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Dutch private classic car museum is selling out

September 2, 2017

About two years ago, the private De Rijke Museum in Oostvoorne, the Netherlands, closed its doors. Founder Cees de Rijke had died not long before and the family did not see any possibilities to keep the museum going. De Rijke, the founder of the De Rijke transport company, had collected around 200 cars and 80

De Rijke Museum, Epic Auctions, Lincoln, trucks

The famous Bothwell Collection is to be auctioned

September 2, 2017

Auction, News

The Bothwell Collection is on sale. Bonhams will be auctioneering around 50 pre-war race cars and some horse-drawn streetcars on Saturday, November 11th in Los Angeles, California.

Collector Lindley and his wife Anne Bothwell made their fortune growing oranges in California. They were avid classic car collectors and were, in fact, classic car pioneers. They

Benz, Bonhams, Bothwell, Mercedes, Peugeot, Simplex

Hagerty takes over DriveShare: Airbnb for classic cars

September 1, 2017

News

If you like classic cars but don’t own one, don’t worry, you can now rent one from classic car owners in your neighborhood. Well, if you live in the USA you can. Hagerty has taken over the peer-to-peer classic car rental website DriveShare. Hagerty is one of the largest providers of classic car insurance in

Airbnb, DriveShare, Hagerty, USA

Mecum Dallas auction will be held, despite floodings

August 31, 2017

News

Despite the floodings in southeast Texas, the Mecum Dallas 2017 auction will still be held on September 6 – 9 at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The auction house announces this on their website. “Our hearts go out to all of those recently impacted by the disastrous flooding experienced in and

auction, Dallas, Mecum, Texas Hurricane Harvey

Special one-of-a-kind auction at Ferrari in Maranello

August 13, 2017

Auction, News

To commemorate Ferrari’s 70th anniversary, RM Sotheby’s and Ferrari join hands in a one of a kind sale in Maranello. On auction will be around twenty Ferrari’s, the oldest dating back to 1950 and the youngest is a 2012 car. All in all the cars give an overview of the rich and varied 70-year history

auction, Ferrari, Modena, RM Sotheby's

Special Mercedes-Benz auction in Paris

August 10, 2017

Auction, News

A very special auction will take place on 15 October in Paris with the sale by auction house Artcurial Motorcars of around 60 classic Mercedes-Benz cars. The special thing is that 20 of these cars come from the private collection of Mercedes-Benz France. The company states that the auction will give collectors around the world

Artcurial, Mercedes-Benz

On auction

A heroic failure: the Australian Leyland P76 V8

Posted: January 22, 2020

British Leyland was already in big trouble when they decided to design a full-size saloon car for the Australian market. And guess what? It was even a pretty good car. But still, production stopped within two years. In the 1960s and ‘70’s the Australian car market was dominated by the large cars, like the Ford […]

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German classic car market is calming down

Posted: March 30, 2018

Prices of classic cars are stabilizing, at least in Germany. That is the outcome of the 2018-edition of the German VDA Oldtimer Index. The BMW 320 shows the highest increase in value this year. The constant rise of classic car prices has come to an end in 2017. Over that year, the Oldtimer Index of […]

Hitler’s Mercedes to be sold in Scottsdale

Posted: December 21, 2017

Next month, the annual classic car events in sunny Scottsdale have a very special guest. One that might send a shiver down the spine of visitors. It is the 1939 ‘Grosser Mercedes’ that transported Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during a parade in Berlin in 1940. It is well known that Adolf Hitler, the so-called […]

Daughter Tiffany takes over Dan Kruse’s auction house

Posted: September 4, 2019

A family take-over in Texas, USA: Tiffany Kruse starts her own auction house Republic Auctions. She more or less takes over from her dad, who has managed Dan Kruse Classics since 1972. San Antonio based Dan Kruse Classics has been one of the premier classic car auction houses, the business started as early as 1972. […]

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OldtimerDAILY

Dutch private classic car museum is selling out

The famous Bothwell Collection is to be auctioned

Hagerty takes over DriveShare: Airbnb for classic cars

Mecum Dallas auction will be held, despite floodings

Special one-of-a-kind auction at Ferrari in Maranello

Special Mercedes-Benz auction in Paris

A heroic failure: the Australian Leyland P76 V8

German classic car market is calming down

Hitler’s Mercedes to be sold in Scottsdale

Daughter Tiffany takes over Dan Kruse’s auction house

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