Auction Pulse: Mecum announces motorcycle division

1960 and ’59 Triumph 120s upcoming at Mecum Between their recent Kissimmee success and continuing efforts at Monterey, we’ve been guessing around the Hemmings offices about what Mecum’s next move would be. Would they muscle (ha) their way into Scottsdale? Stake out another concours as their own? Acquire another auction company to get access to […]

The days of FEDs and nitro

You could get lost for days in the hundreds of videos dedicated to vintage drag racing on YouTube. It seems just as many people were walking around the pits of their local dragstrips with video film cameras as they were with their Brownies, and one of those people was YouTuber jrsn2cars, who compiled his stills […]

Auction Roundup: Mecum at Kissimmee

Officially, Mecum Auctions‘ annual Kissimmee, Florida, sale is a wrap and the final numbers are interesting. During the five-day sale, a total of 1,500 automotive/truck/motorcycle/boat lots crossed the block, of which 73 percent sold for a total of $39.9 million; a week ago, it was estimated that the total sales figure could top $40 million […]