My Car Quest

April 20, 2024

The Arizona Auctions Kick Off The 2015 Collector Car Market Year

by Mike - The beginning of the 2015 classic car auction season was this past weekend in Arizona with the major auction companies recording record numbers totaling $270 million USD in sales. This does not include results from Silver and Russo and … [Read more...]

The Ferrari 250 LM Sells For 67% More Than The Ford GT40 Roadster – Is That A Surprise?

by Mike - These two very interesting cars were auctioned by RM recently in Monterey. The Ferrari 250 LM sold for 67% more than the Ford GT40 Roadster. Below are the summaries from the RM catalog of each car, the photos are mine from the RM … [Read more...]

We Had The Only Band In The Pits – Brief Memories Of Nassau Speed Weeks

by Mike - Ken Phillips is a friend and the original owner of my Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada (chassis No. 0256). He has been involved with fast cars and motorcycles all his life. Below, through a series of emails, he shared with me some of his … [Read more...]

Ferrari 250 LM

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Waiting For The Show

by Mike - Recently Zoltan Papp provided photos of great cars taking part in the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. This Post has been updated with captions from Zoltan. Today we are seeing some of those beautiful cars from a different point of … [Read more...]

The Last Ferrari To Win The 24 Hours of Le Mans – The 1965 Ferrari 250 LM At Amelia Island

by Mike - While most of the attention at the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans was focused on the factory team entries of Ferrari and Ford, it was a privately entered one-year-old 3.3-liter V12 Ferrari 250 LM which caused a major upset by winning, when … [Read more...]