Mecum Phoenix – Glendale Arizona Auction
After more than 11 years in the collector-car auction business, I am amazed by the ability of Mecum Auctions to bring together so many – often numbering in the thousands – of vehicles to each […]
After more than 11 years in the collector-car auction business, I am amazed by the ability of Mecum Auctions to bring together so many – often numbering in the thousands – of vehicles to each […]
While transatlantic commercial air travel is a routine, low-risk affair today, requiring less than eight hours’ flying time from New York to Paris, Charles Lindbergh was the first to perform the feat. That achievement is […]
In my last post, I left off with the last combat action of Messerschmitt Me 109 410077 and its Spring 1944 descent into the frigid waters of Estonia’s Lake Swiblo. Almost 50 years later in […]
This post and its sequel are by far the most-visited blog posts I have ever written, testament to the worldwide interest in unusual and historic finds and the emotions stirred up by wartime artifacts. These […]
Full Disclosure: I used to work full-time as an in-house catalog writer for RM Auctions from late-February 2008 to mid-July 2012. I’ll stick to the facts for this Amelia Island auction report. They (now RM […]
Friday, March 8th or Day 2 at Amelia Island stepped up the action and featured the highly anticipated Gooding & Company Auction, wherein David Gooding and Gooding specialist Hans Wurl joined auctioneer Charlie Ross on […]
Bravely venturing Eastward to Amelia Island for the first time, Russo and Steele brought a strong lineup of collector cars to this highly competitive marketplace. A two-day event, Russo and Steele’s auctions began on Thursday, […]
Bonhams kicked off the auction action at Amelia Island yesterday, Thursday March 7 with a characteristically strong selection of memorabilia, literature, and collectibles offered, plus of course many outstanding collector automobiles. Headlined by two dozen […]
Best known as “The Black Pearl”, this stunning 1940 LaSalle-based Kustom honors the Harry Westergard tradition with a modern twist. Jim Bailie of Windsor’s Metalshapers extensively reworked the original coupe body, with every body panel […]
Following such illustrious American sports-racing cars as those produced by Briggs Cunningham during the early 1950s and predating Carroll Shelby’s British-American Cobra hybrids of the 1960s, Denver, Colorado’s Bob Carnes produced his Bocar sports car line. With background including […]
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