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Press Clippings: New York magazine continues to deliver the goods when it comes to timely, incisive and important journalism. A recent issue contained an extensive and very well researched piece on an undercurrent of foreign money that’s flooding into New York real estate–some of it legal and some of it questionable–and in the process driving up …
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“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile….”
Paying Attention(updated with sold pricing): We tend to focus on the auction houses that concentrate on European (and American) sports cars in this annual survey. There are certainly some blockbuster collectibles crossing the block at Pebble Beach this year, and RM Auctions, which treats this sale like the Super Bowl of collector car auctions, has some …
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“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend four hours sharpening the axe…”
Paying Attention (updated with final sales prices). Part 1 of our annual survey of the best and most interesting of the Pebble Beach auctions covers the Bonham’s auction conducted at The Quail automobile gathering at Pebble Beach. The Bonham’s auctions are always special because their auction team not only assembles a terrific group of automobiles for …
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Paying Attention (updated with final sales prices): Each year, we take some time to review the cars that are offered on auction at Pebble Beach. There are other big collector/classic car auctions in the world, but over the last decade, Pebble Beach has emerged as THE auction, the one where record prices are set and …
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“I’m up in the spotlight Ohh, does it feel right? Ohh, the altitude Really gets to get to me… I’m up on the tight wire Flanked by life and the funeral pyre Putting on a show For you to see..” –Tightrope, as performed by Leon Russell, Written by Stan Kenton. Transitions. We lost Robin in …
“Courage is being scared but saddling up anyway…”
Google’s review of the year in search, 2014.
We define a year by what happens, what stands out, and what we remember. At the end of every year, there is a massive, multi-media attempt to catalog the events, news, and entertainment of the year through lists:” the best of…”, “the most of..”, ” the biggest..”, etc. It’s a form of information shorthand–all you need to …