Bonhams sold an ex-Royal Mews Traveling Landau for $376,000 at its first ever Carriage Collection Sale in Oxford on March 7, 2015. Bonhams Private European Collection of Victorian Carriages and Coaches had a white glove result with a 100% sell-through rate achieving a total £1,147,765. The top result, the ex-Royal British Mews Landau commission by … Read more
At the Bonhams 2015 Amelia Island classic car auction eight cars may achieve a million dollars with pre-Second World War cars particularly interesting. The headline lot is a 1930 Cord Model L-29 Town Car with a Hollywood history while Marlene Dietrich’s 1930 Rolls Royce may also achieve a million dollar. The oldest car expecting to … Read more
Bonhams achieved results in excess of a million dollar on five cars at the 2015 Paris auction. The top result was €1,897,500 for a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Cabriolet followed by €1,219,000 for a 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Cabriolet. Of the three 1930s Alfa Romeos, only one cleared the reserve margin. A 1966 AC Cobra … Read more
Bonhams will return in March 2015 for the second time to Stuttgart for a single-marque classic car auction at the Mercedes Benz Museum. Around 40 Mercedes Benz classic cars will be on sale with the star of the show expected to be a1938 Mercedes Benz 540 Kompressor Cabriolet A. A 1960 Mercedes Benz 300 SL … Read more
Bonhams briefly set a new Scottsdale auction record when a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione sold for $9,405,000. Four classic cars sold for over a million dollar while a further five cars achieved highest bids of more than a million but failed to clear the reserve margins. These included four top-end, multi-million dollar classic Ferraris. … Read more
The Bonhams’ 2015 Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais classic car sale in Paris during Rétromobile will feature a range of historic automobiles living up to the posh name of this glamorous auction. Nine cars have pre-auction estimates exceeding a million dollar including three pre-Second World War Alfa Romeo 6C cars. Two 1960s … Read more
A 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione and a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Berlinetta are the top cars offered at the Bonhams 2015 Scottsdale classic car auction. Bonhams expects ten cars to clear the million-dollar mark at the annual mid-January Arizona sales including multi-million dollar results for five Ferraris. Three Mercedes-Benz 300 SLs will be … Read more
A 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB Alloy-bodied Berlinetta is to star in Bonhams New Bond Street auction on November 30, 2014 in London. In the final major classic car sale of the year, only 35 cars will be on offer, of which several are estimated to clear the million-dollar mark, including a 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C … Read more
New world records were set for 1930s sports racing Lagonda and OM cars at the 2014 Bonhams Goodwood Revival classic car auction. Two further cars sold for over a million dollars each: the almost obligatory Mercedes Benz 300 SL and a Ferrari F40. For once, a Ferrari was not topping the results despite 17 Ferraris … Read more
A 1936 Lagonda Rapide Sports-racing two seater is headlining the 2014 Bonhams Goodwood Revival auction on September 13, 2014. See also: 2014 Bonhams Goodwood Revival Auction Results Historic 1930s Racing Cars at Goodwood Revival 2014 The Goodwood Revival sales traditionally include a number of historic racing cars and the 2014 Bonhams auction is no exception. … Read more