world’s greatest collector car orgy took place on California’s Monterey peninsula during the third week in August. Before digging into the gems and lumps of coal, lets make some sense out of the most talked about item of the week-the $27 million NART Spider…
News from HAGI: October 2013
HAGI® Classic Car Indices presented a mixed picture at the end of October. Both the HAGI Top Index (market overall) and the HAGI F Index (classic Ferrari) corrected by 1.86 and 8.12 percent respectively. Meanwhile the HAGI MBC-Index (Classic Mercedes-Benz) gained 8.93 percent, the HAGI Top
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Ferrari 250 GTO sale record at $52M
Records are made to be broken, and it seems that one may have just been snapped again. An Italian website is reporting that a Ferrari 250 GTO, owned by American collector Paul Pappalardo, recently sold for $52 million…
2013 London RM Auction Results
No Bond car has ever done anything as outrageous on screen as transform itself into a submarine; none except for this Lotus in the epic The Spy Who Loved Me. Breaking with tradition, Q is never given the opportunity to explain the car’s features to 007. So, when the Lotus is fired off a jetty into the sea, the audience was stunned, and captivated…
News from HAGI: September 2013
News from HAGI: September 2013 numbers and comment. HAGI® Classic Car Indices corrected during September (with the exception of the HAGI P). The HAGI Top Index lost 11.87 points (5.34%) compared to last month to reach a price of 210.57. The HAGI P Index (classic
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Blue Chip Market Update : Prices and Trends
In late April, RM Auctions sold a mint Ferrari 330 GTS for nearly $2 million. One month later a one-off Aston DB4 GT (the very cool Bertone-designed Jet) found a new home for a shade under $5 million, just a couple weeks before a Ferrari 340/375MM sold for $13+ million at Villa d’Este. Then Bonhams blew those prices out of the water when a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 F1 brought $29.6+ million, setting a world record price for a car at auction…
2013 Monterey Auctions : Recap
2013 Monterey Auctions : Recap Rare Ferrari sets world record with $27.5-million sale! Click the image above to read the article Links to Full Auction Results RM Auctions Gooding & Company Bonhams Quail Lodge Cars Are Sculpted Fine Art Click the image
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2013 Monterey Auctions : Preview
2013 Monterey Auctions : Preview Gooding & Co. and RM once again headline the massive collector car auction extravaganza weekend in Monterrey! Links for auction catalogues Gooding & Company RM Mecum Russo and Steele Bonhams Quail Lodge 300 SL’s For Sale This Weekend
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Gilda Wins Best of Show at Rodeo 2013
Gilda Wins Best of Show At Rodeo Drive Concours 2013 Event: Read the full Beverly Hills Courier post show article HERE Read the full Autoweek post show article HERE Scott’s 1955 Ghia Gilda Streamline X Coupe was just one of hundreds of extremely unique cars
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