Well, the last of the summer car auctions just ended and set many new records. At the top of the heap was a 1962 Ferrari 250GTO that fetched a whapping $48,405,000 at RM Sotheby’s, helping RM reach total sales of $157,931,940, a 19% sales increase vs. 2017.

Not to be outdone, the people at Gooding & Co., sold the second highest priced car, a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ that once belonged to actor Gary Cooper and was part of the Briggs Cunningham collection for almost 40 years, for $22 million, setting a record for an American car at auction.

Mecum had a total of 690 cars for sale and sold 360 of them for a total of $44.7 million. Their top dollar car was a 1933 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe Disappearing Top Roadster that sold for $3,850,000.

Preliminary sales numbers, when you add all the auctions up, show that 1376 cars crossed the block, with

Touring-Bodied Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Named Best of Show
at the 68th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
2018 Charitable Donations Top $1.8 Million

Contact: Kandace Hawkinson
(831) 622-1700; media@pebblebeachconcours.net

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (August 26, 2018) — After an intense competition that drew diverse cars from around the globe, the coveted gold Best of Show ribbon was placed on the deep blue bodywork of a 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It was a match meant to be.

“As a Zagato collector, I broke the rules and bought a Touring-bodied car because this Alfa Romeo is very special,” said longtime entrant David Sydorick of Beverly Hills, California. “It is a piece of automotive architecture mounted on a Grand Prix chassis that has technology that was top of

COMPLETE LIST OF 2018 WINNERS

Best of Show
1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta
David & Ginny Sydorick, Beverly Hills, California

Best of Show Nominees
1929 Duesenberg J Murphy Town Limousine
Lehrman Collection, Palm Beach, Florida

1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Figoni Fastback Coupé
Robert Kudela, Chropyně, Czech Republic

Elegance Awards

Gwenn Graham Most Elegant Convertible
1937 Cadillac Series 90 Hartmann Cabriolet
Jim Patterson/The Patterson Collection, Louisville, Kentucky

J. B. & Dorothy Nethercutt Most Elegant Closed Car
1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta
David & Ginny Sydorick, Beverly Hills, California

Jules Heumann Most Elegant Open Car
1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Brewster York Roadster
John & Heather Mozart, Palo Alto, California

Strother MacMinn Most Elegant Sports Car
1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo Pininfarina Coupe
MJJV Cars, Rye, New York

Special Awards

Alec Ulmann Trophy
1926 Hispano-Suiza H6B Rollston Convertible Victoria

1967 L79 Corvette Convertible Rally Red w/Red interior, L79 327/350hp, 4-spd. manual transmission.

If asked to find the best all-around mid-year driver that offered dependability, performance, and fun. You would be hard pressed to find a more fitting candidate than the ’67 L79 327 Convertible.

Only two small blocks were offered in 1967: the base 327/300hp and the (soon to be legendary) high performance L79, which offered 350hp.  Because of the L79’s special camshaft, it was only available with a 4-speed manual transmission.

This engine had been introduced in 1965 and in addition to the camshaft, gave you bigger heads with 2.02 [...]