Events Summary

Following the recent news of impressive consignments to the Bonhams 2014 Scottsdale Auction, Bonhams is very pleased to announce the consignment of the exceptional 1951 Ferrari 212 Export Touring Berlinetta chassis number 0088E, better known as �The Tailor's Car.� This remarkable racing-bred V-12 Ferrari was delivered new to Italian tailor and racing driver Augusto Caraceni of the eponymous fashion house. Founded in 1913 by Domenico Caraceni, �The Father of Italian Tailoring�, the House

Gooding & Company, the auction house acclaimed for selling the world�s most significant and valuable collector cars, is thrilled to announce that its annual Scottsdale Auctions on January 17 and 18, 2014 will feature one of the most collectible and superior offerings of post-war Mercedes-Benz to come to auction in recent years. This important

Fitted with a 4.9-litre V12 engine developing 330 brake horsepower and clothed in spectacular lightweight Pinin Farina all alloy open bodywork, the 375-Plus was entrusted by the Scuderia Ferrari works racing team only to the bravest and most skilled racing drivers of the day.

RM Auctions, the world�s largest auction house for investment-quality automobiles, is delighted to announce additional premier highlights for its highly anticipated annual Arizona sale, January 16 � 17, at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix. Celebrating its 15th year, the well-established sale is set to kick off the company�s 2014 auction calendar

Since its creation in 1976, Rétromobile has focused entirely on classic collectors´cars. A world leader in its field, since the early 1980s it has taken place at the Parc des Expositions, Porte de Versailles, Paris. In 2014, the show will be moving to hall 1, occupying 41,000 square metres of exhibition space � that´s 8,000 square metres more than in previous years.

Gooding & Company, the auction house acclaimed for selling the world�s most significant and valuable collector cars, is excited to announce the addition of several rare-to-market coachbuilt Ferraris to its annual Scottsdale Auctions on January 17 and 18, 2014. The offering features some of the greatest sports cars ever made including a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series 1 Cabriolet (estimate: $4,000,000-5,000,000), a one-of-a-kind 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Coupe Speciale (estimate: $2,400,000-3,000,000), a 1956 Ferrari 410 Superamerica Series I Coupe (estimate: $2,250,000-2,750,000) and a 1952 Ferrari 212 Inter Coupe (estimate: $1,700,000-2,200,000).

More than 40 years ago Tom Barrett and Russ Jackson held their first collectors car auction in Scottsdale, over the following years the auction week in January became a fixed date in the auction calendar and today no less than five auction houses start their season in Arizona. Unlike other auction locations that are associated with concours or race events (like Pebble Beach, Amelia Island, Le Mans or Goodwood)

On 09 January 2014, at a reception at their new headquarters building in London, Bonhams announced that they have been given the privilege of offering the Ferrari 375 Plus, chassis # 0384 AM, at their sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2014. As anybody who watches classic Ferrari movements knows, this car has been the subject of a long running ownership dispute, which Bonhams have been instrumental in resolving, allowing the car to be offered for sale without any legal encumbrance hanging over it.

RM Auctions, the world�s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, kicked off its 2014 auction season on a fantastic note once again this week, realizing an impressive $45,563,450 million in sales* with 85 percent of all lots sold at its 15th annual Phoenix, Arizona sale.

Bonhams� third annual auction during the Scottsdale Car Week was a smashing success, nearly doubling last year�s total and quadrupling that of the first year.
Held on Thursday, January 16th under warm and clear desert skies at the beautiful Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, the anticipated auction exceeded pre-sale expectations. Buyers from around the world filled the sales tent to capacity with many more bidders participating online and by telephone.

Gooding & Company, the auction house acclaimed for selling the worlds's most significant and valuable collector cars, realized more than $49.4 million during its Scottsdale Auctions. The auction house sold 110 of 117 lots, which resulted in a 94% sales rate and an impressive average price of $449,650 per car sold. Eleven new world auction records were established with six cars sold above the $2 million mark and 13 cars sold above the $1 million dollar mark during the well attended two-day auction at Scottsdale Fashion Square. These superb results demonstrate the ever-increasing demand for the rare, best-of-category collector cars that Gooding & Company specializes in bringing to market.

Half time at the 23rd Cavallino Classic, the driving part of this year�s Ferrari meeting in Palm Beach came to an end with the second track day at the Palm Beach International Raceway, formerly known as Moroso. Just before the static displays of the concours at the Breakers and the final Mar-a-Lago multimarque concours the Ferrari enthusiasts once more had the chance to enjoy their cars on the circuit. Whereas yesterday was just free practice today saw some competition with three races sorted by age of the cars with the drum break and disk break era of Ferrari and a separate pre-war race..

