1959 PORSCHE 356A D SPEEDSTER
NOVEMBER SALE
by Historics
Mercedes Benz World
Brookland
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1753 639 170
photo credit: © 2014 Historics at Brookland
Saturday
SWITZERLAND ON THE 29TH
1957 BMW 503
CLASSIC CARS AND MOTORCYCLES
by Old Timer Toffen
Old Timer Galerie
Toffen, Switzerland
+41 (0) 31 819 61 61
photo credit: © 2014 Old Timers
COLORADO ON THE 29TH
SUPERIOR COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION WINTER EXTRAVAGANZA
by Dickensheets
Colorado Convention Center
Denver, Colorado
1-303-394-8322
ARIZONA ON THE 28TH
1977 MGB
ARIZONA IN THE FALL
by Silver
Fort McDowell Casino
Fort McDowell, Arizona
1-800-255-4485
photo credit: © 2014 Silver
Thursday
GERMANY ON THE 28TH
1955 VOLKSWAGEN
AUCTION 130
by AuctionATA
ONLINE
Berlin, Germany
1-855-275-2242
photo credit: © 2014 AuctionATA
TEXAS ON THE 28TH
1915 FORD
HOUSTON AUTORAMA
by Dan Kruse
George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas
1-866-495-8111
photo credit: © 2014 Dan Kruse
Wednesday
ENGLAND ON THE 26TH
1954 MERCEDES-BENZ 220
CLASSIC CARS AND MOTORCYCLES
by Brightwells
Easters Court
Leominster, Herefordshire
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1568 611 122
photo credit: © 2014 Brightwells
Sunday
FORMULA ONE IN ABU DHABI
FELIPE MASSA, 2ND - TOTO WOLFF FROM MERCEDES - LEWIS HAMILTON, 1ST - VALTTERI BOTTAS, 3RD
Well, it is all over but the crying. Hamilton and teammate, Nico Rosberg, were almost neck n' neck for the championship. Hamilton not only won the race he won the championship for the season. Hamilton got the jump at the beginning and Rosberg got the bump. His car started having a lot of problems and he just kept falling back. Even though he lost the championship, Rosberg was very gracious in his loss, a true sportsman.
I was very happy to see Massa in second place. To think that last year he was almost out of Formula One, Bottas, his teammate, came in third.
The crowdfunded team came in last place, 16th. The crowdfunded driver, Kobyashi, retired just before the end of the race.
Now comes the game of musical chairs seeing which driver goes to which team and which leave the sport altogether.
Formula One and IndyCar with both be back in March.
photo credit: © 2014 Getty Images
Tuesday
TEXAS ON THE 21ST
1951 CHEVY
DALLAS 2014
by Leake
Dallas Market Hall
Dallas, Texas
1-800-722-9942
photo credit: © 2014 Leake
INDIANA ON THE 21ST
BID ANYWHERE
by Auctions America
Auburn, Indiana
ONLINE AUCTION ONLY
video credit: © 2014 Auctions America
CALIFORNIA ON THE 21ST
1983 PORSCHE 911
AUCTION 57
by McCormick's
Palm Springs Auction Center
Palm Springs, California
1-760-320-3290
photo credit: © 2014 McCormick's
CROWDFUNDING WORKS
KAMUI KOBAYASHI
Do we all know what crowdfunding is? Of course we do. It is where a large body of people fund projects and companies and ideas with their pocket change. At the end of 2012 when Formula One driver, Kamui Kobayashi, looked like he was going to be left without a seat for 2013 he asked his fans to crowdfund his seat with any team that would let him pay. Fast forward to 2014 and Caterham stepped up to the plate. A team that was running at the end of the field most of the time. By the time that the teams got to the last three races there were two teams out of money. Both decided not to finish the season opting out of the last three races.The Marussia team is on the schedule for next year and hopefully they will be sold in the meantime. Caterham took a que from Kobayashi and asked people of interest to crowdfund their trip to the last race in Abu Dhabi. This trip for just the one race would be $ 2.35 million. People must love to crowdfund because they raised the money. In the meantime the other driver, Marcus Ericsson, left Caterham and is going to the Sauber team. Max Chilton from the dead Marussia team will be the other driver alongside Kobayashi. This will give me another team and driver to root for. Kobayashi is a good driver and I would hate to see him go by the wayside. No matter what happens he will always have a race seat....it just might not be in Formula One. Its all about money, Formula One is for the big boys with the very deep pockets.
photo credit: © 2014 Google
Saturday
AUSTRAILA ON THE 17TH
1939 BUICK
SYDNEY LATE SPRING CLASSIC
by Shannons
65 Reserve Road
St. Leonard's, Sydney
+61 (0) 13 46 46
photo credit: © 2014 Shannons
Thursday
ENGLAND ON THE 15TH
1961 ALFA ROMEO
THE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW SALE
by Silverstone
The NEC
Birmingham
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1926 641 141
photo credit: © 2014 Silverstone
OHIO ON THE 15TH
THE BLAUSEY ESTATE
by Baker Bonnigson
612 County Road 64
Helena, Ohio
1-419-547-7777
Wednesday
TEXAS ON THE 14TH
SAM PACK COLLECTION
by RM
13801 Diplomat Drive
Farmer's Branch, Texas
1-519-352-4575
FLORIDA ON THE 14TH
ZEPHYRHILLS AUTOFEST
by Carlisle
Festival Park
Zephyrhills, Florida
1-717-243-7855
CALIFORNIA ON THE 13TH
1962 DEVIN
ANAHEIM 2014
by Mecum
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, California
1-262-275-5050
photo credit: © 2014 Mecum
Sunday
ENGLAND ON THE 12TH
1971 MGB
COLLECTOR'S MOTORCARS & MOTORCYCLES
by Bonhams
Great Yorkshire Showground
Harrogate
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 20 7447 7448
photo credit: © 2014 bonhams 1793
ENGLAND ON THE 12TH
THE PAVILION GARDENS AUCTION
by H & H
The Pavilion Gardens
Buxton, Derbyshire
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1925 210 035
FORMULA ONE IN BRAZIL
NICO ROSBERG
It is a given that Mercedes would come in first and second, but which driver would be which. Hey, its Nico Rosberg in the top slot and Lewis Hamilton in second. In fact, Rosberg made a clean sweep of the weekend coming out on top of all three practices, all three qualifying runs and the race. Doesn't seem like that should be all that hard to do, but it is the first time a driver has done that in about 10 years. In two weeks they will be going into the last race of the season at Abu Dhabi and either driver could be the champion. This year the last race will be for double points which I am not fond of the concept. My vote is for Nico Rosberg.
