Auctions

I've bought and sold books for years and I never get tired of the thrill of the chase for that rare or special edition. The thought of walking into a…

1974 Datsun 240Z Super Samurai Sold by Silverstone Auctions, £46,688  The last time this example of Datsun tuner Spike Anderson’s work appeared at auction it realised £16,100. That was 14…

Spring has sprung and you can’t buy a classic car for love nor money. At least not in the traditional manner, for a cursory glance at the private classified ads…

Four-wheeled rally cars from the early 21st century don’t come much more covetable than this Subaru Impreza S10, because it’s the actual car in which Petter Solberg won the 2004…

If you close your eyes and try to imagine a quintessential Formula 1 car from the 1960s, there’s a good chance you’ll picture something like this – the 1964 BRM…

It’s always difficult to admit weakness from a position within an industry, but I’m sure it would be no great revelation if I state that classic car auctions as a…

2013 Land Rover Defender 90 Hardtop TD 'Bowler Challenge' Sold by Gooding & Company, £30,620 This was the first Defender built for the Bowler Challenge one-make off-road series organised by…

If you have regrets about failing to tackle a project during lockdown and are now fretting about having nothing to drive when we get the green light to return to…

1972 Matra MS670 Sold by Artcurial, £6.1m Chosen as our star sale car for the February issue, this Matra didn’t disappoint when it crossed the block at Artcurial’s Parisienne 2021 season…

Automobilia used to be a few items at the beginning of a car auction. Now there are specialist dealers and entire auctions devoted to the area. And just as with…

Competition cars are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Why? Because they’re so difficult to value. The market for each car is not wide, and there’s a…

A report by insurance company Hagerty reveals the impact Brexit will have on the classic car market, with extra bureaucracy and paperwork expected to hinder business. One such change is…

Edward Lovett certainly got his timing right when he founded the Collecting Cars online auction site in summer 2019. After coronavirus hit six months later, buying and selling through internet…

Throughout the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, MV Agusta enjoyed one of the most remarkable runs of racing success of any motorcycle marque in history: 250 grand prix wins, 37 manufacturers’…

Competition breeds success. It’s a statement that rings true throughout racing history. And perhaps at no moment was it more relevant than in Germany during the late 1980s. That was…

Well, what a year. We’ve all finished 2020 in a rather different world to the one we started with – and we’re perhaps never going back to the old ways.…

Mixed results at the year-end auctions in the UK and America suggest that the novelty might be wearing off when it comes to online sales, but continued uncertainty surrounding the…