From Carmel to Chantilly in under ten days! Last week I was in Carmel for the Pebble Beach car show and now Sarah and I are in Chantilly France for yet more car gazing. We are graciously being hosted by Sports Car Market publisher Keith Martin. We arrived yesterday and met up with Keith at the Paris […]
A 1988 BMW E24 M6 sold for a whopping $90,000 at Mecum’s Monterey auction last week. The all-in hammer price with the buyer’s premium was $99,000. The car was finished in highly desirable Cinnabar Red with Natur interior. Having travelled a mere 25,000 miles it was an “A” example in excellent original condition. The only incorrect item […]
Is this the sign of a top of the market or just another step higher? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach Auctions Achieves Highest One-Day Sale With More Than $76 Million The Auction House Celebrates Highest Single-Day Sale and Most Expensive Lot in Company History – 13 Cars Sold Above the $1 Million […]
We got up around 7 am and headed over to the 18th hole. For the first time in days Keith did not have to MC anything or orchestrate seminars or oversee some grand concours event. We fired up the loaner Chevy Volt and silently headed over to the show under full battery power. We hit […]
It was wheels up early today as Keith moderated the 15th Annual Monterey Insider’s Seminar. Held at the Gooding auction site, the panelists included Miles Collier, Mark Hyman, Keith Martin, Donald Osborne and Steve Serio. Topics covered included the following: Is $100,000 for a BMW tii way too much or just an early buy? How can a […]
On any given day, life in Monterey, Pebble Beach, and Carmel is pure fantasyland. During Monterey Car Week these tony enclaves become the ultimate land of make believe. While driving into Carmel don’t be surprised to see a Porsche 959 waiting to make a right turn at a light. A vintage Maserati Ghibli might be parked […]
I am 36,000 feet over Lincoln Nebraska publishing this post via FlyFi. The abundance of technological innovation in our world is astounding. What is routine today was unfathomable one hundred years ago. Even just ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter, iPhones or iPads. If you told somebody in 1916 that you could sit […]
Turtle Garage recently spent an evening at the New York Auto Show. The renovation to the venerable Javits Center has substantially upgraded the convention center venue. This year, the actual cars were a side show when compared to the elaborate displays of the car manufacturers. BMW had a private eating deck. Mazda had giant curved high-definition jumbo-trons. Other […]
On Sunday I attended two car shows on the same day in two non-contiguous states. In the morning I fired up my old 911 and headed over to Caffeine and Carburetors at Waveny Park in New Canaan, Connecticut. Designed by William Tubby in 1913, Waveny and its 300 surrounding acres provided the perfect backdrop for a […]
On Friday I made my annual pilgrimage to Hershey Pennsylvania for what I fondly call the “Burning Man” of car shows. The annual AACA fall meet in Hershey has been held since the Early Cretaceous Period (in the collector car timeline that means 1955). For car enthusiasts, Hershey is Mecca. Each October thousands of automobile […]
Last week I had Laurie Duncan (a fabulous computer consultant) come to my office and update my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. These devices now all talk to each other and share data seamlessly over the cloud. She changed my life for the better. Her services put the Apple Genius Bar to shame. She comes to your home or […]
Philip Richter is President and co-founder of New-York-City-based Hollow Brook Wealth Management, LLC. The Turtle Garage Blog, he says, is dedicated to his "love of excessive personal transportation."
