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Houston diary: roundup
You know you’ve had a good trip when a 1958 Aston-Martin DB Mark III drophead coupe is relegated to “leftover” status. But when you shoot 2,800 images, covering nine cars, an auction and a concours,...
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On Deck: 2010 Auburn Auctions and Festival
As the dust settles from another record weekend in Monterey, California, attention now turns to the upcoming 55th Annual Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival. Held in and around downtown Auburn, Indiana,...
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Auction Pulse: Auburn traveler
Things got really funky back in the last days of Kruse. Searching for a sale, cars crossed the block multiple times in the same auction, but with different lot numbers. When they didn’t sell, if the...
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Former Super Stock Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible offered by Worldwide
Among the consignments at Worldwide’s Houston Classic Auction Weekend is this 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible with buttoned-down looks that conceal a wild drag-racing past. The car is a stunning...
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Dragmaster Charger match racer to cross the block in Auburn
One of the three original Dodge Chargers – a cool artifact of drag racing yesteryear – will be auctioned off Labor Day weekend at Worldwide Auctioneers’ Auburn sale. The car is said to be the only...
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Auburn Auction Weekend: Worldwide Auctioneers
It used to be that there was only one auction during the famed Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Festival held annually on Labor Day weekend, but in recent years, Worldwide Auctioneers has brought several...
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Worldwide Auctioneers Reports $13.2 Million at Auburn Sale
The third part of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Festival extravaganza during Labor Day weekend was Worldwide Auctioneers’ three-day sale that began on September 2. Their fourth annual Auburn sale boasted...
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Tom Mix Duesenberg steered toward Texas auction
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers To start with, there’s no documented evidence that cowboy actor Tom Mix ever owned this particular Duesenberg Model J with custom speedster bodywork. As best as...
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Replica of Ab Jenkins record-setting Pierce-Arrow to cross the block
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. Until the 1930s, the international racing community hardly considered the Bonneville Salt Flats a suitable location for high-speed record setting. Montlhery in...
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One-of-50 Corvette Caballista nets $13,750 at auction
1978 Chevrolet Corvette Caballista. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The 1970s may have been a time of wretched excess, but customizer Les Dunham of Dunham Coachworks in Boonton, New Jersey,...
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One of 50 cars ordered by Fred Gibb, numbers-matching 1969 Camaro ZL1 to...
1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. Photos courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Central Office Production Order (COPO) Camaros are the stuff of muscle car legend. Just 69 were built with the aluminum ZL1 V-8,...
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A rare 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra Dragonsnake slithers to auction
1965 Shelby 289 Cobra Dragonsnake. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. First developed in 1963, the Dragonsnake was Shelby American’s Cobra offering for those who preferred their racing in...
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A Murphy-bodied Duesenberg Model J shines in Auburn
1929 Duesenberg Model J, with Murphy convertible coupe body. Photos courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted. Once the home of Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg, Auburn, Indiana, plays host to...
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Unrestored 1929 Studebaker house car shows how to get away from it all...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago...
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A Cobra 25 years too soon takes inspiration from customs and coachbuilts
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. What if Carroll Shelby had the ear not of Henry Ford II but of his father, Edsel Ford? And what if sports cars became a phenomenon in the United States not after...
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