London-based auction house Coys has announced a gross figure of 4,761,292 euros for its 12 May, Monaco Historics weekend sale. Leading the way were a 1936 Rolls-Royce Phantom III DHC that fetched 1,144,982 euros and a 674,750 euros, 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL 'Gullwing'...   read more >>

Bonhams' 2012 Monaco catalogue offered 80-or-so motor car entries. While many of the feature lots failed to find new owners, those that did ranged from an 82,800 euros, 1963 Fiat 500D Jolly Beach Car to exotic classics from Ferrari and Maserati...   read more >>

Well, they pretty well did it again, but this time the RM Auctions team took two days to gross a touch over 33.5m euros, with Ferraris once again to the fore; the 1957 625 TRC achieving a world record 5,040,000 euros...   read more >>

At an event attended that day by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco, RM sold the Blancpain-sponsored Lamborghini Gallardo racer for 155,000 euros. All monies will benefit the Monaco Association against Muscular Dystrophy...   read more >>

And still they keep coming: adding extra French flavour to an already impressive catalogue, Artcurial has consigned two more of France’s finest to its July auction. Joining the ex-factory Peugeot and WM prototypes are a pair of Ligier Le Mans cars...   read more >>

It was standing room only (and tight in the car park, too) for Bonhams' annual RAF Museum sale. Successful bidders paid £191k for an S1 Bentley Continental, £40k for a 1959 Austin Mini Se7en and £15k for this Bristol 411...   read more >>

Coys has put together a Monaco sale with attractive entries from all eras of the motor car, all bound together by that ‘Monte Carlo magic’...   read more >>

Bonhams’ 78-lot sale will be the first motor car auction to be held during this year’s Monaco Historics weekend. In a varied catalogue, highlights include classic GTs from the European Grandes Marques such as Alfa Romeo, Porsche and Lancia....   read more >>

This year’s all-Aston sale at Newport Pagnell is significant, as it will be one of the first big events to be held at the all-new ‘Works’ facility in Tickford St. Rising to the occasion, Bonhams will offer a ‘Sanction II’ DB4GT Zagato as the headlining lot...   read more >>

At its forthcoming 12 May sale, RM Auctions will sell Blancpain President and CEO Marc A. Hayek’s 2011 Lamborghini racing car at 'No Reserve'. All proceeds will be donated to the Monaco Association against Muscular Dystrophy...   read more >>

Grossing over 33 million euros at its first-ever sale in Monaco two years ago, RM has a hard act to follow in 2012...   read more >>

The Swiss auction house, Oldtimer Gallerie Toffen, will hold a classic car sale later this month at its offices just a few kilometres south of Berne...   read more >>

Artcurial’s 7 July Le Mans Classic sale is looking more impressive by the day. The Paris-based auction house has released details of some of the confirmed entries, cars such as this 1968 Porsche 908 estimated at 1,300,000 – 1,600,000 euros...   read more >>

Don’t assume you’ll be bidding on a Lancaster or Spitfire at Bonhams’ forthcoming auction. No, the priceless exhibits at the RAF Museum are staying put – although there is one aeroplane listed in the Bond Street house's interesting catalogue...   read more >>

They’re off! Yes, the spring auction season has started and first out of the starting-gate this month is Coys with a 54-car entry to its Ascot racecourse auction...   read more >>

Bonhams has consigned a Gulf-liveried McLaren F1 to its 16-17 August, Pebble Beach week auction at Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley. In 1997, chassis 028R contested FIA GT Championship races in Europe, Japan and the USA...   read more >>

Bonhams will offer a very special Studebaker at its forthcoming 11 May Monaco auction – a 1972 Avanti II Coupé once owned by its stylist, the famous designer Raymond Loewy...   read more >>

It might not have quite made the letters page of The Times, but the news of a ‘barn-find’ Aston entry to the May, Newport Pagnell auction is as sure a sign of spring as anything Mother Nature can offer...   read more >>

RM set three new auction records at its $23m Amelia Island sale. While top billing went to a pre-War, special-bodied Cord, observers watching live from around the world were stunned when the 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Convertible sold for $1,210,000...   read more >>

Buoyed by an outstanding selection of Porsches from the Drendel Collection, Gooding & Co. grossed a whisker over $36m at its 2012 Amelia Island sale...   read more >>

