Barrett-Jackson rings up $68 million in sales

Barrett-Jackson sold a total of 1,245 cars at no reserve at its Scottsdale show this year, for a final tally of $68 million. The top sale of the event was a custom 44-foot speed boat with a matching 2008 Corvette Z06 coupe that were auctioned off together for $742,500. Of course, the big newsmaker from […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1936 Oldsmobile ambulance

The Pavlovian response among most car guys upon hearing the name of the coachbuilder Henney is to think Packard professional car. But that’s not the case with this 1936 Oldsmobile ambulance bodied by Henney and now waiting in the Arizona desert for somebody to come along and give it a proper restoration. From the seller’s […]

Rescued from anonymity

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 […]