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The Season of the Road
Buzzing like a multi-colored swarm of bees, the cars of the California Mille cruised through Bodega Bay on California Highway One. It was the morning of day four, and Wendie and I had pulled over for a quick espresso and to stretch our legs.This... [ read more] |
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Flying in the Star
The Martins and Flying Star owner Paul Emple
Location, location, location. The mantra of real estate agents, it applies equally to concours and vintage tours.Who can deny that a significant part of the appeal of the Pebble Beach Concours d... [ read more] |
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The Allure of the Automobile
Portland, Oregon is a quaint town. Bicyclists swarm in their own lanes, groups of runners go clomping by like gazelles or hippos—depending on their body mass—and there always seem to be a few happy people in line at the medicinal marijuana... [ read more] |
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Sea Change in Scottsdale
By now the Scottsdale numbers are familiar: $160m in total sales, very close to the record $167m set in 2007. 2,221 cars sold. Attendance up at every event, and strong individual prices across the board.But the biggest news to come from Scotts... [ read more] |
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Collector Agonistes
Saved searches and RSS feeds are now the Pandora’s Box of my collecting life. Years ago, I would get giddy and feel the onset of the red mist once a month when Hemmings arrived (by first-class mail, of course). And when I went to an auction or... [ read more] |
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The Rattling Road to Reno
My first car was a 1959 Bug Eye Sprite that I bought in 1966, on the day I turned 16 and got my license. The Bug Eye was just seven years old at the time. Today, we think nothing of buying a seven-year-old car—doesn’t 2004 sound like new?But... [ read more] |
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
I felt like I had entered a tinkerer’s medieval blacksmith shop. Vintage Gran Prix Bugattis from the 1920s and ’30s were strewn haphazardly about the courtyard of the tony Chaminade Resort and Spa in Santa Cruz, CA, and seemingly half of the... [ read more] |
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Yelberton and the Duesenberg
When I was growing up in San Francisco, my grandparents and I watched the ’49ers play in Kezar Stadium. Or, more correctly, we drove to our weekend farm in nearby Novato, which was just outside the 30-mile blackout range of the broadcasts, to ... [ read more] |
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Gloriously and Completely Wrong
In our August, 2010 issue, I went out on an automotive limb and predicted that the aggregate total of the sales from the 2010 Monterey weekend would rebound from last year’s paltry $120m and reach the lofty, record-breaking plateau of $140m. T... [ read more] |
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Buy the Car, Start the Journey
There are two new members of the SCM menagerie, aka collection, representing opposite ends of the car world. The first is a 2006 Lotus Elise, the best new vintage car you can buy. The second is a 1958 Mercedes 220S, the beginning of the fabled S... [ read more] |
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Looking Into The Crystal Piston
Here are two extremes of collector car acquisition. The first is the barn find, where, wearing your "Tom Cotter Taught Me How to Buy Cars" T-shirt, you slog through the backwoods of the (usually southern) countryside, until you see the back of a... [ read more] |
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Happy Days are Here Again
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11. A direct consequence of that was the collapse of the collector car market. For instance, Daytonas, the poster children of the Ferrari market, fell almost overnight from their August 2... [ read more] |
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Buckets of Fun
"Not all who wander are lost." That's a fitting description of the day I spent trolling for treasure at the Portland Swap Meet. The largest event of this type on the West Coast, it has over 4,200 vendor booths and attracts more than 50,000 gearh... [ read more] |
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March Madness
I've just returned from a sensory overload collector car experience in the Sunshine State. Somewhere between RM's BMW 600 "limousine," Gooding's Alfa 2000 spider, Sam and Emily Mann's Mercedes 540K Special roadster, and the Collier ex-Martini Po... [ read more] |
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The Market Walks Tall
Two years ago, the art market had cratered, with both Sotheby's and Christie's suffering huge year-over-year declines in their annual New York sales.But on February 3, the market spoke with an authoritative voice, as "Walking Man I," a life-size... [ read more] |
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