The 23rd edition of the annual Cavallino Classic started today with the first of two track days at the Palm Beach International Raceway. As in previous years the first day saw just few cars on track and looking at the prices just from last week�s auctions in Arizona it is not a big surprise that less and less cars of this value are raced these days.
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The F14 T is the sixtieth car built by Ferrari specifically to take part in the Formula 1 World Championship. The name comes from the combination of the current year and the introduction of the turbo-compressor in the Power Unit.

The third day of the 23rd edition of the Cavallino Classic in Pam Beach saw the main event, the Ferrari Concours at The Breakers. Early in the morning the first cars drove down the driveway of the five star hotel to be set up at the lawn. Sorted by age the earlier Ferrari were traditionally set up on the upper lawn starting with the oldest example right at the entrance of the field with the 1948 Ferrari 166 Spyder Corsa (016I). This little Spyder was brought to the USA early in its life by Luigi Chinetti and was raced by Briggs Cunningham and Sam Collier with the later having his fatal accident in exactly this car.

Sunday fell the final curtain of this year�s Cavallino Classic, the first highlight in a very young classic car season. The Cavallino Classic was already in its 23rd edition and within this time it became the most important Ferrari event in the year attracting both American collectors and some from overseas. One week after the auctions in Arizona many Europeans took the chance for a prolonged stay in the warmer climate of Florida instead of flying back to the European Winter.

RM Auctions, the world�s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, is delighted to announce the highly successful results of its debut sale in Paris on the 5 February, 2014, posting a total sales figure of €17,701,680, with 80 percent of all lots sold.

The Grand Palais Sale is one of the Bonhams�s Blue Riband auctions and saw a 1929 Bugatti Type 35B sell for €1,610,000 (£1,340,000/$2,200,000).
Regarded by many as the most spectacular venue in which to conduct a motoring auction, crowds flocked to the Grand Palais in their hundreds to witness many bidding battles, including that for the Grand Prix Bugatti previously owned by Jack Lemon Burton and Lady Mary Grosvenor.

This year's Rétromobile was held on the second weekend of February. As in recent years the 39th edition of the oldest classic car trade fair in Europe opened its doors on Wednesday morning after the media preview for the visitors who were waiting impatiently in long queues at the entrance.

For the third year running, Artcurial Motorcars has set a new record at Retromobile for the largest sale of collectors' cars to be held in France, with a total of €29-million during the two-day sale, including after sales. The auctioneer and former Le Mans racing driver Hervé Poulain celebrated 40 years of collectors' cars sales by taking to the rostrum for some ten hours over two days. The 1931 Bentley 8-litre Sportsman coupé by Gurney Nutting made the top price of €2,190,400 during the sale on Friday 7 February

Barrett-Jackson, The World�s Greatest Collector Car Auctions�, announced today the strongest sales results in the 43 year history of the Scottsdale car auction. Over the course of six days, nearly 1,400 vehicles were sold at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale event totaling more than $113 million in sales. Barrett-Jackson�s auction week attracted numerous celebrities, top car aficionados and collectors alike with some of the world�s most valuable collectible and coveted vehicles. Among other notable celebrities, Sir Stirling Moss made an appearance and rode across the block in the third highest selling car, the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe.

The Ferrari California T epitomises elegance, sportiness, versatility and exclusivity: characteristics that have distinguished every California model since the 1950s.
The California T boasts striking standards of innovation while retaining signature features such as the successful 2+ concept, a refined cabin and, of course, the retractable hard top (RHT) which transforms it from a chic coupé into a sleekly sophisticated spider in a mere 14 seconds.

2 Daytona Spyders offered at the Retromobile for €2,5mio .. a Maserati 3500 GTi Vignale Spyder was sold for PDS 660,000, €801,479

Lately several Maserati 3500 GT Vignale Spyders moved for €500.000 +++ to new stables ... Experts see prices in the near future in the range of Ferrari 250 GT PF Series II Cabriolets and BMW 507 Cabriolets (€1.5mio +) ...

Daytona Spyders and Ferrari 330 GTS follow California Spyders

The 84th Geneva International Motor Show ran between 06 � 16 March, and featured the usual attractions of new models and concept cars from both major manufacturers and niche market brands. The show is also a showcase for the latest technical innovations in the quest for greener forms of transport, whether it be electric, hybrid,

The original Casa Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena adjacent to the house in which Enzo Ferrari was born, which also forms part of the complex, and which opened in March 2012, recently had its management transferred to the Ferrari organisation, and was temporarily closed for a short period for refurbishment and rejuvenation. The new museum, renamed Museo Enzo Ferrari, fittingly opened on Tuesday 18 February, which for those with short memories was Enzo Ferrari�s date of birth in 1898.

RM Auctions, the official auction house of the world renowned Amelia Island Concours d�Elegance, continued its record-setting 2014 auction calendar this weekend, achieving the company�s best-ever Amelia Island results at its 16th annual sale with a total of $35,947,500 and 97 percent of all lots sold. This represents a 34 percent increase over 2013 sale results while bidders hailed from 18 countries around the world with 20 percent representing new clientele.

