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Collector automobiles, provenance, auctions, restoration and the collections that preserve automotive history.
Collecting
Retromobile 2026: The Auctions That Moved the Market
Gooding and Christie's replaced Artcurial as the official Retromobile auctioneer and topped the week with a record 9.1 million euro Ferrari 288 GTO. The message from Paris: the market has moved on, and it is choosing its icons carefully.
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Preservation vs Restoration: The Collector's Hardest Choice
A barn find with its history intact or a concours winner with its history erased? As the market learns to price originality, the preservation class has become the most interesting argument in collecting.
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Restored Twice, Correct Once: The Duesenberg SSJ's Long Road Back to Black Lacquer
Harry Yeaggy's Pebble Beach-winning 1935 Duesenberg SSJ was stripped to a bare chassis and rebuilt around fragments of original paint. Inside the forensic approach to restoration.
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The $747.9 Million Week: What Monterey 2026 Really Said About the Collector Market
Record totals, a new benchmark for American cars, and a charity Ferrari that drew $40 million. A sober look at which numbers deserve the word record, and which merely got loud.