We needed to catch our breath after running into this during RM’s Auctions America sale at Auburn last month. The basic car is a 1926 Buick Master, only this one had been fitted when nearly new with custom ambulance bodywork by the Hoover Body Company of York, Pennsylvania. The Buick apparently did the bulk of […]

Hemmings has readers in Australia who are clearly well versed in what U.S. car enthusiasts are up to. Meanwhile, I’m woefully ignorant about Australian cars, with the exception of the two (I know of) that have been sold here: the 2008-2009 Pontiac G8, aka Holden VE Commodore, and the 2004-2006 Pontiac GTO, aka the Holden […]

1929 Bentley 8-Litre The Australian market underwent what may have been a unique convulsion last year, when Tim Goodman of Bonhams and Goodman simultaneously dismantled both the Bonhams and Sotheby’s operations in that country. Not surprisingly, it’s taken some time for everyone to get their act back together, but today both have their feet back […]