20/08/2012
Pebble Beach Week 2012: The highlights (Updated Friday)
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Pebble Beach week is the largest classic car event in the United States; a week-long stay here will put you among some of the most beautiful examples of the motor car ever made. We’ve summarised the highlights for you – from Pebble Beach to The Quail, and beyond.
Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo wins 2012 Pebble Beach Concours
Sunday, 19 August 2012
After careful deliberation, the judges decided that among some of the very finest cars in the world, it was the 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo owned by Paul and Judy Andrews from Texas, USA that was to be named 'Best of Show'... more >>
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2012: Photo gallery
Sunday, 19 August 2012
As always, the 'Dawn Patrol' was there to greet the first cars driving onto the famous 18th fairway at Pebble Beach. Just and hour or so later and the cars are on display. Let the judging commence... more >>
Gooding & Co., The Pebble Beach Auction, 18-19 August 2012: Review
Sunday, 19 August 2012
It was another impressive Pebble Beach sale for the Santa Monica-based house. Top-seller was – unsurprisingly – the ex-Von Krieger 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Special Roadster, a stunning car that achieved $11,770,000... more >>
$6.6m for the California Spider Prototype at Gooding's $115m sale
Sunday, 19 August 2012
It was the very first one, a car that started the line of super-desirable, potent Ferraris called 'California Spider'... more >>
Live from the saleroom: 'Von Krieger Special' 540K Mercedes sells for $11.77m
Sunday, 19 August 2012
One of THE cars of the 2012 Monterey-week sales has a new owner. Gooding & Co. hammered the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 Special Roadster down for an extraordinary $11.77m... more >>
RM Auctions at Monterey 17 - 18 August 2012: Review
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Twenty entries achieving over $1m each and five lots breaking the $5m mark contributed to RM’s best-ever Monterey-week sale. Overall, the auction grossed $95.2m and the star of the show was the ex-JW Automotive, Gulf Racing GT40 that sold for $11,000,000 – a new World Record... more >>
Cobras and Friends: Racing at 'The Track', 2012 Motorsports Reunion
Sunday, 19 August 2012
It wasn’t ONLY Shelby Cobras that featured at the 2012 Rolex Motorsports Reunion. It just felt that way. And were we complaining? No sir, and if the 50-year-old cars became a little too commonplace, there were plenty of others to look at... more >>
‘Shelby Festival’: 2012 Rolex Motorsports Reunion, first pictures
Sunday, 19 August 2012
My goodness, it was hot. And so was the action on the track, as 45 Shelby Cobras starred in one race, alongside many other cars carrying Ol’ Shel’s famous name… more >>
Live from the saleroom: World Record $11,275,000 for 1960 250 GT California Spider
Sunday, 19 August 2012
As part of its $60m+ opening sale night, Gooding has sold this rare, alloy-bodied Ferrari with competition-spec motor for $11.275m - a new World Record… more >>
Live from the saleroom: Gooding sells Jay Leno's Fiat 500 for $350,000
Sunday, 19 August 2012
A little car for a big man, but a buyer with a big heart has paid $350,000 - all of which will be donated to charity - for the chat show host's own Fiat 500… more >>
Bonhams' $13m 2012 Quail Lodge Sale
Sunday, 19 August 2012
The successful sale of the exciting Gulf Team Davidoff McLaren F1 GTR helped push Bonhams’ gross figure at its 2012 Quail Lodge Sale to over $13 million… more >>
McLaren MP4-12C Spider launched at Pebble Beach
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Antony Sheriff, McLaren Automotive's managing director, dropped the wraps on the Woking company’s roadster supercar at a private reception held at Gooding & Co’s Pebble Beach venue… more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM Auctions sells '14 louvre' TDF Ferrari for $6.1m
Saturday, 18 August 2012
