I've forgotten my dream of owning a Harlequin Trabant with air horns, because I have found something even better Over There, in the land where our heroic doughboys braved mustard gas and Minenwerfers to fight the Kaiser: a 1959 Simca Chambord. The evolution of the Vedette R gence, the body of the '59 Chambord showed…
As if we needed more evidence that car racers in the first part of the last century had cojones the size of western Massachusetts, "La Bestioni" is going up for auction. The 1919 "Beast of Turin," a twin-seat boat-tail racer built on the frame of an American La France fire truck, is powered by a 14-liter six-cylinder…
One Barrett-Jackson attendee and fan of the Ferrari Daytona replica sounds off re: our correspondent's portrayal of one of the kit cars on the block. The exact quote was "Crockett and Tubbs wouldn t be caught dead in this cheesewagen."
Our top-secret Barrett-Jackson correspondent reports on the sale of GM's Futurliner — a mega-bus designed by Harley Earl and built for GM's Motorama presentations in 1950.
Our top-secret man at Barrett-Jackson notes the high-profile sale, last night, of a 1970 Chevy Chevelle LS6 — an awesomely fast and even more awesomely rare 454-powered droptop.
Our secret-agent man in the scene at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale this week brings us this tri-wheeled oddity, a 1959 Heinkel Trojan, which went on the block earlier today. Its history can be traced to aircraft engineer Ernst Heinkel who built a prototype after seeing the similar ISO (later BMW) Isetta at …
With two posts already devoted to porpoisefull (heh heh) auto paint jobs by Yanni of the airbrush, Christian Lassen, imagine our surprise when a tipster revealed a 1990 Lamborghini LM002 "Rambo Lambo" once owned by Lassen has popped up for sale on eBay. With Lassen's mammalian subjects so undisturbed as to make a basket …
Imagine you're at some high-profile collector-car auction. You fall for some rare hottie on the block, but don't have enough data stored in the ol' meat computer to make an educated bid. Now imagine you had access to reams of information on other cars like it that sold at auction — the auction company that offered it, …
Barrett-Jackson's PR team has gone into overdrive, figuring out ways to package and repackage the lineup of cars to be auctioned at its Scottsdale event for maximum press coverage; and we bite just about every time they say boo. This time, the story is on the seven serial-number one vehicles to be on the block (no…
This awkward-looking Lands Precedent could be the rarest vehicle we've ever seen on eBay for under ten grand. One of two prototypes built by Lands Motor Company of Elkhart Indiana, the Precedent is a nearly forgotten V8-powered luxury van. It's so rare, in fact, that the only other online reference we could find is a…
