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A monument for the 1980’s

A monument for the 1980’s
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The Porscche Strosek 928 makes you wonder about the meaning of the word ‘classic’. The word ‘timeless’ gets pretty close. After all, a classic car is appreciated at all times: both when it was new, and when it is old.

The Porsche 928 is such a car, for instance.

It was revolutionary at its

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Rare streamlined MG on sale in Monaco

Rare streamlined MG on sale in Monaco
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Go on, google it. You won’t find many of these 1935 MG PB Airline Coupes. This very rare example is part of Coys’ Monaco sale on May 11.

In the 1930’s the auto-industry discovered that streamlined cars could also be very beautiful.

So in America, Chrysler built their Airflow and in France Figoni & Falaschi

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Japanese hardtops are hot

Japanese hardtops are hot
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Cars like this Nissan Skyline don’t come about very often. At least not in Europe. This 1986 R31 hardtop is probably the only one in the UK.

The Japanese brands have produced some great sports cars, but they also managed to build several really fast saloon cars.

This is one of them. This hardtop fourdoor

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Decline in number of classic cars sold at auction

Decline in number of classic cars sold at auction
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The number of classic cars sold in auction declined in Q1 of 2018. Most expensive was a Pininfarina’s personal Ferrari 275 GTB, at over 8 million dollar.

In the first quarter of 2018, the 35 major auction houses worldwide sold 6,344 classic cars in auctions.

The amount of cars sold at auction is much lower

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