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…
Cars are Art
…Imagined, Drawn, and Sculpted to a Fine Art: For many traditional artists and art appreciators it may be difficult to understand how we could claim that cars are art, but first you must understand how a car is born. Like many great drawings, paintings, and sculptures, the car is first imagined. For car designers there is a soul to the car and they see it as their art to capture and release that soul.
Batman and Gilda?
The Story of Two Pieces of Functional 50′s Concept Art Separated at Birth: 1950’s America was a place of Dreams. The economy was booming, the suburbs were booming and most of all the babies were “booming” which all reflected the bountiful feeling surrounding the time. Anything was possible…the Civil Rights Movement was putting the first nails in the coffin of Jim Crow in the courts, the country was united against the communist threat and industry in general was moving in optimistically creative directions the nation had not seen before. It was a good time for the country, and a good time to be looking to the future…
The Car That Led Three Lives : 1955 300SLS Prototype
This sleek, light metallic blue roadster has been determined to be chassis 00009/52, one of eight 300SL prototype coupes raced by Mercedes-Benz in 1952. From there it became the prototype for the 300SL Roadster and finally assumed a third role as a mule for the factory’s 300SLS race team in 1957…
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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Petersen Automotive Aerodynamics Exhibit
Aerodynamics: Art to Science During more than a century of innovation, automobile manufacturers have dreamed up some unusual body designs. From strange to stunning, the large majority of them were created in an effort to increase driving performance by reducing wind resistance. When a network
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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…
David Douglas Duncan and “The Secret SLS”
Prototypes are the products of an intense automotive design process. They are ideas given physical form and meant to test the culmination of those ideas. Most serve their purpose and end as scrap or become forgotten embodiments of a larger production that ends up relegated to a warehouse collecting dust rarely, if ever, to be seen again. Occasionally one is found on flaccid tires, fading away in a dusty, shuttered garage, whereupon aficionados immediately elevate it from “ancient junk” to “treasured artifact.”
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLS : Father of the Brood by Winston Goodfellow
This car is the starting point of a multi-generation automotive legend, to which 500,000 cars can trace their genes. It is the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLS and, like most of its ‘children’ — every sporting Merc that has followed — chassis 8427198118/1 is a stupendous drive…
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