Founded in 1990 as a fundraiser for the Phoenix Art Museum, the Copperstate 1000 has burgeoned into one of the preeminent vintage rallies in America. It offers fine lodgings for a four-day all-inclusive trip on an unbeaten, carefully curated trail.
While I am drawn to many vehicles because of their design, my real joy comes in driving. There are certainly cars that might be considered by some to be a bit “visually challenged” but nonetheless deliver a rewarding experience behind the wheel.
The recent ‘generational shift’ in collecting may actually be examples of ‘mature’ collectors seeking a more comfortable, reliable and usable ride. It’s one of those rare instances in which we Baby Boomers can share an opinion with the Millennials without embarrassment or explanation.
With winter drawing to a close, time has come to take that car out of the garage – or just revel in the season of chrome and convertibles. Not going to Amelia? No problem, here are some great events for getting your automotive fix this weekend.
Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island auction is the penultimate sale of collector cars in this year’s Amelia Island weekend festivities. The docket is headlined by an estimated $32,000,000 worth of Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsches.
The Amelia Island weekend, home to one of the nation’s premier concours d’Elegance, begins in earnest on Thursday, March 10th, 2016. The days to follow promise three separate auctions of high-end cars and a chance to see and show the most distinguished automobiles.
I had owned a 1967 Mercedes-Benz 230SL shortly after graduating college and loved that car for its purely mechanical appeal. The younger 230 SLK had so much of the same DNA it was remarkable. It felt like a modern roadster, yet was unmistakably Mercedes.
Held on this Saturday, the third annual Concours in the Hills is a rare mixture of world-class autos and a relaxed, no-tie, no-glove atmosphere. This year promises a diverse field of Prewar, Postwar, domestic, and exotic cars arrayed around one of the world’s tallest fountains.
Looking back on the first five weeks of classic car auction sales in 2016, the immortal words of Mr. Dickens come to mind. Depending on which sale to which you consigned your car and what your car was, it was either the best of times or very much the worst of times.
