TCG Stories

For a short time, the impressive reach and results of Bring A Trailer auctions made some pundits question whether the large, booze-fueled in-person car auction was dead. Mecum, Barrett-Jackson, and all the rest were immediately seen as dinosaurs in a tech-laden age, no doubt helped by co-mingling restrictions ushered in ...

Adam Levine, frontman for the pop-rock band Maroon 5, is learning the hard way how a classic car can be misrepresented at even the highest levels of the hobby. Various outlets reported this week how Levine is suing a renowned collector dealer for selling him a Maserati Ghibli drop-top with ...

As you likely have figured out, we love documentation here at The Common Gear. The idea of documentation, of course, goes well beyond just maintenance records; documentation also includes details like build sheets, competition history, and of course, the official invoice from AMG when you fork over the cash to ...

In 2022, Barrett-Jackson organizers heralded a return to normalcy as one of the highlights of the first major in-person event held by the famed auction house. The numbers suggested attendees were riding high as well, as Barrett-Jackson notched record total sales to the tune of over $203 million in automobile ...

Recently, a sale on the enthusiast auction site Bring A Trailer raised a few eyebrows - namely, almost the entire internet. A high sale price on the digital auction platform is not all that unusual; after all, Bring A Trailer has a long waiting list because of the above-market numbers ...

One of the rarer vehicles on the north Georgia property - and really, it's legitimately rare - is a 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS Golden Anniversary edition. Like so many other General Motors special edition models, it was purely cosmetic in nature, but with less than 330 examples made, it seems ...

I recently bought a 1999 Porsche 911 sight unseen out of Georgia, off of the Porsche Classifieds of America classifieds. Now, I've done this enough to know that when it comes to cars that either cost a certain amount or have a reputation for being potentially needy that a pre-purchase ...

The last few years have been incredibly stupid. And for a lot of folks, they were hard. But the worst part about this is the rampant price gouging implemented by everyone, from the donut shop on the corner to the too-big-to-fail airlines. Forget the prices of 2019; the pandemic may ...

Every time I explore the property in north Georgia with the hundreds of vintage cars and trucks and thousands of motorcycles, I'm constantly amazed at how often I find vehicles I've never seen before despite walking this entire property well over 100 times. 

Before I came home a few weeks ...

For the years I've been helping my uncle unload a ton of cars, trucks, and bikes from his property in north Georgia, there's been one item I've been hesitant to list for sale. And given my uncle wasn't eager to part with it, it didn't seem to be hurting any ...