Gooding & Company, the auction house acclaimed for selling the world's significant and valuable collector cars, realized $30.9 million during its Amelia Island Auction. The auction house sold 78 of 88 lots, which resulted in an 89% sale rate and an impressive average price of $396,839 per car sold during the well attended auction at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation.

Die Techno-Classica in der Messe Essen ist der Mittelpunkt der Oldtimerwelt. Diesen Ruf bestätigte die Weltleitmesse für klassische Fahrzeuge 2014 erneut eindrucksvoll: Rund 190.000 Automobil-Enthusiasten strömten in die Messehallen und das Freigelände. Das entspricht dem hohen Niveau des Vorjahrs, trotz Streiks im Nahverkehr und Traumwetter. Das Angebot der rund 1.250 Hersteller und Händler war in diesem Jahr so vielfältig wie nie zuvor: 27 Marken der internationalen Fahrzeugindustrie präsentierten sich dem Publikum aus aller Welt; rund 2.500 Fahrzeuge standen zum Verkauf.

A 1937 Horch 853 and 1958 Scarab won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March 9, at the 19th annual Amelia Island Concours d�Elegance, which attracted approximately 29,000 spectators throughout the weekend. The Horch 853, owned by Bob and Anne Brockinton Lee of Sparks, Nevada, took home one of the most sought-after trophies in classic car pageantry, the prestigious Concours d�Elegance award. This fully restored automobile is one of only two Horchs ever to have been bodied by coachbuilder Voll & Ruhrbeck, which created custom coachwork for Bugatti, Maybach, Mercedes-Benz and Cord among others. Exhaustive efforts were made to restore this silver 853 to original standards, with no part going un-researched as to authenticity or originality by the restoration team.

The second day started early in the morning with the competition classes leaving the parc fermé in Dijon for the 402 kilometres to Mulhouse with two special stages and the second race of the week at Anneau de Rhin.After a short stint on the motorway the first special stage was held just after the first hour so the competitors had to be awake from the first minute to keep up their chances in the classification. After the close results of the first day with 10 cars within a minute every second on the twisty special stages counted and none of the favourites did

Goodwood Road Racing Club�s hotly-anticipated 72nd Members� Meeting caused a sensation as its inaugural running took place in front of a highlyenthusiastic crowd on March 29-30.
The most important new historic motor sport event in over 15 years featured more than 400 iconic racing and rally cars going wheel-to-wheel and several high-profile celebrity appearances as the four Houses of Goodwood fought tooth-and-nail for the Goodwood House Trophy - Anthony Reid�s Methuen House eventually beating rivals Torbolton, Darnley and Aubigny.

Early in April the first of this year�s big rallies starts again at Paris with the scrutineering at the Grand Palais. 237 cars and their crews were lined up for the technical inspection before their start to the 23rd edition of the Tour Auto tomorrow morning early at 6:30 am. As the eligible cars are limited to the original period of the Tour de France Automobiles it was again a colourful mix of French, German, British and Italian car ranging from a small Renault 4CV to the sportive Porsche 906 or brutish De Tomaso Pantera Group 4.

This year�s Tour Auto is on its way to the destination in Marseille. After the scrutineering the day before with the check of the cars, the safety equipment and the paperwork finally the cars are on the road and the track.

Very early in the morning (6:15 am) the first cars from the competition plateau 3 left the Grand Palais to the official start at Chateau Vaux le Vicomte, due to the unpredictable traffic in the French capitol this first leg was neutralized, the official timekeeping just started at the chateau, where a small breakfast formed the basis for a long day.

Thursday was the longest day of this year�s Tour Auto. After 475 km, two special stages in the morning and the races at the Circuit du Bresse the third day ended at the spa resort of Aix-les-Baines at the Lac du Bourget. For the first special stage at Montbeliard the Tour had to take the motorway to go South-West for about 70 kilometers adding to the high amount of kilometres the crews had to take under their wheels. This is not uncommon on the TA to have these junctions between interesting spots for the high speed trial on closed roads. After the chase over the small country roads the tour led through a canyon, due to the early morning sun just a few sun rays found their way over the surrounding mountains of the Jura. After the chilly temperatures down there the road climbed up so the participants could enjoy the drive in perfect sunshine.

The second to last stage of this year�s Tour Auto led from Aix-les-Bains to Valence, capitol of the département Drome. Situated in the region of the Rhone-Alps this day was expected to have some nice hillside roads and the participants were not left disappointed. As today there was no track racing in compensation no less than three special stages led the tour through the twisty mountain roads of the region. Although this was the shortest leg of this year�s Tour Auto the lack of highway miles and the slower speed in the mountains did not make this day much shorter than the other ones.

