Any show or club meeting is just an excuse for like-minded people to come together. You might bump into me at the next meeting of the Portland Aquarium society looking for some long-finned zebra danios. Or at the Oregon Reptile Show where I got our last three crested geckos. If […]
The Oregon Festival of Cars is coming up next weekend. The brainchild of SCM’s Legal Files contributor John Draneas, it’s a relaxed way to spend a weekend in Bend, OR, looking at old cars and chatting with friends. It also marks the unofficial end of “car season” in our area. […]
This week on Sports Car Market Magazine’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Ferrari expert and dealer Colleen Sheehan of Ferraris Online joins us to discuss her fascinating introduction to the classic car business, her first run across the stage at Pebble Beach, their interesting range of current offerings and what it’s […]
This year we made the decision to drive to Monterey from Portland, about 750 miles each way. In previous decades, we had flown to San Jose, CA, picked up a rental car and driven to the peninsula, repeating the process for the trip home. Door to door, it would take […]
On this week’s episode of Sports Car Market Magazine’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, we sit down with Hyman Ltd. President Mark Hyman. He and host Darin Roberge talk his incredible history of vehicles bought and sold, what continues to catch his eye, we go through his diverse and eclectic inventory […]
My son Bradley’s 1982 Chevrolet Corvette continues to create its own adventures. He spent a weekend at Sauer’s Machine and Racing, a shop in Medford, OR. His grandfather, Dick Ewing, who dragged-raced a C1 Corvette and was known for his ability to work wizardry with nitrous injection, works as a […]
On this week’s episode of Sports Car Market’s Buy, Sell, Hold: Spotlight, Tim Quocksister od Silver Arrow Cars joins us to discuss his company’s origins, doing business across borders, Bring-a-Trailer tips and the in’s and out’s of buying and selling his favorite model: the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL WATCH ON YOUTUBE […]
It’s been 30 years since SCM made our first 2,000-mile roundtrip from Portland to Monterey Car Week. For many years, we drove a van with boxes of magazines strapped to the roof. More recently we have shipped our materials ahead and flown down. However, my son Bradley turned 16 this […]
For the first time in four years, I’ll be in Monterey. I’m going to keep an abbreviated schedule this year, arriving on Wednesday in time for our annual SCM contributor’s meet-up, and departing Saturday morning. I’ll be bringing my son Bradley with me, and he is all agog about seeing […]
My son Bradley and I have just finished another classic car tour weekend. We were participating in the Northwest Classic Car Challenge, hosted by the Alfa Romeo Owners of Oregon. Restoration shop Vintage Underground were the primary sponsors. There were a nice mix of classic and modern cars in this […]
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