RM Auctions is calling its 2011 Arizona auction an unqualified success, posting a record $30.8 million in sales with a 96 percent sell-through — the highest ever in the event’s 12-year history. Helping boost the bottom line, four of the 180 cars offered sold for more than one million. Perhaps the most surprising of those […]
Herb Miska, whose incredible scratchbuilt models inspired the recent posts on the scratchbuilt Pierce-Arrow dump truck and MacDonald low-loader, recently emailed us with a request. See, he’s been working on a 1/18th model of the 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix racer, but has hit a brick wall in his research on the car: He has yet […]
Mercedes and Daimler-Benz are among the very few automakers still extant that were around to partake in the original London to Brighton drive, of which more than 30 cars participated on November 14, 1896, as England’s Emancipation Run. This event celebrated the Locomotives on the Highway Act, which raised the road speed limit from the walking pace of […]