After our story last week about Barrett-Jackson introducing a reserve at their Palm Beach auction, we had a lively and – thank you – largely constructive debate on the merits of the reserve and no-reserve formats. Not surprisingly, Barrett-Jackson has been having a long internal discussion on this, too, and we talked with Craig Jackson […]

Barrett-Jackson has gone a long way as the No Reserve auction company, but that wasn’t the case in Palm Beach last weekend, where for the first time in seven years they accepted a reserve on certain consignments (those they valued at over $50,000). They’re not completely happy with the results, however, as the sale came […]

Formula 1 world champ Jenson Button has come up with a new sideline: By buying a sports car, seemingly at any price, he can drive it for a year or so and sell it at auction at a profit. His latest is a real cracker, a 1978 Ferrari 512BB he bought last April at H&H […]