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Event Alert: September 2010 Calendar of Automotive Events

September means the end of summer vacation, but the automotive festivities continue, including the Paris Motor Show at the very end of the month. We'll have a full team coverage in the City of Lights, but that's almost a month away. Between now and then there are hundreds of car-related events to keep all but the most rabid gearheads satisfied. While our coverage of Monterey and the Woodward Dream Cruise last month gave us a year's worth of classic and collectible car memories, September has a lot more to offer for classic car fans. ... Read more →

Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart drives into retirement with big sell-off Jonathon Ramsey

Ivan "Ironman" Stewart has retired, and the legendary off-road racer didn't play around when it came to getting out of the game. This weekend, 650 items from his 37-year racing career are being ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1970 Oldsmobile Toronado GT surprisingly awesome as camper Jeremy Korzeniewski

We certainly don't recommend yanking a perfectly good 1970 Oldsmobile Toronado off the road in order to convert it into a recreational vehicle, but in the case of today's eBay Find of the Day, ...

eBay Find of the Day: Porsche-built 1992 Mercedes-Benz 500E is the timewarp sleeper of our dreams Zach Bowman

In 1992, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche briefly entered into a love affair that would produce one very special offspring: the Mercedes-Benz 500E. The car was to become the godfather of all super ...

Pick your favorite cars and eBay Motors gives you prizes Zach Bowman

Unless you happen to be in the business of talk radio, chances are slim you'll ever find yourself getting paid just to voice your opinion. But hey, this is the internet. Anything is possible. And ...

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We obsessively covered Pebble Beach Week 15 days ago on Autoblog

As always, we made the annual trek to Monterey, California for Pebble Beach Week with laptops in tow and digital SLR cameras in hand to capture everything worthy of your time. As you can see by our assemblage of posts below, 2010 was another spectacular year for new and old. From a bevy of ...

Monterey 2010: Gooding smashes records at Pebble Beach auction 15 days ago on Autoblog

We witnessed several million-dollar cars go up for sale at RM's auction on Saturday night, but across town, the Gooding & Company auction had even more impressive metal crossing the block. Gooding's two night auction resulted in more than $64 million in sales, including six world records. ...

Monterey 2010: RM auction stacked with million dollar cars 17 days ago on Autoblog

RM Auctions always reserves its most prestigious cars for Saturday night during the Monterey car week, and this year's lineup of vehicles was one of the most impressive in recent history. No less than 14 cars broke the million dollar mark, although the highlight of the auction, a 1958 Ferrari ...

Monterey 2010: Blue Oval bargains kick off RM auction 19 days ago on Autoblog

The Monterey auctions kicked off last night with a special Ford-only sale put on by RM. Despite an offering of significant race cars and a slew of concept cars, bidding was sluggish and many of the final sale prices were well below the pre-auction estimates. Some of the concepts like the 2000 ...

Auction Action: Steve Saleen's pre-pro Ford GT up for grabs in Monterey 20 days ago on Autoblog

Steve Saleen has apparently gotten it in his mind to auction off his personal Ford GT. While we're not exactly ones to go all star-crossed over a vehicle's ownership history, this particular car is more than a plain vanilla GT with Saleen's name on the title. In fact, the car was never titled at ...

eBay Find of the Day: Gulf Racing DeLorean is a very bad idea 21 days ago on Autoblog

Don't get us wrong. We love ourselves some DeLorean, and we'd argue there may not be a more iconic motorsports paint scheme in history than the classic Gulf Racing livery. But sometimes, two rights make one horrible wrong. Such is the case with today's eBay Find of the Day. Call us purists if ...

The Next Best Thing: 1965 Ferrari 250 GTO Evocazione up for auction at Brooklands 22 days ago on Autoblog

Practical considerations aside, cost no object, if you could have any car ever made, what would it be? We'd bet that a large proportion of you would be thinking of the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO. Unfortunately, cost is an object for the vast majority of us. And considering how the iconic GTO is ...

Autoblog Monterey Classic Car Week Calendar 22 days ago on Autoblog

As you're reading this, several of us are on the way to Monterey, California, ready to provide tee-to-green coverage of the annual classic car week festivities. The real action starts with Gordon McCall's Motorsports Revival – aka The Jet Center Party – tomorrow evening and with ...

