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The Pick of the Day looks to be in solid condition at a fair price

Led by the much-anticipated charity sale of the first-production 2020 mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette, Barrett-Jackson scored the highest-grossing collector car auction in its history during the 49th annual Scottsdale sale. The total was more than $141 million (including auction fees), with $129.7 million from its largest-ever docket of more than 1,900 vehicles, $7.625 million raised through […]

If you thought there would be a break in the action after Arizona Auction Week 2020, you were wrong. Though it doesn’t have an alliterative name like its neighbor to the south, its motorcycle auction week in Las Vegas with Mecum Auction’s staging its 29th annual visit and with Bonhams also in town for a […]

How do you know when it’s time to sell one of your cherished collector cars? The late Gordon Apker once told me that if he hadn’t driven a car within the last two years, he sold it. Another owner of a sizable collection explained that his wife wouldn’t allow him to build yet another garage, […]

Skoda may not be a familiar automotive brand to drivers in the United States, but the company based in what is now the Czech Republic and now part of the Volkswagen Group dates to 1895 and celebrates not only its 125th anniversary in 2020 but 115 years as an automaker. The automaker traces its roots […]

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of daily Arizona Auction Week 2020 sales reports from Hagerty, the collector car insurance and value-tracking company that staffs each auction venue. As soon as the auction companies post their final results, including any post-block sales, we’ll post a final wrap up on the week. The […]

The Baby Boomers’ lament is that the young whippersnappers coming into the collector car hobby don’t want the cars the boomers have collected and cherished through the years. But here’s the secret: Back when they were fledgling car hobbyists, the Boomers didn’t want the cars that their fathers and grandfathers loved. What they wanted were […]

It took years before NASCAR would admit that a black man, Wendell Scott, had actually won a stock car race. But there was no overlooking the impact Willie T. Ribbs had on motorsports a few decades later, and Ribbs’ career is now featured in a new film by Adam Carolla’s Chassy Media. Uppity: The Willy […]

Automakers typically unveil their latest vehicles at major auto shows, concours d’elegance or even the Consumer Electronics Show. Automobili Lamborghini used the Pitti Uomo international men’s fashion show to unveil its “total-look collection” for fall-winter 2020-2021. That’s “collection” as in clothing. “Outside the exhibition space, the Huracán Evo coupé on display in orange Arancio Xanto […]

As the auction companies are totaling up the numbers from Arizona Auction Week, they also are preparing for the next major stop on the 2020 collector car auction calendar, Retromobile, in Paris the first week of February. In addition to an array of more traditional collector vehicles, RM Sotheby’s seventh annual Paris sale will include […]