Classifieds for Legendary Motorcar Company

Morgan Motor Company celebrates 70 years of Plus 4 production in 2020 with the debut of the Plus 4 70th Anniversary Edition. In addition to the milestone anniversary, the new car marks the end of Morgan’s use of a steel chassis for the Plus 4. The company is switching to aluminum chassis. The British automaker […]

“Hi! My name is Thelma…” is how the advertisement for the Pick of the Day begins. The car is a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible and the advertisement, placed with ClassicCars.com by the private seller in Palmyra, Indiana, is creative, allowing “Thelma” to tell her own story. Obviously, this red T’bird is named Thelma because of […]

The Barrett-Jackson collector car auction company announced Friday that it was adding another celebrity car to an auction docket that reportedly had been filled to the brim. “Barrett-Jackson… announced today that it will auction the 1963 Modena Spyder California, serial number GTC001… made famous as the number one hero car in the iconic 1980s film […]

If you had any doubt about the desirability of Japanese Domestic Market vehicles in the current collector car marketplace, those doubts should evaporate when you learn that a 1970 Nissan Fairlady (aka Datsun 240Z) sold for a record $803,857 (88.55 million yen) on January 12 at the BH Auction in Tokyo. The Z432R was one […]

Editor’s note: This is the second 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. Thursday of Arizona Auction Week 2020 saw four more auction companies add to the bidding frenzy. Seven of the eight auction companies have now […]

The Pick of the Day is an immaculate – and rare – 1968 Porsche 911 soft-window Targa offered for sale on ClassicCars.com by a dealer in La Jolla, California. While not an exact number, it is believed that only 268 soft window Targas came to the US for the 1968 model year. This freshly restored […]

They represent two of the nearly two-dozen collections on the auction docket

The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum and its next-door neighbor, the National Auto & Truck Museum, are not merging, but they are cooperating in a visitor-oriented effort being termed “The Auburn Automobile Experience.”  Armed with a grant from The James Foundation of Auburn, the neighboring museums launched a 6-person committee and asked the highly recommended […]

Four of the Paul Walker Collection cars went across the block Thursday at Barrett-Jackson, and got a premium at the hammer, proving that star-power provenance matters. A tuned 2009 Nissan 370Z, a 1989 Nissan R32 Skyline track car, a 1995 Eddie Bauer Edition Ford Bronco and a 1967 Nova custom coupe did far better than […]

Thursday morning, Craig Jackson, chairman and chief executive of Barrett-Jackson auctions, unveiled his freshly restored 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 EXP prototype known as “Little Red.”” Also on hand was a sister prototype, the 1968 Shelby GT500 prototype known as the “Green Hornet.” Jackson literally brought history alive in this magical reunion, having found, rescued and […]