An interesting mix of cars, motorcycles, boats and accessories will be auctioned by Osenat later this month, at the company’s well-established base just outside Paris. From a wacky Citroën Méhari 4x4 to a timeless 1968 Maserati Mistral (50,000 - 60,000 euros), the sale offers something for everyone...   read more >>

After a successful London sale, it’s off to the Essen Techno Classica exhibition for London-based house Coys. The 49-car catalogue features a variety of pre- and post-War classics, including a 1963 Maserati Sebring Series 1...   read more >>

In a sale grossing £1.3m, the top-selling car was the ‘barn-find’ 1960s Ferrari 250 GTE once owned by Italian film producer Agostino ‘Dino’ De Laurentiis. The dusty silver Ferrari was sold to a UK-based telephone bidder for £101,180...   read more >>

David Gooding and his team have assembled a simply stunning catalogue of predominantly European sports cars for their forthcoming Amelia Island sale...   read more >>

Coys’ next sale will be held at its traditional, central London location, the Royal Horticultural Halls. Titled ‘Spring Classics’, the London-based auctioneers hope to entice new owners behind the wheel of a collectors’ car in the summer...   read more >>

RM’s Rob Myers is “Thrilled to be returning to Amelia Island,” and the company’s Chairman and Founder has much to be excited about in its 118-lot, quality catalogue for the 2012 Florida sale...   read more >>

With the 4.5m-euro, ex-Roger Vadim 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Spider California its star lot, the Artcurial team must be delighted with a Paris sale that grossed over 14 million euros...   read more >>

Since the early 70s, the words 'Porsche' and 'Turbo' have symbolised power and total dominance. On 9 March, Gooding & Co will offer 18 cars from the Drendel Family Porsche Collection, most of them turbocharged, including the ultimate 917, a 1973 Porsche 917/30...   read more >>

Late last night, 3 February 2012, at Artcurial’s Paris Rétromobile sale, the much-fancied Ferrari Spider California once owned by French film director Roger Vadim sold for 4,507,100 euros....   read more >>

At a price just breaching the 1 million euros mark (1,012,000, to be precise), it was the 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT that led the way at Bonhams’ 7.2m euros, 2 February Paris sale....   read more >>

Agostino ‘Dino’ De Laurentiis was one of the most famous Italian film producers, his accomplishments including a pair of Oscars for two of his Italian neorealist pictures. Now, just over a year after his passing, a well-patinated Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 which he owned during the 1960s is to be auctioned by Bonhams on the 3 March in Oxford...   read more >>

“A great kick-start to what is shaping up as another terrific auction year,” is how Rob Myers, Chairman and Founder, RM Auctions, described the Ontario-based company’s $25.6m sale at the Arizona Biltmore last week...   read more >>

In anticipation of its 3 February Rétromobile sale, Artcurial has taken to the French capital’s streets in the auction’s star lot: the Ferrari once owned by French film director, screenwriter, actor and producer Roger Vadim...   read more >>

Grossing a touch short of $40 million, California-based auction house Gooding & Co. had another stellar Arizona sale...   read more >>

Holding its first-ever sale during ‘Scottsdale week’, Bonhams did well, selling a significant number of cars including pre- and post-War classics, iconic Americana and the inevitable ‘barn-find’...   read more >>

In the wake of Saab’s recent demise, liquidators have moved in to break up the inventory of the ill-fated Swedish manufacturer’s heritage museum. While this sadly all but eradicates any chance of resurrection, it also gives you the chance to choose your very own memento from the 120 cars offered...   read more >>

Bonhams’ 2012 Paris sale – to be held on Thursday, 2 February now, please note – has as its leading entry a LHD 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT...   read more >>

Pity the poor postman over the next few days; Artcurial’s forthcoming Paris sale catalogue is a whopper. The quality of the entries more than matches the thickness of the over-350-page tome, headed, of course, by the ex-Roger Vadim 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Spider California...   read more >>

The seven motor cars and two motorcycles of the Daniels collection, which Bonhams is putting up for sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday 29th June, are of exceptional interest. They belonged to the extraordinary watchmaker George Daniels and, in total, are expected to sell for more than £8 million. ..   read more >>

For those suffering from post-Christmas, bad-weather blues, the thought of a week in Arizona has its attractions. This January, Gooding has assembled a colourful catalogue of significant cars sure to appeal to the most discerning collector...   read more >>

