{"id":493486,"date":"2013-11-01T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=14782"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:58:50","slug":"quality-over-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/quality-over-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Over Quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may recall that back in April I wrote on these pages about the unprecedented pace that the collector car hobby had gotten off to this year, at what has historically been the largest collector car sale in the world, Scottsdale. This past January, in the arid Arizona desert, five auction houses worked separately for seven days to sell 2,234 collector vehicles for a mind-boggling $229 million.<\/p>\n

However, apparently this was only the warm-up act, because during this year\u2019s Monterey Classic Car Week, five auction companies, held just four days of sales and yet recorded an unprecedented $301.9 million in sales\u2026and this from only 726 sold vehicles\u2026and at a venue where auctions aren\u2019t even the main focus! For those keeping track at home, when added together with the many European sales on this year\u2019s calendar, the collector car auction world will easily surpass $1 billion in total sales this year\u2026that\u2019s billion with a \u201cB.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n