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Auction Extra: Top 50+ Sales Montery Breaks The Bank Four Days, Five Auctions, Nine Sessions, 861 cars, $118.3 Million The 2009 Monterey auctions were a bellwether. While the weather could be found headed in several directions, the overall week with its unprecedented series of auctions in multiple sessions, could only be characterized as a success...more
Intro: A Healthy Collector Car Market Here’s a fact to keep in mind: far, far more American families are current on their mortgages – on their homes, their cars, their boats and their vacation retreats – than are in default. more
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The Muscle Mustangs of 1969 Another Anniversary for Ford’s Pony Car by David W. Temple In this country the 1960s was a dynamic decade marked with a mixture of chaos, tragedy, and great triumph. Events ranged from the U-2 shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the “British Invasion,” assassinations, the Vietnam War, riots, and the Space Race culminating in the first lunar landing 40 years ago in 1969. ... more

Sixth Annual Concours of Exotic Cars It’s a Celebration by Christopher T. Wilson For the past six years Celebration, Florida, has held the, “Concours of Exotic Cars” to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. This year’s event attracted a much larger turnout than in previous years, outstripping 2008’s event, where an estimated 40,000 were in attendance... more

MAMA MIA! The Evolution of Italian Coachwork by Dennis Adler It began here, in the past. In what was once the soul of Europe’s blossoming automotive culture; Italy. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the automobile and its development had captivated the Americans, the French, the Germans, and British,...more

The 2009 Concours d’Elegance of the Eastern United States Twenty Wonderful Years by Jeffrey Broadus In a year when our economy is in crisis and companies are scaling back, the Concours d’Elegance of the Eastern United States (more popularly known as the Burn Prevention Concours) chose a different route, they decided to step it up, and for good reason. This year marked a significant milestone for the Concours as they celebrated their 20th anniversary...more

A Buick for Mimi Ed Ragsdale’s gift for his daughter by Bud Juneau There were perks for the men in upper-level management in the glory-days of the American automobile business, and being assistant-chief engineer at Buick gave Edward T. Ragsdale the horsepower to have an interesting Buick pickup created for his daughter, Mimi...more

Meisenhelder Model A-1: The One and Only by Bud Juneau In the early days of the American automobile industry it was popular for inventors to put their own name on their cars. Men’s names like Ford, Chrysler, Packard, Studebaker, Jordan, and later – Tucker became the names of cars. So, why not Meisenhelder?...more
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