Barrett-Jackson, Palm Beach, South Florida Fairgrounds, April18-20, 2024
Palm Beach is Barrett-Jackson’s longest running auction outside Arizona, a continuing success that draws enthusiastic bidders, and droves of barely-informed tire kickers out for a day at the South Florida Fairgrounds to look at cars, not livestock. Barrett-Jackson’s search for viable venues not irrevocably seized by competing auction companies [from Wisconsin] continues with a Fall […]
Mecum, NRG Center, Houston, April 4-6, 2024
Visiting a Mecum auction like Houston is like taking a snapshot of the breadth and depth of the collector car market. Events like Scottsdale, Amelia and Monterey get most of the press attention for their seven- and even eight-figure cars. Everyone likes to read about them, their rarity, design, technical features and value. But at […]
Gooding & Co. Mullin Collection, Oxnard, April 26,2024
There’s a lot to break down from Gooding & Company’s auction of “Selections from the Mullin Collection” auction held onsite at the Mullin Museum in Oxnard. But there’s one glaring fact and that is that collectors’ appetite for great old cars, even the rusty restoration projects that made up much of this sale, is strong […]
Gooding & Company, Amelia, February 29-March 1, 2024
I’ve known David Gooding since he and Miles Morris were the public face of Christie’s collector car auctions, through the inception of RM Auctions and into the present day when Gooding & Company became the embodiment of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. I cataloged David’s sale of the “Mormon Meteor” and the Peter Williamson Bugattis, […]
Broad Arrow, Amelia Island, March 1-2, 2024
Broad Arrow made its mark at Amelia in its second year with more cars, better sell-through rate and more money, much more money, as in $25 million (83.8%) more. Now entering its third year following its emergence from a core group of former RM Sotheby’s specialists and executives, Broad Arrow has established itself as a […]
Bonhams|Cars, Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach Golf Club. February 29, 2024
I finally got and compiled the final results for Bonhams Amelia. They’re nothing to write home about with a sale total of $6.7 million and a 65.8% sale rate. The 27 lots that didn’t sell brought hammer bids of $8.1 million The top sale, however, was a marvelous reconstruction of the 15-litre 1904 Napier L48 […]