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If there’s anyone at Hemmings who doesn’t dig wagons, they haven’t had the courage to speak up about it. Wagons bring almost the same performance as a sedan version, but were almost always produced in much lower numbers. There were innumerable clever packaging solutions in the back, like jumpseats, two-way doors, sliding cargo trays and […]
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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 […]
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Tagged Auction Pulse, auctions, Barrett-Jackson, collector car values, DeSoto, DeSoto Adventurer, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Daily, Palm Beach, WWG
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Nowadays, it’s not necessarily a headline grabber if a Duesenberg makes a million bucks at auction, and there are a couple dozen “auctions of a lifetime” every year. Not so in 1985, when Harrah’s conducted the next-to-last of their liquidation sales and Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, bought a 1929 Duesenberg Model J […]
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Tagged auctions, Bill Harrah, collector car values, Duesenberg, SIA Flashback, Tom Monaghan