From 17th to 20th of April 2014, the 11th edition of Top Marques Monaco gathered once again the most outstanding cars in the world, along with superboats, luxury watches and even helicopters. Hosted in the Principality of Monaco at the Grimaldi Forum, this event enabled the audience not only to view the cars but also to drive them on the Grand Prix Formula 1 circuit.

C´est fini! This year�s Tour Auto is history...After 1900 enjoyable kilometres on five days including 9 special stages on closed off country roads and four circuit races the Tour reached the final destination at Marseille. With total driving times of 10 hours a day over a full working week the TA is certainly one of the most demanding rallies in the historic car circus but also one of the most satisfying.

A bright but chilly morning, at the Brooklands Museum complex near Weybridge in Surrey, greeted participants and visitors for the always popular Italian Car Day run by Auto Italia magazine. The fine weather attracted massive crowds to the gathering, and they were rewarded not only with a splendid variety of Italian automobiles and motorcycles, but with weather that just became better as the day wore on, with a very agreeable ambient temperature by lunchtime.

The first round of the 2014 European Le Mans Series took place at the Silverstone circuit on Saturday 18 April, with practice and qualifying sessions on the preceding Friday. The race was billed as the 4 Hours of Silverstone, and was a prelude to the FIA WEC race on the Sunday. There was a good entry, with a total of 38 cars spread fairly evenly between the three classes, 11 in the LMP2 group, 13 in the LMGTE one, and 14 in the GTC class.

The opening round of the 2014 FIA WEC series, witnessed the arrival of a new contender for overall honours, the Porsche 919 Hybrid, joining Audi and Toyota in the quest for supremacy in the series. The arrival of Porsche back on the main stage of endurance racing certainly seems to have hit the right chord with race fans, as despite a distinctly grey and chilly race day

Two weeks ago this year�s Tour Auto finished in Marseille after a total distance of almost 2000 km through France, back then we reported on a daily basis from the event ( see Scrutineering, Day 1 , Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 ), now with some distance of time it�s about looking back at the participating cars.

Barkaways held their third annual Open Day on Saturday 26 April, and despite heavy early morning rain and a poor forecast for the day, there was a strong turn-out of clients in their Ferraris for this popular social gathering. Amongst those cars whose owners braved the elements were a 330 GTC, a pair of Dino 246s, a 575 Superamerica, a pair of F40s and a 360 Spider with the top down!

Boasting a sale total of €41,303,830 and with an incredible 93 percent of all lots sold, RM Auctions, the world�s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, has once again set the collector car market on fire with an incredible performance in Monaco this weekend. Taking place alongside the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, the sale saw records tumble as an international audience of bidders scrambled to secure some of the finest historic sports and racing cars ever offered at auction.

The second edition of the Motor Gallery exhibition was held at Modena�s Fiere exhibition centre, close to the Modena Nord autostrada junction, over the weekend of 10-11 May. The show occupied 41000 square metres of indoor and outdoor space, filling three pavilions with an eclectic array of Italian machinery, ranging from bicycles to supercars. Some of the rarer classic vehicles on display came from the well known local collections of Umberto Panini, Mario Righini and Francesco Stanguellini, with others coming from further afield and individual owners.

The second round of the 2014 European Le Mans Series was held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola over the weekend of 17 � 18 May, whose great elevation changes as it swoops through the hillside, were in sharp contrast to Round 1 at the virtually flat Silverstone circuit. The event attracted 38 entries and 37 starters, after Team Ukraine didn�t appear, to a do battle in three classes over a beautifully warm and sunny weekend. There were 9 starters in the main LMP2 class, and 14 each in the two GT classes, LMGTE for GT2 specification cars, and GTC for GT3 specification cars. In terms of numbers Ferrari 430s in both GT2 and GT3 form were the largest in number, filling nearly half the grid with 18 starters.

The temporary race track in the principality of Monaco is without doubt the most famous �circuit� in the Grand Prix calendar, if not even within all race series. Since 1929 the best racing drivers of every generation came to Monaco to measure with the tricky wormed roads in the street canyons at the Cote d´Azure, even the most talented having �their moments� at the unforgiving narrow track. Where a mistake on other tracks might lead into the gravel the race in Monaco today ends in the guardrails or even in the harbour back in the days as Alberto Ascari did in his Lancia in 1955.

There is a lot written on the most famous race in the world, following the red arrows through Italy over 1000 miles, back in the glorious era of road racing all the greats came to challenge the long distance race, mostly with Italian winners on Italian cars. After the last race in 1957 it just took 20 years to resurrect the Mille Miglia as a historic rally in the spirit of the origin, open for those cars running the original race as a regularity event.

A new exhibition opened at the Museo Ferrari in Maranello in April 2014, and is planned to run through to the end of the year. The theme is essentially Ferrari in the USA, very apt in the 60th anniversary year of official imports to the country, with particular emphasis on the state of California, in light of the recent launch of the new California T model, hence the exhibition title �California Dreaming�. The start of the new exhibition was coincidental with the inauguration of the newly laid out space and information centre in front of the museum, and was attended by Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo, together with the Mayor of Maranello.

