The Paddle Economy 2015: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part II

Paying Attention:    It’s that time of the year again: Pebble Beach Concours Week. To the automobile enthusiast, this is the best week of the year (or at least one of the best) and for collector’s the world over, it’s the week in which pricing trends and new highs are set for the collectibles that go …

The Paddle Economy: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part 1

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 …

The Paddle Economy: A Pebble Shopping List, Part II

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 …

The Paddle Economy: 2012 Prices Realized

Last year, in this very same space, we presented an overview of some of the most interesting cars to be offered at the annual Pebble Beach auctions conducted by all the major automobile auction houses during the week long celebration of automobiles and automobilia that rans parallel to the justifiably famous Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance. …