Mercury Messenger Concept up on the block at RM Auctions 1 month ago on Autoblog

"Mercury is a brand sending a message that modern design will lead its rejuvenation. Mercury is returning to its roots as a design leader introducing the Messenger concept, a distinctive and energetic high-performance two-seat sports coupe." So said Ford's former interplanetary brand when it ...

eBay Find of the Day: "America, #^$% Yeah!" Edition 1996 Vector M12 has its timing all wrong 1 month ago on Autoblog

The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Based on that description almost every person that has ever tried to start a new sports car company must be absolutely certifiable, Certainly, some of the people that dealt with Vector ...

Event Alert: August 2010 Calendar of Automotive Events 1 month ago on Autoblog

August is here, meaning it's time for our annual pilgrimage to Monterey for the smorgasbord of classic and collectible cars that awaits. Events there include Gordon McCall's Motorworks Revival, The Pebble Beach Tour, Concorso Italiano, The Quail, the auctions, The Rolex Monterey Motorsports ...

One-off SR-71 Mustang sells for $375,000 at EAA AirVenture 1 month ago on Autoblog

Generous giving can be a sign of how the economy is doing, and if the auction of the custom SR-71 Blackbird Mustang at the EAA AirVenture show yesterday is anything to go by, then things are looking up. Built in collaboration with Ford, Roush and Shelby, the one-off pony car was sold for ...

Gooding to auction 1995 McLaren F1 in Monterey 1 month ago on Autoblog

Gooding & Company's auction coinciding with this year's Pebble Beach Concours is coming up in a few short weeks, and the lineup of available cars is shaping up to be quite impressive. Already dozens of incredibly compelling and valuable collector cars are scheduled to make their way across ...

Fairfield County Concours d'Elegance star car is the 1939/47 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Vutotal Cabriolet 1 month ago on Autoblog

The star car at this year's Fairfield Concours d'Elegance will wear the Spirit of Ecstasy on her hood and no less ecstatic a design all along her body. The 1939/47 Rolls-Royce Phantom III "Vutotal" Cabriolet by Labourdette, now in the John Rich Museum collection, started off as a standard ...

eBay Find of the Day: Darth Vader's Z28 proves there's still good in him 1 month ago on Autoblog

There's a disturbance in The Force. Darth Vader owned a blue Z28. Tell us the truth...you thought all of Vader's vehicles were black, right? Well, this particular vehicle of his shows that he has, or had, a bit of a sunnier, more playful side as well. This teal 1983 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 5.0 ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1979 Lotus Esprit Turbo w/Buick Regal GNX power is inky hotness 1 month ago on Autoblog

What happens when you're head over heels for the lethal wedge styling and superb handling of the 1979 Lotus Esprit, but find yourself smitten with the all-out grunt of the turbo 3.8-liter V6 in the Buick GNX? If you're the intrepid creator of the particular car you see above, you mate the two, ...

Queen Elizabeth II's 1984 Daimler Double Six LWB up for auction 1 month ago on Autoblog

The list of accolades and honorifics attributed to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II goes on for miles. Not only is she the Queen of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom – the longest-serving monarch in their respective histories, at that – but she's also the reigning queen of ...

eBay Find of the Day: Czech out the 1956 Avia 750 MKIII streamliner 1 month ago on Autoblog

Bidding is over and this gem is gone, but it's a worthy look at history nonetheless. Czech company Avia, now a truck builder known as Ashok Leyland, built two-stroke, two-cylinder cars in the fifties that were converted to racers. Czech driver Miroslav Jurca got hold of one in 1956 and turned it ...

Concept cars highlight Ford-only day of RM's Monterey auction 1 month ago on Autoblog

The RM auction is always one of our favorite events during the Monterey classic car week, and this year's looks to be one of the best yet. In fact, there are so many vehicles up for grabs that RM has scheduled an additional auction day featuring just Fords. Some historically-important vehicles ...

Ford, Roush and Shelby team up for one-off charity Mustang inspired by the SR-71 Blackbird 1 month ago on Autoblog

For the last couple of years, Ford has played a big part of the EAA AirVenture, offering up one-off Mustangs at auction to benefit the association's Young Eagles program. Two years ago the AV8R Mustang brought in half a million dollars, while last year the AV-X10 'Dearborn Doll' earned $250,000 ...

