Here it is, folks, the car that attracted top bucks in the Scottsdale auction week: a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. The yellow beauty was sold by Gooding for $3.3 million dollars. Oddly, it...
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Today, Saturday, I shifted my attention to the Gooding auction at Scottsdale Fashion Square. It was the company's first appearance in auction week and a welcome one for many visitors, including...
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If there's anything more charming than a Woodie wagon, it has to be a Woodie pulling a wood-hulled runabout. Because I'm especially fond of old powerboats, I was instantly attracted to this...
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Here's a car I was prepared to dislike, based on its origins plus photos I'd seen in various magazines. And yet, when I came upon the 1958 Packard Hawk in RM Auction's tent at the Arizona...
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With all due respect to Barrett-Jackson, it was a relief to move on to the RM Auction site at the Arizona Biltmore. The first is a circus, with 1000 cars sold at no reserve, many of them, in the...
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Aside from muscle cars, the next most popular segment at the 2008 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction appeared to be the ubiquitous American pickup. Almost as much fun and considerably cheaper to buy,...
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As mentioned in my first blog from the Barrett-Jackson 2008 auction, Corvettes and muscle cars seemed to dominate the seller's lists. Surprisingly, considering the few that were made, a number of...
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Friends, I have finally arrived in Scottsdale after an 8-hour door-to-door journey that would have taken half as long had I not been required to first fly from Vancouver Island to Seattle. Which meant...
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With the action already heating up in preparation for Scottsdale auction week, Barrett-Jackson has released a "Sneak Peek" download in the form of a PDF file that reveals a number cars to be...
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Just when you think the Scottsdale auction week has become saturated with events, along comes another auctioneer with even more collector cars. But wait! "Gooding & Company" is "not...
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henry ford was the inspiration behind the company. Henry II rebuilt it into a powerful industrial force following WW2. But the most creative of the family was Edsel Ford, a talented artist and...
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Two bests don't always add up to better but in this instance they most certainly did. The car is a Rolls-Royce, a marque known from its earliest years as "the best car in the world."...
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GM Product VP Bob Lutz would love to have something like this in Pontiac's lineup right now. Actually I'd like to have it in my garage and if only I had $1.3 million to spare, that's where...
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At last, there is something more to Scottsdale's auction week than auctions. Three whole days of concours delights are coming your way on January 18-20, thanks to the 2007-2008 National Tour...
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You'll forgive me, I hope, if I feature one of my favorite sports cars in this blog. Since the AC Ace was the very car that Carroll Shelby chose as the basis for his Cobra my taste is in good......
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Much as I crave the sun in January and enjoy viewing great old cars I was not prepared to attend the Scottsdale auction week in January, 2008. It was a matter of budget priorities, you see. I've...
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After much speculation, Barrett-Jackson Auctions has officially announced that it will hold a 2008 collector car sale in Las Vegas, October 16-18. Considering the circus-like atmosphere of B-J's...
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There are those for whom sheer numbers impress, and those who take pleasure in simpler things. Count me among the latter but even I couldn't help but be staggered by the price paid for F1...
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