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Supplement to Sports Car Market SportsKeith Martin’s Car Market Collecting, Investing, Values, and Trends The 2014 Insider’s Guide to MONTEREY Your Complete Resource For Monterey Classic Car Week n Schedules for Auctions, Concours, Rallies and Events n Auction House Principals Pick Their Best Offerings n Ruxton Makes a Rare Appearance at Pebble n 100 Years of Maserati Memories Tenth Annual Edition MONTEREY / Contents FEATURES 22 Auction Principals Roundtable The heads of the top auction houses pick their star cars — and sleeper cars — for this year’s Monterey sales 76 Maserati at 100 How has Maserati — through good times and bad — held its fascination as a symbol of speed, power and refinement? 84 Maserati Memories SCMers share their memorable Maserati moments 94 Monterey Insider Tips You can’t do and see everything on the Peninsula, but these tips will help you savor the cream of the week 102 Ruxton Automobiles Sixteen of the surviving 17 Ruxton cars will be on Pebble Beach’s 18th Fairway this year AUCTIONS & EVENTS 32 Auctions Mecum Auctions / 32 Bonhams / 34 Russo and Steele / 36 RM Auctions / 38 Gooding & Company / 40 Rick Cole Auctions / 42 SCM Insider’s Seminar / 42 50 Concours and Events ADVERTISER INDEX Carmel-By-The-Sea Concours On The Adamson Industries ���������������������������18 Hagerty Insurance Agency, Inc� 69 Avenue / 50 AIG Insurance ������������������������������������27 Hahn and Vorbach ����������������������83 Carmel Mission Concours / 50 Alain Pinel Realtors ����������������������12–13 Hamann Classic Cars �������������������95 The Little Car Show / 50 Alan Taylor Company, Inc ���������������91 Heacock Classic ��������������������������63 Gordon McCall’s Motorworks Revival 2014 at Amalgam-Fine Model Cars ��������������43 Heritage Classics ���������������������������73 the Monterey Jet Center / 52 American Car Collector �������������������88 Hilton Head Island Concours ������79 Hyman, LTD ������������������������� 3, 33, 39 / 52 Arizona Concours D’ Elegance �������14 The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering Aston Martin of New England ����������53 Intercity Lines ���������������������������������75 Concorso Italiano / 52 Auctions America ������������������������������45 JC Taylor���������������������������������������105 Porsche Werks Reunion / 54 Automotive Restorations Inc ������������60 Kastner & Partners Garage ���������67 Legends of the Autobahn / 54 Autosport Designs Inc ���������������������103 Kendall Bend Porsche ������������������11 Barrett-Jackson ��������������������������8 –9, 27 Kevin Kay Restorations �����������������41 The Barnyard Shopping Village Ferrari Berlinetta Motorsports LTD� �������������101 Legendary Motorcar Company ��20 Event / 54 Blackhawk Museum ��������������������������56 Lucky Collector Car Auctions ���108 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance / 54 Blackhawk/Auto Collections Inc �����93 Mac Neil Automotive Products ��72 BMW Car Club of America, Inc� ������55 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca �26 66 Rallies and Racing Bonhams / SF ��������������������������������������21 Mercedes Classic Center ��������������2 Pebble Beach Motoring Classic / 66 Carficionado ��������������������������������������46 Michael Furman Photographer Ltd�� 90 The Quail Rally / 66 Carriage House Motor Cars �������������15 Michael Irvine Studios�������������������70 / 66 Cayen Collection ������������������������������77 Morphy Auctions���������������������������61 Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance Chequered Flag International ���������92 Motostalgia �����������������������������������87 Pacific Grove Auto Rally and Celebration / 68 Classic Assets Motorsports Center ���47 P21S ����������������������������������������������111 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion / 68 Classic Showcase ����������������������������113 Palm Springs Exotic Car Auctions ��65 Collector Car Price Tracker ������������112 Porsche Club of America ������������51 110 Cars as Art Concorso Italiano ������������������������������44 porsport�com ���������������������������������97 Automobilia Monterey Copley Motorcars����������������������������107 Premier Financial Services ���������115 Pebble Beach RetroAuto Cosdel �������������������������������������������������82 Quail Lodge Resort & Golf Club ��116 Credit Suisse ����������������������������������������28 Reliable Carriers ����������������������������37 Automotive Fine Arts Society Exhibition Dealer Accelerate ����������������������������89 Rick Cole Monterey �������������������� 4-5 D�L�George �����������������������������������������25 Road Scholars �������������������������������35 DJM Investments, Inc� �����������������������17 Russo & Steele LLC ������������������29, 57 REFERENCE Driversource Houston LLC ���������� 31, 81 SCM Monterey Insider’s Seminar ��106 Ferrari Financial Services �������������������71 Silver Collector Car Auctions ��48–49 16 Introduction Gabriel & Co� �������������������������������������74 Sports Car Market �����������������������114 58 Events Timeline Galerie Rue Toulouse ������������������������19 T�D�C� Risk Management �������������27 59 Area Map Going To The Sun Rally ����������������������62 The Finish Line ��������������������������������86 59 Phone Directory GTO Engineering LTD�����������������������6–7 Tom Vail’s All Ferrari Parts, Inc� ���99 Guild of Automotive Restorers ���������30 VintageAutoPosters�com ����������109 Gullwing Motor Cars, Inc� �����������������64 West Coast Classics, LLC �����������100 10 SCM 2014 MONTEREY SPECIAL MONTEREY / Introduction Sports Car Market Publisher Keith Martin It’s That Time Again Executive Editor Chester Allen Art Director David Tomaro by Keith Martin Digital Media Director Jeff Stites Managing Editor Jim Pickering lthough I’ve been going to Monterey Auctions Editor Tony Piff for over 40 years, Associate Editor Chad Tyson the first five were Copy Editors Yael Abel, David Tomaro Aas a mechanic on Hillary Senior Auction Analysts B. Mitchell Carlson, Dale Luginbuhl’s Rubber Chicken Novak, Carl Bomstead, Paul Hardiman (Europe) Racing team. I helped main- Auction Analysts John Clucas (Australia), Daniel tain our esoteric and home- Grunwald, Jérôme Hardy (Europe), Norm Mort built assemblage of race cars that included Hillary’s FP Giulietta (Canada), Phil Skinner, John Lyons Spider Veloce, Jere Brown’s FP/GP Lightweight Sprint (fitted Contributing Editors Steve Ahlgrim (Ferrari), Gary with a Solex carburetor for the G class, and Webers for the F. Anderson (English), Colin Comer (Muscle Cars), John That made for a busy time between races as we converted from Draneas (Legal), Donald Osborne (Etceterini), Prescott one induction system to the other), a BP Corvette and Joe Run- Kelly (Porsche), Thor Thorson (Race Cars) ion’s Saab two-stroke powered D/SR. Contributors John Apen, Diane Brandon, Marshall I don’t recall ever thinking about Ferraris as investments, or Buck, Miles Collier, Martin Emmison, Paul Hardiman, Jay Harden, Alex Hofberg, Simon Kidston, Ed Milich, where the collector car market was headed. In fact, what are Steve Serio, John L. Stein today’s collector cars were just sports cars then, with Porsche 904s and Cobras duking it out in A/P, and Shelby GT350s and Information Technology/Internet Brian Baker Jaguar E-types going at it in B/P. Financial Manager Cheryl Ann Cox My first exposure to a collector car auction in Monterey was Strategic Planner Bill Woodard in 1985, when I caravanned down with the Oregon Alfa gang Print Media Director Wendie Martin to attend the 75th Anniversary Celebration of Alfa Romeo at Laguna Seca. Executive Producer, SCM Television Roger Williams [email protected] That weekend, I went to the DoubleTree Hotel and pressed my nose against the chain-link fence surrounding the cars that ADVERTISING someone named Rick Cole was selling at his second annual Display Advertising Executives Monterey Sports Car auction. I couldn’t imagine paying the $5 Darren Frank it cost to look at the cars close up, so I walked around the display [email protected]; 877.219.2605 area and went back to the track. x 214 Cindy Meitle Then and now [email protected]; 877.219.2605 Just three years later, in 1988, we produced the first issues x 213 of the Alfa Romeo Market Letter, which has since evolved into Steve Kittrell Sports Car Market and American Car Collector. [email protected]; 877.219.2605 x 211 Since then, every year we have been at Monterey, diligently Advertising & Events Manager Erin Olson reporting every auction, concours and car show. [email protected]; 877.219.2605 x 218 This Insider’s Guide to Monterey, our 10th, represents the Classified Advertising only comprehensive guide to the events of Monterey Classic [email protected] Car Week. You’ll find information about all the events, plus a timeline that lets you help structure your week. SUBSCRIPTIONS As far as where the market is headed, I can predict with con- Subscriptions Manager Rich Coparanis fidence that we’ll see more record prices and totals. There seems [email protected]; 503.261.0555 x 217 to be no end to the wealth flowing into the market, which in turn Assistant Subscriptions Manager Cassie Sellman is shaking loose more great cars, as owners cash in on current [email protected]; 503.261.0555 x 219 market prices. To order new subscriptions or for questions about Come visit us and say hello. I am participating in the new current subscriptions 877.219.2605, x 1; Pebble Beach Forum on Thursday, on a panel with Wayne Ca- [email protected],