Arizona Auction Week 2018: Fair Skies, Fabulous Crowds: Fab$$$

Record warm weather and auction records helped make Arizona Automobile Week a winner, start to finish. At the week’s granddaddy event at WestWorld of Scottsdale, the 47th Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions®, totaled more than $116.7 million in sales, a 99.1-percent sell-through and six individual auction records including a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette Custom Convertible (Lot #1348) which brought $440,000. Making a second year appearance at Salt River Fields, Russo and Steele sold 457 cars while hosting 50,000 car fans. Top car was a 1967 Chevrolet Cheetah (Consignment #2032), one of only ten original “Cobra Killers” known in […]

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2016 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Celebrates 100 Years

On June 26, the 2016 Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) –– “The Race to the Clouds” –– celebrated the 100th year of the annual invitational automobile/motorcycle competition to the summit of “America’s Mountain.” The second oldest motor sports race in America is held outside Colorado Springs, Colorado, the final Sunday of June. Sponsored by Gran Turismo, a Sony video game company, the race produces an overall winner and class winners in sidecars, motorcycles, semi-trucks, 1,400-plus horsepower electric vehicles and unlimited racers. This year’s winners were led by Romain Dumas, first overall and in the Unlimited Class, driving a […]

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