It was the Classic Driver Monterey team's favourite car in this year's sales and it's just been sold - for $6,100,00. Sadly, we won't be making arrangements to ship it over to Europe… more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM Auctions sells 1953 Bentley R-Type Continental for $1,475,000
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Well, we always like them, and RM's example was wowing the crowds at Monterey this year, so perhaps it's not surprising that the black four-seater sold for an impressive $1.48m… more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM Auctions sells 2001 Bentley Speed 8 for $2.3m
Saturday, 18 August 2012
RM managed something of a coup to consign this genuine ex-Team Bentley Le Mans car. Tonight, Saturday 18 August, the Ontario-based saleroom sold it for $2,300,000… more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM Auctions sells 1955 Aston Martin DB3S for $3.35m
Saturday, 18 August 2012
RM has just sold the former Dutch-owned - hence the bright orange colour scheme - Aston Martin DB3S for over £3m - a hammer price of $3,350,000 to be precise… more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM sells Ex-Gulf GT40 for $10m, a new World Record
Saturday, 18 August 2012
RM created a World Record for a GT40 sold at auction when a succesfull bidder purchased the ex-Gulf 1968 GT40/Mirage for a colossal $10m…more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM Auctions sells Horch Special Roadster for $4.7m
Saturday, 18 August 2012
With the famous Pebble Beach Councours d'Elegance held only a 20-minute drive away, what better car to contemplate future concours lawn honours than this 1938 Horch..? more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM sells 1965 Shelby 427 'Comp' Cobra for $$1.35m
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Just a short while after the big red car roared and rumbled 'over the block', auctioneer Max Girado slammed the hammer down at $1,350,000. Sold!... the RM way... more >>
Live from the saleroom: $240,000 Ferrari Testarossa at RM's Friday sale
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Described as a "time capsule" in RM's Monterey catalogue, the 129-miles-from-new, 1989 Ferrari Testarossa stunned the saleroom when it was hammered down for $240,000... more >>
Live from the saleroom: RM sells 1955 Ferrari 410 S Berlinetta for $7.5m
Saturday, 18 August 2012
A car recently tested by Classic Driver, the magnificent ivory Ferrari 410 S Berlinetta, has just sold for a hammer price of $7.5m... more >>
McLaren X-1 Revealed at 'The Quail'
Friday, 17 August 2012
Within a few hours of news breaking that the British company had built a strictly one-off working concept for a discerning client, the car was revealed to the ultimate audience for such cars: visitors to this year’s ‘Motorsports Gathering’ at Quail Lodge... more >>
All Hail 'The Quail'! The 2012 Motorsports Gathering in pictures
Friday, 17 August 2012
Held in blazing Californian sunshine, this year’s sell-out Quail Lodge event was another day-long party celebrating everything that’s best in the world of cars, old and new... more >>
Topless on Pebble Beach: Monterey greets the BMW Zagato Roadster
Friday, 17 August 2012
It took just six weeks for BMW and Zagato to collaboratively create this: the Roadster version of the BMW Zagato Coupé first seen at Villa d’Este in May. The BMW Zagato Roadster is now wowing American crowds at Pebble Beach... more >>
One Man’s Magic: McLaren X-1 concept hits the headlines in Monterey
Friday, 17 August 2012
It all began with a car enthusiast. An (anonymous) enthusiast who already owned a McLaren F1, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and a 12C, but who wanted something even rarer; even more special. He wanted, says McLaren, ‘a machine that had all the capability of the 12C but wrapped in a unique body that reflected his needs and personality’. So McLaren agreed to build it for him... more >>
Touchdown in Pebble Beach: Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé Aviator Collection
Friday, 17 August 2012
Rolls-Royce chose Monterey as the venue to reveal its Phantom Coupé Aviator Collection, a series of just 35 cars which call on the company’s aviation history for their design details... more >>
Monterey and Pebble Beach 2012: The action so far...