The presentation of the Trofeo BMW Group set a glorious seal on the Concorso d�Eleganza Villa d�Este 2014 in Cernobbio, northern Italy, on Sunday. Visitors from around the world once again flocked to Lake Como in their thousands at the weekend to experience the parades of exclusive classic vehicles at the tradition-laden beauty contest for historic cars and motorcycles. The jury presented this year�s Trofeo BMW Group for �Best of Show� to the Maserati 450 S from 1956. The winner of the public vote, and therefore the recipient of the Coppa d�Oro Villa d�Este, was an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 GS from 1931.

The automobile museum at Le Mans has recently undergone a total revamp of the interior layout, with new galleries and new exhibits, portraying the history of the famous 24 Hour Race and also the evolution of the car itself. The new layout is essentially divided into six specific areas, which are in sequence as one enters the museum, each with its own theme, plus a temporary exhibition area. At the moment, and until September this year, the temporary exhibition celebrates Matra, with a trio of sports racing models and a F1 car as part of the display.

A 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB Competitizione Clienti, s/n 7477, built as a special order for early American Ferrari patron Alfred Ducato, will be offered for the first time in the automobile�s nearly fifty-year history at the Rick Cole Auction in Monterey, California. This exceptionally rare piece of Ferrari history is one of ten special 275 GTBs built as part of Maranello�s effort to homologate the 275 GTB as the successor to the 250 GTO

The annual Le Mans test day was held on Sunday 01 June, giving the majority of participants in the race over the weekend of 14-15 June the opportunity to see where they stood against the competition in the four classes, and also to fine tune their set-ups for the race. It was also open to competitors hoping to gain entry to the race in future years, thus there were a total of 54 cars running during the course of the day.

The Bromley Pageant of Motoring is billed as the largest one day classic car show in the world, and with around 3000 classic vehicle, plus a number of �modern classics� and motorcycles, it can certainly stake a valid claim to the title. A beautiful sunny and warm early summer�s day greeted participants and visitors alike, to the vast expanse of grass that is Norman Park in Bromley, Kent, just to the south of London.

Back in 1929 the first Hill Climb at the Gaisberg in Salzburg, Austria was organized by the Salzburg Automobile Club. Before the war the Gaisbergrennen had a very short history as the last event was held in 1933 before reappearing in 1952, in the following years the race became more and more important as the �International Hill Climb of Austria� became part of the European Hill Climb Championship. Up to 25000 visitors saw the light and nimble Maserati and Porsche Spyder racing up the hill or international racing stars like Hans Herrmann in the 1950s, the late 1960s saw one of the few appearances of the famous Porsche 909 Berg Spyder.

More than 50 years ago the first International Bugatti Meeting was held at the Scottish border in Great Britain and since that first meeting every year another national club has the privilege to organize a meeting for the Bugattisti. One year after the jubilee in Scottland the torch was passed to the German Bugatti Club were the preparation were already well under way when the entrants were said good bye in the highlands after a memorable week in 2013. Although it was a great challenge to succeed these organizers of the 2014 meeting prepared a superb program that does not need to be afraid of any comparison with previous editions.

Germany 2 - Japan 1, no not the FIFA World Cup, but the podium for the 82nd running of the 24 Heures du Mans, when Audi triumphed for the 13th time at La Sarthe, bringing two of its three cars home in the top two positions, whilst Toyota, who had won the two opening rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship, had to be content with 3rd overall. However, it was not an easy victory for Audi, and particularly their mechanics, as after the # 1 car was destroyed in a horrific high speed accident in the Porsche Curves in the Wednesday evening practice session, whilst being driven by Loic Duval, it was necessary to rebuild (what was left of) the car into a new tub.

A unique exhibition dedicated to the Centennial of Maserati was inaugurated in Modena this morning. MASERATI 100 - A Century of Pure Italian Luxury Sports Cars retraces the story of the Italian car manufacturer through an exhibition featuring some of the Trident marque�s most significant road and racing cars, plus a highly engaging show employing 19 projectors, enabling visitors to relive the most significant moments in the history of Maserati and to learn about the individuals who shaped its history. Staged in the futuristic Enzo Ferrari Museum, a stone's throw from the Maserati headquarters in Viale Ciro Menotti, the exhibition will run until January 2015. Considering the historic value of the models exhibited, this is the greatest exhibition of Maserati cars ever staged anywhere in the world.

The Classic & Supercar Pageant is organised by the St John�s Wood Business Association, whose Chairman is Clive Beecham, owner of the 2nd Stirling Moss 250 GT SWB Berlinetta, chassis # 2735 GT. One of the purposes of the initiative, along with others during the course of the year, is to promote the high street as a focal point of the community, in this case St John�s Wood High Street, close to Lords Cricket Ground in North London.

