Bonhams, Westin Kierland, Scottsdale January 23, 2026
In a three-auction week at Scottsdale this year Bonhams presented its usual one-day sale at the Westin Kierland. It offered a wide variety of cars with many choices for collectors. Importantly, however, it featured one lot, an essentially brand new 2024 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport showing in the catalog photography a total of 2,740 miles […]
Bonhams, Quail Lodge, Monterey, August 15, 2025
2025 has been a full year for Bonhams. With a full calendar of auctions across multiple specialist areas in the background Bonhams private equity fund owner Epiris, which had acquired the auction house in 2018, was facing the expiration of its desired ownership window, a timeline typical of private equity firms. After adding a number […]
RM Sotheby’s, Hershey, October 8-9, 2025
As nice as Newport, RI was last weekend for Bonhams auction at Audrain car week, there has always been something special about Hershey. And it didn’t rain, and my car didn’t crap out like it did on the way to Mecum’s Harrisburg sale last summer. Part of it is the Hershey atmosphere, the swap meet, […]
Bonhams, Audrain Museum, Newport, RI, October 3 2025
Fall in New England, indeed in the Northeast, is the best time. Colors are bright. The air is crisp and clear. The sun shines with an intensity, a felicity, unknown the rest of the year. Winter looms, but there are days before it arrives. Everything is lustrous with possibilities, even though we know that the […]
Worldwide Auctioneers, Enthusiast Auction, Auburn, April 25-26, 2025
Worldwide’s Enthusiast Auction (aka “Auburn Spring”) presented an unusual and highly varied consignment largely derived from major collections including the Zimmerman Automobile Driving Museum, the Great Outdoors Collection and, most notably, the Passport Collection. 168 of the 249 lots offered, 67.5%, were No Reserve. Of the 81 lots with reserves, 58 found new owners on […]
RM Sotheby’s “The Junkyard”: The Rudi Klein Collection, Los Angeles, October 26-28, 2024
There are places we know, or hear mentioned, but rarely if ever see. Places like Caruso’s on Long Island, the legendary A.K. Miller in Vermont, even Austie Clark’s museum (as much storage yard as museum.) Every once in a while, usually part of an end-of-life event, they surface and are dispersed in a flash of […]