Posts Tagged ‘auction’
Ah, the Bugatti Veyron. It's astonishingly powerful, sexy as hell, and only 300 will ever be made. Among the 300 Veyrons, the five rarest and most coveted models carry the Pur Sang moniker. It's stunning paint-free aluminum and carbon fiber body are bold enough to make even the wealthiest Dubai oil ......
Auction Action: GT500KR KITTs already on the block
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Barrett-Jackson auctions have seen no shortage celebrity cars cross the block, but is the sale of a pair of KITTs at the upcoming Palm Beach event a sign that the series has already succumbed to its crushing craptasticality? Given the movie's ratings, that's unlikely. It seems, rather, that we'r......
Dodge Challenger #43 brings $228K at auction
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Click image to enlargeThe first Challenger fetched $400,000 at Barrett-Jackson, and now #43 has managed to sell on eBay for a whopping $228,143.43. Of course #43 is no run-of-the-mill Challenger, as it's the only one (or, the only '08 model, at least) finished in B5 Blue paint, in a nod to "The King......
Delaware man spends $675k on license plate 6
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
If we didn't know better, we'd think there was a lack of worthwhile ways to spend money on cars; what with all the apparently obscenely rich motorists out there dropping enormous amounts of money on license plates – the one part of the car that the rest of us take most for granted.After the Britis......
eBay Find Of The Day: Challenger wagon
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
It's always dangerous to get excited about a car that looks halfway decent in pictures. This creative body project that was born from a very rare 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T SE is just such a car. Yes, the value of this car has been pretty well erased by the addition of an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser roo......
Fashion Plate: UAE license #1 goes for $14.5m
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Some records stay in place for a while, and some are shattered regularly. Records set for obscene spending on frivolity never seem to stay put for very long, however, as there's always someone with more cash to blow on something ridiculous. And so it transpires that after tuning magnate Afzal Kahn p......
eBay Find of the Day: Clearance Sale! Old Navy display pickup
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
click above for more pics of this Old Navy 1950s-era Chevy display truckChances are that any car nut who visits Old Navy in the mall has closely inspected one of these 1950s-era Chevy pickups while waiting for a significant other to try on the hottest new skort or cargo pant. It seems that at least ......
Tuner buys F1 license plate for record $870k
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
The phrase "cost is no object" was redefined last week when an aftermarket tuner dropped close to a cool million on a license plate. Yes, a license plate. The "F1" plate was first registered in the UK 104 years ago, when it was more likely a two-digit coincidence than a vanity plate, and until recen......
Child’s Play: recreation 1927 Baby Bugatti
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
As long as there are people out there willing to spend the money, the automotive industry will always offer increasingly expensive cars to satisfy them. And because the obscenely wealthy have kids, too, there will always be more costly ways to spoil them. So if the pedal cars we brought you last mon......
Scottsdale 2008: Gooding & Co sells Ferrari California Spyder for $3.3m
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
This year in Scottsdale, Arizona, Barrett-Jackson was garnering as much attention as ever, selling off all manner of first-edition American muscle cars and Monster Garage monstrosities. But it was Gooding & Company that set the big records in its first year at Scottsdale, selling 64 cars for a t......