Hot on the heels of the Bonhams Motor Car Department selling £24-million-worth of mouth-watering machines at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the company announces �Ten Important Motor Cars from the Maranello Rosso Collection� are to be sold at its annual Quail Lodge auction on the Monterey Peninsula, California, in August.

When one asks owners of classic cars about their favourite events certainly the main events in Goodwood, Monaco, Le Mans or the Mille Miglia are most mentioned but surprisingly often also the small hill climb of Vernasca. To find out what makes this so special we headed to Castell´Arquato near Piacenza and when arriving in the small Italian village one could see the atmosphere that is so refreshing after the huge sponsor dominated events of the last months. Now for the 19th time the local Historic Car Club of Piacenza welcomed about 200 cars and their owners on the only bigger parking lot at the Arda at the bottom of the old town centre.

On the last weekend of June more than 200.000 visitors followed the siren call of the sports car racers, formula 1 bolides, touring cars, motorbikes and rally cars of the last 120 years to the south-west of England, the Festival of Speed should be the biggest event of its kind in the classic car calendar of the whole year. Although the FoS surpassed the traditional classic car event several years ago, latest with the end of the London Motor Show the major manufacturers saw the potential of Goodwood for the marketing of their products. In the last few weeks they set up an entire car city on the grounds of Goodwood house including huge temporary show rooms and outside activities.

The 7th Le Mans Classic, co-organised by Peter Auto and the Automobile Club de l�Ouest, fulfilled all its promises and attracted a bigger crowd as the 110 000-spectator barrier was broken. The weather also smiled on the event on Friday and a blue sky and high temperatures greeted the people who arrived for the early-morning opening of the gates of the circuit.

For more than 20 years now, exactly from 1993 on the Ennstal-Classic is held in the beautiful scenery of the Steiermark with the start and finish in Gröbming. Under the slogan �Driving in the last Paradise� the Ennstal-Classic became the most important event of its kind in Austria and one of the major in Europe during the busy summer months in the classic car calendar. With so many events going on it is difficult to visit every one and every year so after a year off we returned to Gröbming for this year�s edition on the second weekend of July.

Today, in a time where not few think that new cars all look the same as technical and aerodynamic needs do not leave much room for designers, the prestige and public perception of the manufacturer becomes more and more important to sell cars. On one side international motorsports is still a good way to draw people to the show room but the heritage became more and more important over the years to bask in the glow of fame of the past and associate the new cars to design icons of the last 100 years. Almost every major manufacturer is running a classic department and an own museum as well as sponsoring different types of classic car events for public relations, Mercedes-Benz is very active in the Mille Miglia, BMW has taken over the Concorso d´Eleganza at the Villa d´Este several years ago.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the last production year of the 250 series in 1964, namely the 250 GT Lusso, Brandon Wang organised a tour for friends with models in the 250 production range, which he named �Ferrari Le 250 Tornano A Casa�. If one wanted to be pedantic, one could say that the 250 LM continued in production after that, but only the first example was produced with a 3 litre engine, with all subsequent models having a 3.3 litre unit. The purpose of the event was to have a leisurely touring rally, taking in sights, culture, excellent accommodation in luxury hotels, together with fine food and wine to satisfy the inner needs, driving the cars in the manner to which they were accustomed.

Already for the 9th time the Schloß Dyck Classic Days were held in the surrounding of the moated castle near Jüchen between Mönchengladbach and Düsseldorf. Over these last editions the Classic Days grown to one of the most important events of its kind in Germany and when walking the parking lots one could see that the draw area is not just Germany as there are a lot of guests form nearby Belgium and the Netherlands.

The Ferrari 250 GTE on German license plates HB FH 88H, was sitting on a trailer with German license plates HB ZC 888 (in 2014 it is an enclosed trailer) and has been stolen including the trailer

The Monterey Classic Car Week is well under way with the first race meeting of the week at the Laguna Seca Raceway. A week before the actual Motorsport Reunion the first arrivals to the Monterey Peninsula had a fun weekend at the famous racetrack with no less than 12 different race groups sorted by type of car and year ranging from the pre-war cars to

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Today was the first appearance of most of the Pebble Beach entered car at the Pebble Beach Tour d´Elegance. Traditionally held the Thursday before the Concours the cars had to prove that they actually drive more than just on the field and over the ramp. Starting at the Pebble Beach Lodge the convoy is driving through the forest of the 17-Miles drive to enter the back roads to Laguna Seca where the cars can drive a lap at the famous race track including the corkscrew.

The Classic Car week in Monterey has arrived at its final days with the major events and the auctions coming up. First in the morning the Quail Lodge Motorsport Gathering opened its gates after the media preview at 10 am to the public. After the typical cloudy morning hours finally the sun came up and burnt away all the clouds for a sunny Friday at the Quail Lodge.

