Pebble Beach auctions 2021: sales Shangri-La
With thousands of vehicles and tens of thousands of enthusiasts flocking to the Monterey peninsula for Car Week, the top auction houses are presented with a captive audience whose love…
1952 Harley Davidson 'Captain America' Sold by Cord & Kruse, £205,310 If the ‘Captain America’ chopper used in Easy Rider isn’t the most famous motorcycle in movie history, what is?…
Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan does a famous skit on whether you’re going ‘out’ of an evening, or whether you’re going ‘out-out’ – the former being a semi-genteel evening partaking in…
Porsche 962-163 is one of seven cars which constituted the last batch of Stuttgart's Le Mans-winning machines, and could sell for over £1m
Raced by Mike Hailwood and David Hobbs at Le Mans in 1970; painted in the celebrated Gulf livery; and prominent in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans film; this Porsche 917 K…
Lord Hesketh says his team and its final car – the 308C – represented "a belief in a kind of English genius"
Jacques Villeneuve's FW18-3, with which he won three grands prix and famously used to overtake Michael Schumacher at Estoril, is up for sale at a price of £2.2m
The Richard Burns 2000 Rally GB-winning Subaru Impreza has remained in the same condition that it finished the event – unusual for a car of this provenance
As some readers may know, the past month has been an interesting one for us at The Market. That’s because the ladies and gentlemen at renowned auction house Bonhams (founded…
1947 Cisitalia D46 Monoposto Sold by Bonhams, £137,000 Piero Dusio’s Cisitalia D46 was developed as an affordable means of entry to a series of competitions intended to revive single-seater racing…
If you’re old enough to remember Tony Pond powering his MG Metro 6R4 to a heroic third place in the 1985 Lombard RAC, you’re likely a fan of what must…
Formula 1 teams really don’t like selling off their cars. I can remember once being shown around a Williams warehouse stacked to the rafters with old F1 cars, some 20…
The last ever Ford GT40 MkII to be made – one with a curious history – is going up for auction
Sought after special edition Lancer Evolution VI headlines Mitsubishi’s factory UK sale
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…