There was a tinge of sadness about this year's Motorclassica Show in Melbourne. Motorclassica is to Australia what Retromobile is to France and Techno Classica is to Germany, being the celebration of a 120 year-old automotive culture.
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A rare memento of the Industrial Revolution goes on sale next month as the plans for the world's first underwater go up for auction at Bonhams. The graphic designs for the Thames Tunnel show details of the engineering project that was called the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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A true rarity of the Space Race is up for auction in the form of one of the few surviving Soviet Sputniks. The ground test version of the first manmade satellite to go into orbit in 1957 that shocked the world in the coldest days of the Cold War is part of Bonhams Air and Space Sale.
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Group B saw drivers wrestling boxy tearaways along narrow tracks inches from fans desperate to get a close-up view of their heroes. It was enthralling, but deadly. This immaculate Mazda RX-7 Evo Group B Works managed to survive the chaos, though, and now it's up for auction in London.
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This 1965 Ferrari 330 GT was transformed from a standard 1965 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 to something quite unique by Carrozzeria Alfredo Vignale. It will sell at the official Pebble Beach auction next week, with an official estimate of between $700,000 and $900,000.
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In the world of real-life flying cars, back before the days of Terrafugia or AeroMobil, there was the Moller Skycar. Although the vehicle has still yet to reach production, the original four-seater M400 prototype unit – which actually flies – can now be yours, as it's up for auction on eBay.
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The flight plan used aboard the Apollo 13 Command Module is up for auction at Sotheby's. The loose-leaf binder not only includes instructions for the crew, but hastily scribbled notes penned as the astronauts struggled to survive the return journey to Earth after their spacecraft was damaged.
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An extremely rare German four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine used by the German U-boat forces in the Second World War has set a new world auction record at a Christie's sale at Rockefeller Center in New York. The property of an American collector, it sold for US$547,500.
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Carl Sagan is best known as a science popularizer, but he was also a pioneer in the early US space program, a planetary scientist, astrobiologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and social activist. Now a major archive of his work preserved by his assistant Shirley Arden is up for auction.
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The prices fetched at auction are a useful guide to the perceived societal value of significant historical objects, and the sale of an Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY (DiSplay&KeYboard) for $93,750 this week could not be more illustrative of contrasting views.
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