Today the Monterey car week with lot of events on the lawn and the race track came to an end with the highlight at the Pebble Beach Golf Course. The most popular and important concours d�Elegance in the whole world again attracted far more than 200 cars from all eras and countries to be awarded by an international jury with the desired class and special awards. Several classes included featured marques like Maserati in its Centenary (both street and race cars), Ruxton with 16 of about 19 surviving examples, the streamlined Tatras and most of all the highly expected Ferrari 250 TR class.

The progenitor of the Monterey auction scene, Rick Cole, returned in 2014, with a small but select array of cars on offer at the Marriott Hotel in central Monterey. He held his first auction there in 1986, when the historic gathering comprised of only two events, the races at Laguna Seca and the Pebble Beach Concours d�Elegance, thus introducing a commercial aspect to the events on the peninsula, which have grown exponentially since then. Nearly three decades later he has returned, and introduced a different approach to the traditional car auction scene, based on a similar pattern used by the major online auction companies.

Mecum auctions are �user friendly� and always fun places to be for the car enthusiast, not only is there a wide variety of machinery of almost every form of motoring genre imaginable, in all price ranges, but there is the relaxed atmosphere of the outdoor display areas, where one can wander and inspect cars at leisure, which is a complete contrast to the frantic banter in the brightly lit auction arena as the cars go across the block.

With 117 cars on offer and a 92% sell-through rate, the two-day auction, which many were dubbing the �sale of the year�, brought a total sales figure of $108,000,000 (£64,578,327 or €80,628,104). After Thursday night�s exciting, record-making sale of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, which made history when it achieved over $38-million, making it the most valuable car to ever be sold at auction, Bonhams went on to set several more records.

RM Auctions, the world�s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, celebrated its 35th anniversary in the collector car hobby on the weekend with its best performance to date: $143.4 million in sales with a strong 91 percent sell-through at its flagship Monterey, California sale. Held during the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d�Elegance weekend, the event ranks as the highest grossing collector car auction of all time, breaking the previous record set by RM in 2013. In addition, the sale also established a new benchmark for a single-day collector car auction, realizing more than $88 million during just four hours of lively bidding at its Saturday session.

Gooding & Company, the auction house acclaimed for its world-class automotive auctions and record-breaking results, realized more than $106 million at its Pebble Beach Auctions over the weekend. During the two-day sale, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance® sold 107 of 121 lots, which resulted in an 88% sale rate, with an average price of $990,699 per car and an impressive 30 cars sold for over $1 million. Auction records were broken throughout the weekend festivities, as new benchmarks in automotive excellence were set for 16 cars including a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider, a 1955 Aston Martin DB3S and a 1956 Maserati 250F, among others.

After a long and exhausting classic car season with more events than ever before the last beautiful weekends of the year are taken by several events at the same time. Since three years now the first weekend of September became the days of the different concours both on the island and the continental Europe with the Salon Privé and the Hampton Court Concours in London and new the Chantilly Concours in France before the final race meetings at Goodwood, Spa and Paul Ricard.

The more conventional vehicles were wide ranging, both in age and price, the oldest example on offer being a 1909 Hotchkiss Type T Coupe de Ville, which was in largely original condition, and which sold for £39,200. This was closely followed by a 1914 Minerva Type KK Tourer, which from the catalogue description was an older restoration, and certainly needed some elbow grease to polish up the brassware, and this sold for £50,400. At the other end of the age spectrum, and also in the higher echelons of the price league, was a 2003 Ferrari Enzo, which sold for £952,000, whilst a 1989 Ferrari F40 made £761,600.

This is the end of an era and so I have decided to leave my position as Chairman after almost 23 marvellous and unforgettable years in addition to those spent at Enzo Ferrari�s side in the 1970s.

It is more than ten years ago that the last international concours was held in Paris after the Louis Vuitton Classique did a last attempt to keep the former annual event alive in the gardens of Saint Cloud. Formerly held in Parc de Bagatelle the LV Classique was the counterpart to the concours in Hurlington Club in the UK and the Villa d´Este Concorso d´Elegance at Lake Como but without a proper main sponsor this kind of events are not feasible anymore and so few concours are remaining in Europe.

What was intended as a once in a lifetime opportunity was so successful amongst the collectors that the organizers decided to make this an annual events. Rather than looking for one new location (as Windsor Castle was not available for an annual Concours) the event is intended to do a tour through the royal palaces so after the rather small St. James house near Buckingham Palace last year the concours moved on to Hampton Court in 2014.

But with all these events during the year what is it that attracts the crowd especially to this venue and for those never visited Goodwood it might be a mystery but all those who have will certainly agree: because it is the best way one can spent a weekend with classic cars and vintage atmosphere. Some have tried to copy the concept in smaller form but it will be never achieved outside the tradition-conscious United Kingdom.

