The Pebble Beach® Concours d’Elegance Best of Show Winner 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports
The Pebble Beach® Concours d’Elegance broke new ground in 2024, naming this original and unrestored 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports as Best of Show, an unprecedented departure for a concours that has ever- (or almost ever-) honored bright and shiny over-restored visions of great, sleek, powerful classics. At the Tour d’Elegance on Thursday morning – […]
Artcurial Motorcars, Saint-Tropez, France, June 29, 2024
A pop-up sale featuring area collections from the south of France, this appears to be an opportunity venue for Artcurial which may (or may not) be inserted in its annual calendar. The location was pleasing and luxurious, but the sale room was cramped and cars were sold from photos, not crossing the block. There were […]
Mecum Auctions, Harrisburg, PA, July 24-27, 2024
Mecum’s Harrisburg auction at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex has taken on a whole new stature as the only successful consignment collector car auction in the Northeast. Mecum has done what no one else has been able to do. I had a list of 1,100 cars gleaned from Mecum’s website before the auction. A few […]
Bonhams, Bonmont Golf & Country Club, Cheserex, Switzerland, June 30, 2024
Bonhams returned to the picturesque Bonmont Golf & Country Club in Cheserex, Switzerland for its fifth auction at this location with no sale held in 2022 due to Covid 19. No records were broken in this 54 car lot sale (plus 9 motorcycles and 2 child’s cars not described here) and while some lots brought […]
RM Sotheby’s, Cliveden House, Taplow, Berkshire, U.K., June 12, 2024
Not having budget to travel to the U.K., nor to stay at the site, I watched this first-time sale unfold online, recording the block hammer bids. I thought I’d polish up old skills from the COVID era and compose an auction report from the auction video, the catalog, and the online photos. That proved to […]
The 2024 Monaco Auctions, May 9-11, 2024 – Artcurial, Bonhams and RM Sotheby’s
Every two years the Auto Club of Monaco presents the Monaco GP Historique. The course is set up for the Monaco GP two weeks later with pits, paddock, grandstands and the track arranged for the GP but instead of Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc (congratulations Charles on your maiden hometown win) it’s old cars on […]