There's something about a "barn find" that tickles the public's imagination. So it was exciting to find not one, but three, or maybe even four, million dollar barnfinds" are going to auction this week, and one of them is the barnfind made famous by Tom Cotter's book, The Cobra in the Barn.
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The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance takes place on March 11, 2018. We'll have a full coverage of the concours next week, but the subject of this article is the auction cluster which surrounds this prestigious classic car event.
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Ferrari is preparing to rock the racetrack with its most powerful V8 supercar ever. The 488 Pista, which translates as “Track,” is the latest in Ferrari’s special series, and makes 710 horsepower while weighing 198 lb less than the 488 GTB and gaining some extra special handling prowess.
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Rétromobile has been running since 1976, when the most expensive car in the world cost less than $100,000 and long before the term retro had become fashionable. It is one of those places where auctions truly can throw up some remarkable objets d'automotive art. This year it did not disappoint.
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The motorcycle auction marketplace evolved rapidly at the year-defining Las Vegas auctions this year, both on a macro and micro level. Mecum's five day sale was the largest motorcycle auction ever held, while Bonhams set a new world record by fetching $979,000 for a 1951 Vincent Black Lightning.
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The Scottsdale Auction Week provides the lens through which the remainder of each automobile auction year is viewed. Here's our take on the market, plus a cross section of the most interesting cars offered last week in Scottsdale.
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The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award takes the winning cars from the eight most important concours events in the world each year, and has them judged by an unimpeachable panel of experts. This year the winner will be announced during Rétromobile in Paris on February 8, 2018.
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The US$7.5 million sale of Michael Schumacher's 2001 Ferrari F1 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction could have ramifications for the automotive auction industry
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No matter how large the pile of money you're sitting on, Ferrari is always willing to relieve you of it, with a series of road cars for the casual user that extends upwards to ultra-exclusives like this. The FXX-K Evo is a "laboratory on wheels" that took a whole year in the wind tunnel to tune up.
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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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