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Despite the economy rebounding slowly or not at all, in-person automotive auctions have come roaring back to life with a vengeance. The collector car market is behaving in ways that are somewhat surprising, with classic muscle cars like the iconic Plymouth Superbird still pulling down very strong money when rolling ...

While the pandemic put a roadblock in front of in-person auctions at venues hosted by the likes of Mecum and Barrett Jackson, it appears to have subsided and even given way to a new in-person player. Broad Arrow Group was acquired by Hagerty not long after its debut, and is ...

I couldn't help but comment on this recent auction on Cars and Bids for a 2002 Audi S8. Gorgeous car, one-owner, and maintained by a dealer in Greenwich, Connecticut, that absolutely charges every one of its blue-blooded customers way too much for services they don't really need. 

The seller was ...

A few years ago, I caught wind of a largely air-cooled VW car show that happened each year in one of my favorite places: Pass-a-Grille Beach, Florida. Pass-a-Grille is a tiny village at the end of St. Pete Beach, and by Florida standards, it's old (which means, not very). I ...

After getting the Audi S6 off the island and home, it reminded me of another car on Martha's Vineyard I had forgotten about. 

A few years ago, I was asked to assess a rusty Chrysler New Yorker for a woman whose family owned a house on Chappaquiddick. She felt like ...

While there has been endless chatter about the many ways Bring A Trailer is smashing auction sales records, the traditional in-person events have also been ripping right along. Although there were significant dips at the height of the pandemic, those drops were clearly just moments in time. 

Mecum's annual Dallas ...

In a year marked by extreme turmoil in the markets and looming fears of an economic crisis, the 2022 Monterey Car Week and Pebble Beach auction showed that for big spenders, there is nothing to fear but fear itself. 

The auction, which typically represents the exclamation point on a week ...

Hagerty has done a bang-up job tracking the comings and goings of the iconic Monterey Car Week, an event that has seemingly grown at a rapid pace over the last few years. In general, despite many of us preferring to avoid human contact at our jobs and when buying groceries ...

It can feel like the only way to find a desirable collector car is to get a verbal tip not shared publicly. Forget craigslist, forget Facebook Marketplace - you're already fourth in line by the time you see it anywhere online. 

So it may be a shock to learn that ...

I want to despise Porsche sometimes. That is to say, I'd like to just pretend it doesn't exist - I don't need one - I'm not missing out. Their cars are of no interest to me.

But then they build yet another special edition or one-off that just checks all ...