Bonhams’ North American division has assembled a classy catalogue for its first-ever Scottsdale sale. Of the 66 motor car entries, racing Porsches feature large, including the ex-Works, ex-Otto Zipper/Scooter Patrick, 1967 Porsche Carrera 6...   read more >>

As a mainstay of the January Arizona auction scene, for 2012 RM has catalogued more than 140 motor cars that should appeal to any visitor determined to enjoy both a little winter sun and add to his or her collection...   read more >>

While most of us are enjoying a festive break, Gooding & Company has its eye firmly on the New Year and its 20-21 January auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. And it seems the auction house’s dedication is paying off, judging by two of the latest consignments: a matching-numbers 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing and 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider...   read more >>

You don’t often read the words “ex-Ayrton Senna” in conjunction with a rallying Austin MG Metro 6R4, but Coys has managed to consign one such example for its season-opening Birmingham sale. As befits the venue, competition cars are to the fore...   read more >>

London-based house Coys declared results of some £4.5m for its 7 December sale. Top-selling car was an ex-Ecclestone Collection, £864,000 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K, and an American buyer became the latest owner of the ex-George Harrison, 1964 Aston Martin DB5...   read more >>

Top-selling car at Bonhams’ December sale was the famous ‘Le Mans ‘55’ Healey 100S which achieved an impressive £843,000. In addition to that ‘barn-find’, there were many other cars ready to run, only needing a big red bow to be that perfect Christmas gift...   read more >>

The Paris-based auction house has just announced that its forthcoming Rétromobile sale will include several, highly desirable GTs from the 50s and 60s, the most significant being the ex-Roger Vadim 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Spider California...   read more >>

If there’s one thing we’ve learnt after yet another year of frantic classic car market activity it’s that unrestored ‘preservation’ cars are most definitely ‘in’...   read more >>

“Our best catalogue this year,” is how Douglas Jamieson of Coys describes the company’s forthcoming London sale...   read more >>

Every year, the lead singer of The Who, long-term Teenage Cancer Trust patron Roger Daltrey, organises concerts for the charity at the Royal Albert Hall. At Bonhams’ forthcoming 1 December Weybridge sale, a personalised 2012 Lotus Evora S 2+2 will auctioned on behalf of this worthy cause...   read more >>

The 1956 Ferrari 500 Testa Rossa won on its debut at that year’s Monza 1000km Supercortemaggiore. It soon became a potent, easy to drive entry at sports car races worldwide, and Gooding will offer a significant example at its 20 - 21 January, Arizona sale...   read more >>

An early consignment to RM’s forthcoming 2012 Arizona sale is this 1957 Ferrari 410 Superamerica, a car with out-of-this-world bodywork by Scaglietti. It was the first 'Scaglietti Ferrari' and the only 410 Superamerica carrying coachwork by the firm...   read more >>

It’s a selection of quality British classic cars that leads the way at Bonhams’ end-of-season Home Counties sale...   read more >>

Among the hurly-burly of the modern tuning industry stands at this year’s Essen Show will be an oasis of good taste and understated elegance: Coys will offer 38 classic and modern collectors’ cars at an auction to be held on 30 November...   read more >>

When, in the early 60s, Renzo Rivolta married race-bred mechanicals by Bizzarrini and styling from Giugiaro, the result was the magnificent Iso Grifo. While most cars carried a blueprinted 5.4-litre Corvette V8, in 1969 the company introduced a 7-litre option...   read more >>

On 12 November, an eight-seat Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Limousine will go up for auction at the Bonhams sale in Los Angeles. But this isn't any normal Cadillac Limousine, no sir: it's the one previously owned by Elvis ‘The King’ Presley...   read more >>

For a self-professed ‘small’ sale, Artcurial’s gross figure of 2.8m euros is not bad going, aided more than a touch by the top-selling (531,378 euros) 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL 'Gullwing'...   read more >>

With a £13.3m gross figure, and 79% of all lots sold, RM had another successful evening in London...   read more >>

RM Auctions is returning to Monaco for its regular biennial sale at the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, on 10 – 12 May 2012. An early consignment is the ex-Nino Vaccarella 1968 Alfa Tipo 33/2 ‘Daytona’...   read more >>

Held the day before Britain’s annual ‘Bonfire Night’ celebration, the final 2011 Silverstone Auctions event offers 80 cars and a fine selection of automobilia, all at the ‘Home of British Motor Racing’...   read more >>

