Bradley and I had two road trips in a week. First, we drove to Astoria, on the Oregon Coast. We took the 1991 Alfa Spider and he drove about 100 miles. This being springtime in Oregon, we drove through a hailstorm. The combination of the scenic, winding Highway 26 and […]
On this week’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Katelyn Conlon, Chief Revenue Officer of Luxury Asset Capital is our guest. She and Host Darin Roberge talk the company’s origin, their mission and the advantages of leveraging stored and/or unused collectibles and luxury assets. WATCH ON YOUTUBE OR LISTEN ON ALL MAJOR […]
Last week I asked for your help in paring down my collection from 11 to 3 cars. While I am not planning on selling anything in the near future, 11 cars means 11 batteries to keep charged, 11 cars to run to the ethanol-free gas station, and 11 cars to […]
It’s getting to be time to prune the collection. At the moment, we have 11 cars in the SCM fleet, including my daily driver Hyundai Elantra. Eight are on the button, and three are in the midst of mild mechanical refurbishments. For sheer ease of management — and perhaps to […]
On this week’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Insurance Guru, Columnist and Concours Judge Andy Reid joins us to discuss his approach to judging, the future of the Concours scene and we take a deep dive into everything collector vehicle insurance related. WATCH ON YOUTUBE OR LISTEN ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST […]
Starting when I was three years old, my grandfather would perch me on the nose of his Ford 9N tractor. It was a ritual we repeated every Saturday morning at our family’s small farm in Novato, California (about 28 miles north of our home in San Francisco). My engagement with […]
This week on Sports Car Market’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Keith Koscak from LBI Limited joins us to talk LBI’s diverse and interesting inventory, their experience with Supercar and JDM markets and their incredible knack for uncovering rare and exclusive barn finds. WATCH ON YOUTUBE OR LISTEN ON ALL MAJOR […]
A few months ago, my son Bradley turned 15. He passed the written test and then I signed him up for lessons for street driving from a professional. In the teacher’s Honda CR-V, he had several sessions navigating local streets, and a couple of stints on freeways. Now it was […]
This week, Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight focuses on Cobra Experience Managing Director Emily Lambert. Emily and host Darin Roberge discuss the Cobra Experience’s inception, the incredible array of significant vehicles, Shelby production items and memorabilia on display, their restoration program and how you can put a piece of the Cobra […]
What do you think the ideal cutoff date for a vintage tour should be? Or should there be one at all? The cutoff for the SCM 1000 is 1974. We chose that year as stringent smog and safety regulations began to take effect on US cars in 1975, altering the […]
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