CLASSICS TODAY

Wednesday

INDIANA ON THE 6TH

1929 CADILLAC

1960 THUNDERBIRD

NOVEMBER CLASSIC

by Kruse

Kruse Auction Park

Auburn, Indiana

http://www.kruse.com/

1-800-968-4444

1951 CHEVY

1939 CADILLAC

GERMANY ON THE 6TH

JAGUAR

BUICK

CLASSIC CAR AUCTION

by Auktion Ladenburg

Automuseum Dr. Carl Benz

Livesheimer Strasse 26

Ladenburg, Germany

http://www.classic-cars-auktion.de/

+49 (0) 6203-957777

BMW 327

ALFA

NOVEMBER, AND WHO HAS WORK FOR 2010...ALMOST NOBODY

2009 World Champion - Jenson Button

No problem with his seat on Brawn GP

So, here it is November and only 1/3 of the possible drivers spots are filled for 2010. In the 50 years that I have been following Formula One I never remember so few spots being confirmed. There is plenty of room because they will need 26 to 28 drivers in total.

Lewis Hamilton

McLaren-Mercedes has confirmed that Lewis Hamilton has a ride for 2010

Sebastian Vettel

Mark Webber

Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel are looking good for Red Bull Racing.

Fernando Alonso

Felipe Massa

Ferrari have finally confirmed what pretty much everyone in F1 expected by now – Fernando Alonso will drive for them in 2010. Felipe Massa will be returning to Ferrari.

Robert Kubica

Renault confirmed on Wednesday that Robert Kubica will race for the team in 2010.

Brunno Senna

The name Senna will be back on the Formula One grid next season when Bruno Senna, nephew of the late three-time champion Ayrton, makes his Grand Prix debut with new team Campos Meta.

Rubens Barrichello

Nico Hulkenberg

Williams will have an all-new race line-up next season, with Rubens Barrichello moving from Brawn GP to partner Williams tester and reigning GP2 champion Nico Hulkenberg.

Sunday

FORMULA ONE IN ABU DHABI

Smiles.....three. On the very fast, very large, brand new track at Abu Dhabi. The winner is Sebastian Vettel, who also cemented his second place in the Championship points, had an eazy time of it. While the real battle was for second place which was finally awarded to Mark Webber. A real tough one for him. Hot on his tail in third was this year's World Champion, Jensen Button.

I will have to put on my thinking cap for next year. Only six drivers have new contracts and most of those six are moving to different teams. Couple that with the possibility of three new teams, lots of rule changes, new President for FIA, 19 races, it should be an interesting 2010.

Thursday

COLLECTOR JOHN O'QUINN.....1941 - 2009

John O'Quinn, who has graced these pages before, lost his life in a car accident this morning. Divorced with no children, O'Quinn's father had taken him to an exhibition of Duesenberg's as a child at the Sam Houston Coliseum, to see what his father called "the greatest car ever built." In 2003, O'Quinn saw a 1932 Duesenberg Durham Tourister for sale at a Houston auction, at which he bought 14 cars that day including the Duesenberg for $405,000.

O'Quinn had an extensive collection of cars, with a total value of over $100 million to buy 618 cars,[3] including: seven Duesenbergs; the 1911 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost featured in the film Titanic; John F Kennedy's 1962 Lincoln Continental Bubble Top limo; a 1937 Bugatti Type 57 Atalante.

In September 2006, he bought: a 2005 Lamborghini Gallardo covered with 33 celebrity autographs ($500,000); the Batmobile used in the filming of Batman Forever ($335,000), a 1941 Packard limousine used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ($290,000), a 1938 Talbot-Lago ($3,350,000); and a 1938 Town Car used by Pope Pius XII ($250,000).

The center piece of the collection is plain grey 1975 Ford Escort GL, once owned by Polish priest Karol Wojtyla - before he became became Pope John Paul II. Bought at the Kruse auction at SEMA, the car was sold by the Pope at auction for charity to Chicago restuaranter Jim Rich in 1995, who paid $102,000 for the car. O'Quinn paid €690,000 for the car October 2005.

In late 2006, O'Quinn found cars missing from his collection, including a Ferrari 575M and a 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang GT350. O'Quinn tried to get in touch with Zev Isgur, a 32-year-old ex-con whom he'd befriended and entrusted with the management of his collection of classic cars. Isgur was later convicted of embezzlement.