Mecum Auctions, Kissimmee, Florida, January 4-15, 2023
Mecum Kissimmee is a remarkable story. From its start in 2010 Kissimmee has always had a 1,000 plus car consignment. It passed 2,000 lots only two years later in 2012 and has never looked back. The car count exceeded 3,000 in 2019 and after retrenching during Covid popped back over 3,000 in 2022 before reaching […]
RM Sotheby’s, Miami Beach, December 10, 2022
RM Sotheby’s launched a different concept live auction in Miami on December 10. Set at the 7th floor exhibition space at 1111 Lincoln Road surrounded by stylish bars and restaurants it featured twenty-one cars from the Kuwait-based Youngtimer Collection and five from the Rey Collection in a 58-car docket. 36 of the lots were offered […]
RM Sotheby’s, Newman/Hass Collection, Lincolnshire, IL, October 29, 2022
Rarely, if ever, does a collection like this come along. Carl Haas and Paul Newman got together in 1983 when Haas convinced Mario Andretti to join the team, if he could bring Paul Newman into it (or maybe it was the other way around.) Newman, it was noted in the catalog, wasn’t inclined but succumbed […]
Barrett-Jackson, Houston, October 20-22, 2022
Sometimes auctions come back for a reprise of a first time venue and struggle to produce the first year’s hype and results. Not so with Barrett-Jackson’s return for its second year at Houston’s NRG Center where the cars, the docket and the money were consistent with their first year in 2021. B-J makes a fetish […]
Broad Arrow Auctions, Passion for the Drive Jim Taylor Collection, Gloversville, NY, October 15-16, 2022
Broad Arrow Auctions moved quickly from its inaugural auction at the Monterey Jet Center in August to upstate New York and the single-owner sale of a whole bunch of cars from the collection of Jim Taylor. Jim’s family started Taylor Made products in Gloversville, on the edge of the Adirondacks, in 1908 making canvas products […]
RM Sotheby’s, Gene Ponder Collection, Marshall, Texas, September 24, 2020
Fifteen years ago in 2007 RM Auctions sold kitchen cabinet mogul Gene Ponder’s collection (or much of it) in Marshall, Texas at No Reserve raising $11.9 million. But, you can’t keep an enthusiastic serial buyer down and on September 24 RM Sotheby’s sold the latest Ponder acquisitions with No Reserve also at his spread in […]