“Will you sell me your Duetto?” It was really a two-part question. It started with, “I’m looking to buy my first Italian sports car,” and ended with, “and I wondered if you would sell me your Duetto?” There was more, of course. My friend has always owned Porsches, and recently […]
The Alfa Romeo Club of Oregon (AROO) held its annual Valentine’s Day Tour last week. For my 16-year-old son Bradley, it was his first time driving a manual-shift classic sports car on a tour. My driver-training philosophy has been to have him become competent driving automatics in a variety of […]
I have an upcoming event that requires a ring. So when a catalog arrived from a local fine-arts and antiques auction house — an analog version of a “notify me” email from an online collector-car auction — a 5.53-carat stone caught my eye. O’Gallerie, a family-run Portland institution, was founded in […]
I’m writing this as we prepare for the Alfa Romeo Owners of Oregon (AROO) annual Valentine’s Day tour. There are three Alfa Spiders in the SCM garage. Our plans are to take the 1991 S4 and the 1967 Duetto. Although my son Bradley has been driving his mother’s manual Porsche […]
Our 2006 Lotus Elise needs new tires. We’ve covered some of this ground before, but here it is two-and-a-half years later and we have yet to deal with the issue. The SCM Elise now has about 22,000 miles showing. It has been driven less than 1,000 miles since I suffered […]
It’s the eternal recurring question for gearheads. How many cars to you really need? Usually, the answer is determined by how many parking spaces you have. But for the moment let’s assume you have unlimited space. I have found that when you get beyond five or six cars, you are […]
TDV: Hi Keith, thanks for speaking with us at The Daily Vroom. What inspired you to create Sports Car Market, and how has it influenced the classic car market over the years? KM: My role model was the Ferrari Market Letter, founded by Gerald Roush. It was well-written, and he […]
In 1964, Alfa Romeo and Porsche were roughly on par with their mass-production cars. The 356C and the Giulia Spider Veloce had similar performance. But by 1970 the two companies were worlds apart and have continued to diverge. Two things happened. First, in 1965 Porsche introduced the 6-cylinder 911. It […]
I’ve been writing about off-road Porsches since 2003. That’s when my review of the new Cayenne models appeared in The New York Times. My first reaction to an SUV from Stuttgart was that it was like watching someone hiking the Yosemite Falls Trail in an Armani suit and Gucci loafers. […]
I’ve been watching a variety of online chats about selling strategies for online auctions. They revolve around whether it is better to list a car with a reserve (a minimum price that must be met or the car doesn’t sell) or no reserve (the highest bid takes the car, no […]
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