by Mike Gulett - From the My Car Quest Wayback Machine - this article was originally published in October 2014 and the cartoon was originally published in January 2015. The collector car market auction business has grown very fast in … [Read more...]
Is The Car Collecting Culture Becoming More Like The Art Collecting Business?
February 12, 2024 By 11 Comments
How Trustworthy Are Classic Car Auction Companies?
May 5, 2023 By 12 Comments
by Mike Gulett - There was a time when there was a classic car auction season. In the US there are the major auctions events in Arizona, Amelia Island and Monterey that get a lot of attention (plus the many excellent events in Europe). But now … [Read more...]
Are We Running Out Of Barn Finds?
February 12, 2022 By 4 Comments
by Mike Gulett - There is a limited supply of barn find collector cars - there were only so many cars ever made, a small subset of those cars are classic collector cars, a very small subset of those are in a position to be a real barn find and … [Read more...]
The Search For Collector Car Authenticity
July 15, 2020 By 17 Comments
If not for the coronavirus we would be approaching Monterey Car Week right now. Where we would be seeing a serious number of cars cross the auction block resulting in a serious amount of money changing hands in mid-August. I thought the subject … [Read more...]
Training The New Guy At The Classic Car Auction Company
January 27, 2018 By 7 Comments
by Mike - We are into the 2018 classic car auction season with the kick off in Arizona last week. It seems like an OK start but I thought there were not as many great cars as in years past. The sale of the Iso Grifo Prototype for $1.76 million at … [Read more...]
The Speedster Sale That Shook The Collector Car World
December 6, 2016 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss and David Lawrence Silver - When word filtered out that a 1957 356A Porsche Speedster had sold for $660,000 at auction, it was assumed by many that, ho hum, that had to be one of the rare 4-cam Carrera Speedsters. … [Read more...]
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