I am very happy that Felipe Massa came in third in this race. Seventy-five percent of the drivers have a race in their home country, but none as popular Massa. The Brazilian crowd loves him.
Disappointing is that fact that the grid is still two teams short. Marussia is definitely out of the picture and Chaterham is trying to crowdfund the last race. In the last 24 hours they raised 1.5 million dollars. Earlier in the year one of their drivers, Kamui Kobyashi, was crowdfunded to reserve his seat on the team. It is all about money.
Speaking of money, three other teams appear to be having money problems. They are Sauber, Lotus and Force India. All the pot money goes to the big teams and almost none to smaller independents. This is not good because without the independents there would be no race. I would hate to see anyone of these teams go. Especially Sauber, which has been around since the 70's and Peter Sauber still owns 66% of the team. Formula One claims this contract goes until 2020 and their answer is to add a third car to the big teams to make of the numbers on the grid. As much as I like Formula One I am not that much interested in seeing a half a dozen teams race each other. Independents should be given a chance.
photo credit: © 2014 gpupdate.net
Friday
NEBRASKA ON THE 9TH
AIR-COOLED VOLKSWAGENS
by Bargholz
149 North Main Street
Pilger, Nebraska
1-402-375-3258
FRANCE ON THE 9TH
DE LYON COLLECTION OF CARS
by Osenat
Eurexpo Lyon-Chassieu
Chassieu
France
+33 (0) 1 64 22 27 62
ENGLAND ON THE 8TH
1984 PANTHER
MOTORING AUCTION
by Hanson's
Heage Lane
Etwall, Derbyshire
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1283 733 988
photo credit: © 2014 Hanson's
TEXAS ON THE 8TH
1969 CAMARO SS
GENERAL CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
by Elco
700 Voss
Odem, Texas
1-361-726-6243
photo credit: © 2014 Elco
CALIFORNIA ON THE 8TH
1955 CHEVY
COLLECTOR AUCTION
by Central Valley
3548 Avenue 400
Kingsburg, California
1-559-367-6673
photo credit: © 2014 Central Valley Estates
KENTUCKY ON THE 8TH
1934 FORD
CLASSIC CAR AUCTION
by Smith's
Expo Center
Paducah, Kentucky
1-800-200-6030
photo credit: © 2014 Smith's Auction Company
SCOTLAND ON THE 8TH
1966 JAGUAR MK II
CLASSIC CAR AUCTION
by Morris Leslie
Errol Airfield
Errol, Perth
Scotland
+44 (0) 1821 642 527
photo credit: © 2014 Morris Leslie
Wednesday
IOWA ON THE 7TH
1956 FARMALL
DAVENPORT
featuring The Allis Chalmers Collection
International Wheatland Collection
A.J. Spiegel Collection
John Deere LPG Collection
Richard Nelson Collection
Virgil Richardson Collection
by Mecum
Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds
Davenport, Iowa
1-262-275-5050
photo credit: © 2014 Mecum
NORTH CAROLINA ON THE 6TH
1956 THUNDERBIRD
CLASSIC CARS
by GAA
301 Norwalk Street
Greensboro, North Carolina
1-855-862-2257
photo credit: © 2014 GAA
Monday
ENGLAND ON THE 4TH
1984 BEDFORD
THE RICHARD PAYNE ESTATE
by Cheffins
Anso Corner Farm
Hempstead, Saffron Walden, Essex
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1223 213 777
photo credit: © 2014 Cheffins
FORMULA ONE IN THE UNITED STATES
WINNER LEWIS HAMILTON WITH 1978 WORLD CHAMP MARIO ANDRETTI
Lewis Hamilton was able to scoot past his teammate to go on and win today's event. Hamilton is looking more like he will be this year's champion, but you never know. Only two races left for the season and he and teammate, Nico Rosberg, are still fairly close in the standings. Rosberg, who started on the pole, ended up in second place. Daniel Ricciardo, brought home another third.
The start today was missing two teams due to money problems. They will not race the rest of the season and will not be around next year. I am sure that the U.S. promoters were less than happy at this chain of events. It will be interesting to see if Formula One survives because there are other teams teetering on the brink of disaster.
It is always just about money....
By the way, Mario Andretti looks fabulous for his 74 years.
photo credit: © 2014 Getty Images / BBC
Saturday
CANADA ON THE 2ND
TORONTO FALL CLASSICS
by Collector Car Productions
International Centre
6900 Airport Road
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada
1-416-923-7500
photo credit: © 2014 Collector Car Productions
photo credit: © 2014 Collector Car Productions
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