1962 Mercedes-Benz 300SL headlines Baumberger auction 1 month ago on Autoblog

Part of the collection of the late Swiss enthusiast Peter F. Baumberger, a gentleman racer in his day and founder of the Switzerland's Ferrari club, this '62 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster is about as desirable as they come. It's in pristine condition and is one of just 209 examples built with the ...

eBay Find of the Day: Ex-Newman 1987 Nissan 300ZX IMSA GTO racer 1 month ago on Autoblog

Chances are, you've probably thought about what exactly you would buy if you had money bleeding out of every bodily orifice. Allow us to add another candidate to the list: Paul Newman's 1987 Nissan 300ZX IMSA racecar. Yes, that Paul Newman – the 24 Hours of Le Mans finisher and SCCA ...

Rare Aston Martin DB5 convertible drives $5.6 Million in sales at Goodwood 1 month ago on Autoblog

Britain has produced more than its fair share of memorable classics, but arguably few as seductive as the classic Aston Martins of the 1960s. Introduced in 1963, the DB5 benefited from several generations of DB4 development, largely retaining the Touring bodywork but replacing the old 3.6-liter ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1974 Dodge Dart Hang Ten is gnarly, dude 1 month ago on Autoblog

Ah, the '70s. Few decades are quite so easily identifiable by its products than the era that brought us disco music and... not much else. For proof, we need look no further than the cherry 1974 Dodge Dart Hang Ten you see above. While the car has gone through a mild restoration to return it to ...

Mouthwatering Italian classics join the Gooding roster for Pebble Beach 1 month ago on Autoblog

Pebble Beach is an octane-drenched event that never disappoints, and this year's event is shaping up to be no exception – but it will be exceptional. Already lined up for the August concours are the debuts of Morgan's new EvaGT and Ferrari's 599 roadster, with notable auction lots ...

eBay Find of the Day: Turbine-powered 1982 Porsche 928 spits flames, takes names 1 month ago on Autoblog

How often are you going to see the phrase "Flame Shooter" in an eBay Motors description? And of those instances, how often will the seller be referring to flames that emerge a Boeing T50 turbine shoved under the hood? This is one of those instances, wherein a fellow has installed a ...

RM Auctions buys Kruse's Indiana Auction Park 2 months ago on Autoblog

Kruse auctions' year-long trek to the abyss continues apace. In 2009, Dean V. Kruse's troubles flared up in Indiana due to mounting lawsuits from consignors who were never paid after their cars were sold, as well as banks that hadn't been paid for credit or loans. A $1.3 million judgment against ...

Manny Ramirez's 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo to be auctioned for charity 2 months ago on Autoblog

Call it our non-eBay Find of the Day: 1994 Porsche 911 (964) Turbo 3.6. 34,569 miles. Red/grey. One owner: Slugger Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers. While the car itself is a run-of-the-mill 964 Turbo – its 3.6-liter flat-six putting out 360 horsepower – that particular Turbo ...

Event Alert: July 2010 Calendar of Automotive Events 2 months ago on Autoblog

July means Independence Day to most Americans, but it also means racing, concours, auctions, shows, meets, rallies, and tons of other summer car fun. As July 9 has officially been dubbed Collector Car Appreciation Day, it's only fitting that we start off with a couple of vintage car events. The ...

eBay Find of the Day: 9,800-mile 1987 Chrysler Conquest TSi lays claim to world's best 2 months ago on Autoblog

We've got to say, we're inclined to give this one to the seller. The 1987 Chrysler Conquest TSi you see above has only managed to rack up a mere 9,800 miles in its 23 years on this planet, and as such, the car looks like it's spent the last two decades in a vacuum-sealed baggie. The current ...

2011 Audi A1 sells for over $525,000 at auction... and it's pink 2 months ago on Autoblog

Elton John puts on auctions throughout the year for his AIDS foundation. The latest auction fete, held at Elton's manor, included an Audi A1 "spin painted" by British contemporary artist Damien Hirst. The A1 is still so far off that it hasn't even been priced yet, but one hopes the MSRP will be ...

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Autoblog Podcast #193 - Hot Mustangs, Volt Mileage, 1 Series M, Mazda design and Lotus Evoras

Chris, Sam, Alex and Dan convene for Episode #193 of the Autoblog Podcast. We cover the Ford Boss Mustang and Roush supercharger package, the latest Chevrolet Volt fuel economy dust-up, the BMW 1 Series M Coupe, Mazda's apparent new design language and the Lotus Evora S and Evora IPS. Thanks for listening!