With 106 motor cars and 172 lots of automobilia, Bonhams Goodwood Revival Sale was the most successful yet, achieving an all time high of £15.4 million. Racing ahead, the famous Lagonda LG45R Rapide Sports Racing Two-Seater, or 'EPE 97' as it's popularly known, set a new world record. Arguably the most visibly recognisable pre-war sports racing car, the sale highlight achieved £1,569,500.

The 12th edition of the Auto Classico classic car show was held over the weekend of 03-05 October in the Exponor exhibition complex, located a short distance from Porto airport. As part of the show, there was a race track and paddock, where a variety of predominantly rally cars did flame spitting, rubber burning and waste gate popping and banging runs, through the course of the weekend. As part of the external features of the show there were displays by various one make or model clubs, who also participated in tours around the city in convoy at various times during the weekend.

After the Pre-Reunion at Laguna Seca finally the Classic Car week in Monterey was kicked off with two very different events. Early in the morning the private tour of Sir Michael Kadoorie was started at the Quail Lodge golf course where the Motorsport Gathering will be held on Friday. Usually Kadoorie and several of his close friends use the calmer first days of the week for a small tour in the hinterland of Monterey and the nearby wineries to have a relaxed tour and taste some wine and good food along the road.

To celebrate Ferrari�s 60th year in North America, Maranello has returned to its 1950s and 60s tradition of producing strictly limited edition, built-to-order cars. The result is the F60 America, of which just 10 will be produced. The new car combines our American clients� two great passions � the V12 engine and open-top driving � and is being unveiled tomorrow evening at an anniversary celebration gala dinner at Beverly Hills City Hall.

The Beverly Hills were alive with the sound of music on Sunday 12 October! Not the voice of Julie Andrews from the musical, but the music of close to a thousand Ferrari V6, V8 and V12 engines as they congregated on and around Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, to celebrate 60 years of Ferrari in the USA. The location of Beverly Hills in the northern suburbs of Los Angles was chosen, not only for its chic location amidst all the boutiques of the world�s major fashion names, but because California is the largest Ferrari market in the USA. It was to have been Luca di Montezemolo�s last public appearance

For many years now the Car Week at the Monterey Peninsula before the final concours d�Elegance at Pebble Beach is the centre of the classic car world in the middle of August. Over the last decades an ever increasing number of shows, auctions and race days on the nearby Laguna Seca race track attracted enthusiasts, collectors and classic car dealers from all over the world to California to enjoy the largest gathering of blue chip cars imaginable.

The 31st edition of the Auto e Moto d�Epoca show took place in the Fiera di Padova between 23 � 26 October. Billed as �Quattro Giorni di Passione� (Four Days of Passion), the show certainly lived up to its subtitle, with a tremendous array of classic cars and motorcycles on display, covering almost every genre of motoring and more. The eleven halls of the exhibition complex were crammed with a wide variety of offerings, and then there were also large outdoor parts and vehicle sales areas between the main halls, providing a feast of interesting subjects, spanning many decades, for the motoring enthusiast.

Ferrari�s new FXX K research and development programme receives its world premiere next weekend at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. The laboratory-car is based on Maranello�s first hybrid model and will grace the world�s tracks from next year onwards. The K in its moniker is a reference to the �KERS� kinetic energy recovery system it adopts in maximising its track performance.

The Collectors� Car Department at Artcurial has discovered 60 collectors� cars, all major marques dating from the early days of the motor car through to the 1970s. Found following fifty years of lying dormant, the Baillon collection will be sold by Artcurial Motorcars in the first part of the traditional sale at Retromobile Salon, on 6 February 2015

Gooding & Company, the record-setting auction house acclaimed for selling the world�s most significant and valuable collector cars, announced today the addition of two superlative Ferraris to its Scottsdale roster. New consignments include a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider (estimate: $8,000,000-$10,000,000) and a 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica SWB Coupe Aerodinamico (estimate: $4,000,000-$5,000,000), making the January 16 and 17 auctions a must attend event.

RM Auctions, the world�s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, will present an incredibly diverse roster of 127 blue-chip motor cars and select memorabilia at its 2015 Arizona sale. Returning to the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, January 15 � 16, entries for the 16th annual auction span the spectrum of the market, upholding the company�s reputation for presenting the finest examples of the world�s most iconic brands.

Bonhams is thrilled to announce the addition of several exquisite cars from the most desirable name in performance motoring: Ferrari. Joining the recently announced, trophy-ladened 1966 Ferrari 275 GT Competizione that captured headlines worldwide, are seven additional cars from the respected Italian marque.

The annual Bologna Motor Show was held between 06 � 14 December at the Bologna Fiere exhibition complex, featuring almost everything associated with two and four wheel motor transport, both for the road and competition. The show also features an outside live action arena, where every day there are a variety of activities on different courses that are laid out, ranging from motocross, through drift displays, GT car challenges, to the always popular Ferrari F1 Pit Stop Challenge on the final day, which this year featured Giancarlo Fisichella doing the driving duties.