In addition to sharp-suited City gents bidding on any one of RM’s 101 motor car entries at its forthcoming London sale, expect to see some leather and denim-wearing bikers, as a varied selection of 25 motorcycles starts proceedings in Battersea...   read more >>

Do you really need a reason to travel to Paris? Quite. But if you are planning a pre-Christmas break, why not go at the end of October when Artcurial will hold its final 2011 motor cars sale?...   read more >>

Osenat’s next 'Automobiles de Collection' sale will take place this Sunday, 16 October. A selection of motor cars and motorcycles will be offered at the company’s regular Fontainebleau venue, near Paris...   read more >>

The world's favourite secret agent and his very special Aston DB5 dominated last year’s RM ‘Automobiles of London’ sale. For your eyes only, we present a preview of this year’s 100+ car catalogue...   read more >>

It was the rare 1969 BMW 'Spicup' (from ‘Spider’ and ‘Coupé’) that topped Bonhams’ 2011 Munich sale, a ‘Refer Dept.’ car that achieved 460,000 euros....   read more >>

Whether you’re a refined individual who appreciates the subtle virtues of a 1958 Aston Martin DB Mk III; or a rather more flamboyant character, likely to admire a metallic Opal Green Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible, Ascot Racecourse is the place to be...   read more >>

It was all change for Bonhams at its 2011 Revival sale as the Bond St house swapped auction-tent ends for its rostrum. A ‘dream team’ of James Knight and the company's Chairman, Robert Brooks, then shared the stage for another, multi-million-pound sale...   read more >>

Bonhams Europe returns to the BMW Museum, Munich, hoping to repeat its all-lots-sold 2010 auction at the same venue. This year, it’s a combination of automobilia, motorcycles and motor cars, with an interesting mix of the rare and esoteric road and racing cars...   read more >>

Always a popular venue, Europe’s finest museum of fighting aeroplanes once again plays host to Cheshire-based H&H, which has assembled an 84-car, quality catalogue including two exciting collections and interesting cars from Aston Martin, Jaguar, Austin-Healey and Ferrari...   read more >>

With the closing date for entries nearly upon us, Barons’ forthcoming Esher sale has as its centrepiece a superb example of one of the 50, limited-edition E-types built to mark the final production of the famous British sports car, now in its 50th year...   read more >>

Fittingly, at one of the country’s most patriotic events, Bonhams has assembled a predominantly British selection of cars for its 2011 Revival sale...   read more >>

With perfect timing, given the Stuttgart manufacturer’s impending launch of an all-new model, Coys will offer enthusiasts 20 classic 911s at its forthcoming Cotswolds sale...   read more >>

Wow, another mega Monterey sale for RM, selling around $80m and highlighted by both the ‘McQueen 911’ and the pre-War Mercedes – where do we begin with this?...   read more >>

German marques provided Bonhams' top-selling cars at this year’s Quail Lodge sale and it was the $1,002,500, 1957 BMW 507 Roadster with hard top that came out on top...   read more >>

Take the record-setting 250 Testa Rossa off Gooding’s 2011 results and you are still left with nearly $62m of ‘other’ sales – a quite extraordinary sum...   read more >>

American auction house Gooding & Company tore up the record book last Saturday when it sold the prototype of the much-valued Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa series for $16.39m...   read more >>

Early published results from RM Auctions include the news that the celebrated King of Cool's 1970 Porsche 911S was sold for a staggering $1.375m...   read more >>

RM Auctions’ Battersea sale returns this October for its fifth, consecutive year. In 2010 the event grossed £20 million and early entries - including a trio of significant Alfa Romeos - bode well for 2011...   read more >>

While Gooding lists 22 Ferraris in its 2011 Pebble Beach catalogue, including the potentially record-setting 1957 Testa Rossa prototype, this year’s sale also has a variety of other entries from other marques...   read more >>

Coys’ 2011 sale at the Oldtimer Grand Prix mixes competition cars such as this ex-Giotto Bizzarrini, 1965 Bizzarrini Competizione with timeless classics from Austin-Healey, Jaguar, Porsche and more...   read more >>

This year’s Carmel Valley sale, now firmly established as a two-day event, lists 130 cars and motorcycles with the Porsche marque well represented...   read more >>

