Auction

Each January the eyes of the automotive auction world turn to Scottsdale in Arizona. This year, by our reckoning, 40 cars have the potential to sell for a million dollars. Here's a look at the contenders.

The 1968 Espada grand tourer was a bit of a weird-looking Lamborghini. But as Danton Art Kustoms has proved with this build, it makes one heck of a Mad Max open-wheel hot rod, with its lovingly polished V12 engine swinging loud and proud in the wind.

As we speak, according to auction house Barrett Jackson, there is only one vehicle currently registered as a roadworthy car and an FAA-certified aeroplane, and it's about to go under the hammer in Scottsdale, Arizona.

One of only two surviving Apple Macintosh prototypes with a working 5 ¼ inch drive is up for auction on December 4. The headliner of Bonhams' History of Science and Technology sale, the extremely rare Mac is expected to fetch up to US$180,000.

"Alligator," Jerry Garcia's guitar of choice from early 1971 until late 1973, will auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles in December, closing a year that has seen four guitars sell for more than a million apiece.

In 2016, the Nobel Prize of John Forbes Nash Junior went to auction with an official estimate of US$2.5 million to $4.0 million and even higher expectations, but failed to make reserve and was passed in. Now the medal is heading to auction again.

The Taj Ma Garaj Collection going to auction in Dayton, Ohio on September 28, 2019, offers a treasure trove of Porsche and Volkswagen memorabilia.

Spy cameras of the past are to be auctioned along with rare and important items of photographic and film history later this month.

Most of the children's cars listed here stand an excellent chance of appreciating significantly in value over the long run.

The Monterey Car Week auctions left the collector car world in a state of shock. Sales totals were expected to be similar to 2018 when 850 cars sold for US$370 million but when the hammer fell for the final time in Monterey, just 770 cars had fetched $245 million – a shortfall of 80 cars and $125 million, or 34 percent down. Here's a car-by-car glance.

The Apple-1, launched in July 1976, was the computer that helped propel a two-man business operating from a suburban garage into the world's most valuable company a short 35 years later. This month one of the few remaining Apple-1 operating manuals hits the auction block in Boston.

Best known as Pink Floyd's guitar virtuoso, Dave Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection and gave the proceeds to a good cause. Gilmour's immense contribution to combating climate change, resulted in numerous smashed auction records along the way.