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Gentlemen Start Your Lines of Credit
The beginning of Arizona's Barrett-Jackson auction shows no letup in buyer interest, with thousands pursuing the collector cars of their dreams
Investors often look to January to take the stock market's temperature. If the first day of Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction is a similar bellwether for the collector car market, then 2006 looks to pick up where 2005 left off. Sale prices continue to b ...
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Get Yourself A Great Deal On A Terrific Used Car
After four years of acceleration, used-car prices are sputtering, because of slackening demand and a glut of vehicles returning to dealers from expiring leases. That gives clever automobile shoppers the rare chance to buy two- or three-year-old cars at a lower price than they'd have paid for the same model a year ago. In the past 12 months, used-car prices have fallen by 2%, on average, after risi ...
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Muscle Cars Roar Onto The Block
Motorheads are making vintage gas guzzlers the new stars of the auction scene
Every year, thousands of motorheads from around the world flock to Scottsdale, Ariz., in late January for a series of classic car auctions. Prewar American favorites such as Duesenbergs or Packards and rarified European sports cars from the likes of Aston Martin and Jaguar used to be the main attractions, as they are a ...
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Used Cars Come In From The Cold
Used cars come in from the cold. With new-car prices spiraling and pushing consumers into buying more used cars, dealers are lavishing more attention on what was once the unfashionable side of their business, reports The Wall Street Journal. Dealers are responding to a five-year surge in demand for used cars, prompted by changing consumer priorities and the fact that the average retail price of a ...
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 | Follow That Bugatti Royale Driver And Step On It
It's the perfect automobile out of which to pass a jar of Gray Poupon. This 1931 Bugatti Royale, a 20-foot-long chauffeur-driven car, is known as the Mona Lisa of cars. Its estimated worth up to $20 million.
Here at the 25th annual Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction, all eyes feasted on this gleaming, dark-blue-and-silver classic with its equally long pedigreed name of "Bugatti Royale Type 41 B ...
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 | Home Car Shopping
WOULD YOU BUY a used car via TV? We couldn't imagine Americans doing so when we first wrote about Aucnet, Japan's highly successful used car auctioneer that operates via an interactive TV system (Dec. 7, 1992). The Japanese car dealers who buy from Aucnet terminals can count on a rigorous national inspection system to get an idea of what they're buying. Since the U.S. lacks such a system of unifor ...
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 | Million Dollar Plus Cars
From vintage Ferraris to 1970s muscle cars, in 2006 the rarest classic autos commanded an average of $3.9 million
Does it make sense to pay $2.16 million for a 30-year-old car that gets six miles to the gallon? If you're one of the world's elite car collectors, it does.
That's the amount one collector paid in January for a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda. The demand at auction for classic cars bui ...
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 | Portrait of a Classic Car Buyer
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At the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction, the bidders are mostly white, middle-aged men, and they're overwhelmingly entrepreneurial
As the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction heads into the weekend, the crowds grow in numbers and the cars on offer tend to get more expensive. Ramping up to the coveted prime-time Saturday lot numbers, gone are the occasional sub-$25,000 cars, and i ...
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 | The Urge To Splurge
Barrett-Jackson's classic-car auction gives automotive diehards the chance to buy, sell, and gawk.
Perched on the auction block under the heat of spotlights, camera crews, video monitors, and thousands of spectators, the gleaming 1938 Packard convertible coupe--with its wide-eyed luxury--was an otherworldly if elegant flashback. "See that guy over there in the third row, the redhead with the yel ...
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 | The Used Car Indicator
An example of how badly the rate of inflation is gauged: When the government says car prices are weak, it is doing no more than reporting the effect of its own cheap money.
Used-car prices can't go up. This is a known fact. The supply is too great. Consumers are too knowledgeable. The government says so. But wait: Used-car prices have gone up. At the wholesale level they are up by 5.1% over the ...
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