Like all concours, Amelia Island’s is a beauty pageant for fine, generally vintage, automobiles. Esteemed judges pore over every vehicle with the highest regard for appearance and authenticity; every part of the automobile, from the trunk to the engine bay is subject to intense scrutiny.
A fitting way to end this year’s Amelia Island auctions, RM Sotheby’s is poised to sell almost 100 vintage and exotic automobiles on Saturday, March 12th. RM Sotheby’s is the official auction of the 2016 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance and comes packing some serious cars in its docket.
With winter drawing to a close, time has come to take that car out of the garage – or just revel in the season of chrome and convertibles. Not going to Amelia? No problem, here are some great events for getting your automotive fix this weekend.
Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island auction is the penultimate sale of collector cars in this year’s Amelia Island weekend festivities. The docket is headlined by an estimated $32,000,000 worth of Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsches.
While Ferrari calls the GTC4Lusso a “new four seater,” it is of course the revamped FF, the marque’s all-season GT and its first car with all-wheel drive. The FF proved that a properly equipped high-speed GT could do what most drivers use a luxury SUV to do, only much faster.
Bonhams Amelia Island auction starts off the famed motor week on Thursday, March 10th, 2016. As always, our team of experts are watching the auction closely to ensure they are well equipped to assist you, should you seek to add any of the cars on offer to your collection. Here are a handful of their picks from the auction.
The Amelia Island weekend, home to one of the nation’s premier concours d’Elegance, begins in earnest on Thursday, March 10th, 2016. The days to follow promise three separate auctions of high-end cars and a chance to see and show the most distinguished automobiles.
If you want to drive a 911 often, one that combines the visceral personality of a classic with modern power, handling and comfort there’s one number to consider: “993.” That is, of course, Porsche’s model designation for the last of the air-cooled Elevens.
I had owned a 1967 Mercedes-Benz 230SL shortly after graduating college and loved that car for its purely mechanical appeal. The younger 230 SLK had so much of the same DNA it was remarkable. It felt like a modern roadster, yet was unmistakably Mercedes.
