Gooding & Company Achieves Great Success at its Scottsdale Auctions with an
Outstanding 98% Sold and $39.8 Million in Sales
For the fifth consecutive year, Gooding & Company Sells the Most Valuable Car of Arizona Auction Week –
the $4.62 million 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing
13 World Records Established
Two Cars Sold…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 23, 2012 at 5:03pm —
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I am Writting the history on every chassis # for the Lola T210 and T212.
I start from the Factory delivery log book.
the first car arrive in the US was the serie T212 in 1971. it is east to trace the history for the first 2-4 years until the cars was not competitive any more on the international race and turn to the SCCA regional championship.
A lot of seconf hanbd car T210 and T212 was imported in the 75-85 for that purpose , until the historic race started to reopen…
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Added by Pierre Dutoya on January 21, 2012 at 9:51am —
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Skip Barber Racing School is proud to announce registration is now open for the Skip Barber Racing School MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge class in the 2012 SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup Series. Only eleven spots are available for application for racers who have completed five or more Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Challenge race weekends. With eleven races split up over eight race weekends at legendary…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 20, 2012 at 1:58pm —
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1934 Packard Twelve Convertible Victoria
RM Auctions returns to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Amelia Island, Florida on March 10, 2012 for its annual Amelia Island…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 19, 2012 at 11:39am —
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Tucker #1043. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson
The big Scottsdale auction week is finally here, now with six companies set to to drop the hammer on literally thousands of collector cars in a mere handful of days. In typical fashion, Barrett-Jackson was the first to usher cars through the stage lights, and it’s here where we’ve been alerted to the probable sale of this…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 19, 2012 at 11:15am —
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Innovative organiser of the Coppa Intereuropa Jason Wright will shake up the Monza meeting this year with a four-hour race echoing the famous Monza 1000kms of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The Monza 1000 km race was for many years the highlight of the Italian season, often eclipsing in popularity the Italian GP. The same cars will be eligible now that were eligible then.
Essentially an extension of the 1000km series for pre-1972 prototypes, this will be one of the rounds counting towards the…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 18, 2012 at 11:00am —
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Photo courtesy Saab
It’s a wrap. India’s Tata, ostensibly the savior of Jaguar, has been sniffing around Saab a little, but that’s a faint hope at best for the brand. By Friday, it’ll be too late by far for their physical heritage, as Swedish bankruptcy administrator…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 18, 2012 at 9:52am —
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On Friday, July 27, 2012, Indianapolis 500 fans will see the GRAND-AM Sports Car Series for the first time at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The Rolex Sports Car Series is the top circuit sanctioned by GRAND-AM, whose drivers and teams will practice, qualify and race all on the same day on the 2.534-mile IMS road course. Many of the teams and drivers of the famed Indianapolis 500 compete in this series during their offseason, or at other stages in their careers. Those drivers…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 17, 2012 at 2:49pm —
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Klemantaski Collection/Getty ImagesStirling Moss takes a hairpin in the 1961 Monte Carlo Grand Prix.
When two-time…
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Added by Bill Tudor on January 16, 2012 at 6:23pm —
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At the Berlin Auto Show in February 1939, Adolph Hitler delivered a speech decrying the increasing number of car accidents on the streets of Germany. For a man planning annihilation and world-wide domination, traffic safety would seem an odd preoccupation, but such was the Führer's…
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Added by Bill Tudor on January 16, 2012 at 6:04pm —
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When Mercedes-Benz rolled out its new-for-2013 SL at the North American International Auto Show on Monday, it would’ve been really cool to show off the very first SL ever produced, in order to…
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Added by Stephen Page on January 12, 2012 at 9:41am —
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It’s not everyday that one comes across a vintage race car in the back of a garage or shop, but veteran F5000 driver Eric Haga has managed just that by finding and procuring six vintage Lola F5000 tubs, as well as several other key parts to go along with the monocoques.
Eric is no stranger to…
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Added by Ed Dooley on January 1, 2012 at 11:07am —
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Photos courtesy RM Auctions
Six years ago, the oldest production Corvette in existence, Corvette #003, sold for $1,080,000 at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale sale. RM Auctions is not expecting a repeat of that sale when the…
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Added by Stephen Page on December 30, 2011 at 10:45am —
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Sorry it's taken such a long, long time, (well, only a couple of months), - however, my photo's of this fantastic three day event are now posted on flickr so if you'd like to see a load of colourful & exciting shots depicting every aspect of the Goodwood Revival, take a peek at www.flickr.com/ianmacfadyen
There's also a hard-back photo-book depicting the Revivals 2006-2009 available through Photobox, so if you like my images,…
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Added by Ian MacFadyen on December 13, 2011 at 9:30am —
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Building the Global Archive of Automotive History - VRL member call to action! Become one of 100 VIP “VRL Historic Archive Ambassadors”.
We are building a global archive of automotive and motorsport history on the VRL community platform – www.thevrl.com and we need your help. Since 1900, there…
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Added by Stephen Page on December 12, 2011 at 2:14pm —
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Added by Octagon Fox on December 11, 2011 at 6:29am —
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Added by Octagon Fox on December 11, 2011 at 6:28am —
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The story of XP-819, the one-off rear-engine experimental Corvette that Chevrolet built in 1964, begins not with Zora Arkus-Duntov, the famed godfather of the Corvette whom…
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Added by Stephen Page on December 7, 2011 at 10:16am —
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