Category Archives: Auctions
1951 Allard J2 With Cobra Power to Go On Auction Block @ Amelia Island
To view the entire photo gallery in 2D or your choice of stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player , here for an HTML applet, or here for an HTML5 viewer Before there was the Pantera, before there was the Sunbeam Tiger, … Continue reading
1947 Julien MM5, A Josef Ganz Design, Sells For $54K @ Weiner Microcar Museum Auction
We’ve mentioned the story of Josef Ganz before. Ganz was instrumental in popularizing the idea of a “volkswagen”, an inexpensive peoples’ car, in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Mercedes and BMW both hired him as a consultant … Continue reading
1914 Detroit Electric Model 46 Cape Top Roadster
To view the entire photo gallery in 2D or your choice of stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player , here for an HTML applet, or here for an HTML5 viewer When I saw this Detroit Electric roadster I was a bit … Continue reading
Tucker #3 to Cross RM’s Amelia Island Auction Block, Formerly Owned by George Lucas
To view the entire photo gallery in 2D or your choice of stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player , here for an HTML applet, or here for an HTML5 viewer George Lucas was the executive producer of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1988 motion … Continue reading
2014 Corvette Stingray VIN #001 Sells to Rick Hendrick For $1,050,000 to Benefit Detroit’s College for Creative Studies
To view the entire photo gallery in your choice of 2D or stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player , here for an HTML applet, or here for an HTML5 viewer Chevy superdealer, NASCAR team owner and Corvette … Continue reading
Barrett-Jackson to Auction Off One of Four Surviving 1986 Porsche 959 Prototypes
Barrett-Jackson has announced that their upcoming Scottsdale auction will include an incredibly rare factory prototype Porsche 959. The Porsche 959 is considered by many Porsche purists as the ultimate air-cooled Porsche (the 959 had water-cooled heads but still retained the … Continue reading
Tucker Convertible Resurfaces, Heads to Barrett-Jackson in January
The controversial Tucker convertible, on which I have reported for both a local newspaper and jalopnik.com, seemed to disappear for a time after the shop which completed its restoration, Benchmark Classics of Middleton, Wis., went bankrupt. It will be in … Continue reading
Run-Flat Tires? Once Upon A Time You Carried Not One, But Two Spare Tires: Sidemounts
To view the entire photo gallery in your choice of 2D or stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player or here for an HTML applet A recent post mentioned Coker Tires, the leading supplier of vintage style cars … Continue reading
You Call That A Horn? This Is A Horn!
To view the entire photo gallery in your choice of 2D or stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player or here for an HTML applet The catalog for the RM Auction held in conjunction with the 2012 Concours … Continue reading
Look What I Found: An Electric Kyote
You don’t see dune buggies around much anymore, especially here in the midwest, so this Jeffries-designed Kyote II really stood out at a car show recently in Huntley, Ill. On closer inspection I discovered that it offers another distinction: it’s … Continue reading