BLOCK PARTY
From Sean Connery’s own DB5 to an alloy Mercedes Gullwing, once again Monterey Car Week will be a tractor beam to auction addicts
With half a dozen high-end auctions scheduled and something in the region of 2000 lots crossing the block there should be no shortage of bidding opportunities during Monterey Car Week.
Of the ‘traditional’ houses, Gooding & Company will reprise the role of official auctioneer that it has held since 2005, staging its sale across both days of the concours weekend; Bonhams will be at its regular Quail Lodge venue, and RM Sotheby’s at the Monterey Conference Centre.
Those in search of a little extra pizzazz, meanwhile, might want to seek out what are typically the more flamboyant performances given by the gavel swingers at Mecum and Russo and Steele.
The most closely scrutinised event of all, however, is likely to the debut sale by Broad Arrow Auctions, part of the Broad Arrow Group set up by a team of former RM Sotheby’s executives at the end of last year.