There is no such thing as an ‘ordinary’ Phantom IV; after all, just 18 chassis were built and they were sold new only to royalty and heads of state. Yet even among the extraordinary, some examples are more, er, startling than others – and none more so than the 1952 Sedanca de Ville custom-built for the Aga Khan III...   read more >>

On 19 August, Bonhams will offer a car catalogued as “one of the all time great Bentleys - the Bullivant 6½ Litre”. Its selling price should set a marker for this year’s Monterey weekend auctions...   read more >>

As well-balanced as a finely tuned four-cam Ferrari, RM’s latest sale catalogue is now out and lists over 140 motor cars all having, the Ontario-based house would avow, that ‘Monterey Magic’...   read more >>

American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has donated her 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL to the Joplin Schools Recovery Fund, a charity dedicated to helping rebuild the city in southwest Missouri which suffered a devastating tornado earlier this summer...   read more >>

H&H’s next auction, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, Cambridge, features two car collections and other top-level entries which include a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 supplied new to Sir Paul McCartney...   read more >>

Early, headlining entries at Bonhams' Goodwood Revival sale include an ex-Briggs Cunningham 1958 Lister-Jaguar - chassis BHL-101, the first of two 'Knobbly' Listers supplied to him - and a wonderful 'Semi-Lightweight' E-type formerly owned by Sir Robert Ropner...   read more >>

Silverstone Auctions has assembled a nigh-on 80-car catalogue for its first Silverstone Classic sale. The entry reflects the occasion, and includes much significant competition machinery, as well as a broad mix of modern and classic cars...   read more >>

‘The Jaguar Legend’ is the subtitle to Coys’ forthcoming Blenheim Palace sale, and it’s a well-timed one, as the British company is riding high in the sales charts for modern cars and this year celebrates the sublime E-type’s 50th...   read more >>

“One of the best ever Goodwood Festival of Speed sales,” was James Knight’s verdict on Bonhams’ £7.25m auction held on the Friday of the famous Festival...   read more >>

Yes, it’s an exciting thought: the hands of ‘God’ have gripped this very steering wheel, as the Giallo Fly 575 Maranello you see here was ordered new by the legendary guitarist Eric Clapton...   read more >>

‘Bentley’ and ‘Aston Martin’ go together like champagne and canapés. No, hold on, that’s not quite right, but they’re still ‘Quintessentially English’ and that was the theme of RM’s new summer sale...   read more >>

With the experience learned in its all-Aston, dedicated Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and 100% sold, 2009 Willy Neutkens Collection of BMW Motorcycles sales, Bonhams is confident that its latest entry into one-marque auctions will be a successful one...   read more >>

It’s Festival time. I can just smell the new-mown grass and hear the ‘thunk’ of mallet on marquee peg as the final preparations for Bonhams’ top-level, mid-summer sale move on apace...   read more >>

Paris-based auction house Artcurial grossed 5.3m euros at its recent 'Automobiles sur les Champs' sale. As expected, at 789,364 euros, the Serre Collection 1968 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 was the top-selling car...   read more >>

Bonhams' forthcoming Sydney, Australia sale has as its headlining car the ex-1955 Geneva motor show 1955 Bentley R-Type Continental...   read more >>

Paris-based auctioneer Artcurial has assembled another stylish catalogue of cars for its forthcoming 'Automobiles sur les Champs' sale...   read more >>

RM Auctions, Salon Privé London 23 June 2011: Preview

It will be another ‘first’ for RM when its European division holds an auction at the luxury and supercar ‘Salon Privé’ event, to be held in West London later this month...   read more >>

Bonhams Aston Martin Sale at Newport Pagnell 21 May 2011: Review

Bonhams held its 12th annual Aston Martin Works Service sale on Saturday 21 May, the main servicing workshop at Newport Pagnell playing host to 46 lots of historic cars and a diverse and extensive collection of Aston Martin automobilia and ephemera...   read more >>

RM Auctions: Villa d'Este 21 May 2011 - Review

With a headlining gross sales figure of over 23m euros, RM can be pretty satisfied with its inaugural Villa d’Este sale...   read more >>

Bonhams ‘Les Grandes Marques à Monaco’, 20 May 2011: Review

Ferraris took the top slots at Bonhams’ 2011 Monaco auction. The big BBLM was a non-seller, but another competition car, the 1976/1983 308GTB Berlinetta Group B Michelotto, sold for 460,000 euros...   read more >>