Friday, 17 August 2012
There could only be one point of focus this year, couldn’t there? Yes, from casual parking in Carmel, to the saleroom, to the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance, one make and marque created the most attention: Shelby Cobra... more >>
Roofless: BMW shows surprise concept at Pebble Beach
Thursday, 16 August 2012
BMW has released a teaser image of an unexpected new concept due to be unveiled at Pebble Beach this weekend... more >>
Around the Monterey Salerooms 2012: RM Auctions
Thursday, 16 August 2012
With the viewing of Monterey-week auction cars now in full swing, Classic Driver toured the venues and picked some of the most eye-catching cars. First of all, RM Auctions... more >>
Around the Monterey Salerooms 2012: Gooding & Company
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Gooding & Company closes Pebble Beach week with its Sunday night auction. Here are some of the cars likely to make the headlines... more >>
In with the Jet Set: Gordon McCall's 2012 Monterey Party
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
And they’re off: the traditional curtain-raiser to Monterey week has just ended. Guests at Gordon McCall’s party held at the Monterey Jet Center enjoyed killer cocktails, fine food, even finer classic cars, new car launches and some interesting military and civilian aircraft... more >>
Pebble Beach Week 2012: The Little Car Show
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Big is not always beautiful. While the lawns at Pebble Beach and the salerooms of Monterey might only feature multi-million-dollar cars, elsewhere on the peninsula an event was held to celebrate the ‘Small Cars of the UK’... more >>
It Happened in Monterey 2012: On the street in Carmel-by-the-Sea
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The Concours on the Avenue might have just finished, but cars are still on display. As the great and the good start to arrive for another week-long Monterey classic car celebration, there’s plenty to look at in Carmel-by-the-Sea on an atmospheric Tuesday evening... more >>
Monterey and Pebble Beach 2012: Events guide and auction round-up
All around the world, the car-collecting community’s attention is focused on a peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean, just a two-hour drive from San Francisco International Airport. Here's what’s in store for visitors in 2012... more >>
Coming to Pebble Beach 2012: 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport
As a companion piece to Classic Driver’s video driving report on the one-off 1955 Ferrari 410 S Berlinetta, William Edgar tells the story of 0598CM, the potent ex-Scuderia Ferrari roadster once owned by his father and driven to great success on his behalf by Carroll Shelby in the 1950s... more >>
Gooding & Co., The Pebble Beach Auction, 18-19 August 2012: Preview
From the rarest racing cars and a ‘barn-find’ Ferrari 275 GTB, to the most desirable pre-War, pre-eminently ‘Pebble-able’ Mercedes, Rolls and Duesenbergs, David Gooding’s 2012 August sale has it all... more >>
Bonhams 'Quail Lodge Sale', 16-17 August 2012: Preview
With competition cars playing a leading role in the adjacent ‘The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering’, it’s no wonder so many significant racing cars highlight Bonhams’ 2012 Carmel sale... more >>
RM Auctions at Monterey 17 - 18 August 2012: Preview
How do any of the Monterey-week auction houses do it? Year after year, assembling the most amazing catalogues? (You could say the same thing about auction reporters, their bank of superlatives running worryingly low – but that’s another matter)... more >>
SWB Cal' Spider a last-minute entry to RM's 2012 Monterey sale
RM will offer an example of that bluest of blue-chip collectible Ferraris – a 1962 SWB 250 GT California Spider - at its 17-18 August sale... more >>
Early Ford GT and Ferrari collection added to Gooding’s Pebble Beach line-up
David Gooding’s Pebble Beach Equestrian Center sale is the traditional finale to a frantic week of classic car activity on the Monterey peninsula. This year, the catalogue has been boosted yet further with the addition of one of the earliest Ford GTs, along with rare Ferraris from the collection of Sherman M. Wolf... more >>
'Teardrop' Talbot-Lago and unique Ferrari 410 Sport to head RM's 2012 Monterey sale
On display at its 33.5m-euro Monaco event were two entries likely to feature among the multi-million-dollar results at RM Auctions’ 17-18 August, Monterey sale... more >>
All About Speed: Super-rare Ferrari driven
This car is all about speed: massive, easily maintainable top speed, giving it an edge on 1950s road races such as the Carrera Panamericana or the Mille Miglia. That said, this very chassis – 0594 CM – was never raced in period. .. more >>
RM to offer DB3S and significant racing Porsches
Adding colour to another blockbusting RM catalogue, the latest entries to its forthcoming August sale include a 1955 Aston Martin DB3S in Dutch racing orange and the bright red, ex-Jo Siffert, STP-sponsored 1971 Porsche 917/10... more >>
Bonhams: Early star cars consigned for Quail Lodge
The first highlights of this year's Quail Lodge sale, taking place on 16 and 17 August as part of the 2012 Monterey Week, have been announced by Bonhams. One particular eye-catcher is the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 NART Spyder with Le Mans history... more >>
RM consigns two Ford GT40s to its 2012 Monterey sale
A rare sight at auction nowadays, RM will offer not one but two of Ford’s ‘Ferrari-beaters’ at its forthcoming 17-18 August, Monterey-week sale... more >>
1997 McLaren F1 GTR ‘Longtail’ to star at Bonhams' 2012 Quail Lodge sale
A rare sight at auction nowadays, RM will offer not one but two of Ford’s ‘Ferrari-beaters’ at its forthcoming 17-18 August, Monterey-week sale... more >>
Text: Classic Driver
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