As a volunteer activist and lobbyist in South Dakota in the early 1990s, William Napoli went door-to-door to collect signatures to establish term limits for elected officials.
A 1961 Ferrari California Spyder sold for $10,894,900 at an auction in Maranello, Italy, Saturday. It was the highest price ever paid for a vintage car at auction, according to RM Auctions and Sotheby's, the companies that organized the sale.
A Ferrari sports car, once owned and raced by the actor Steve McQueen, sold for $2.3 million, twice its originally estimated auction value, at a Christie's auction in Monterey, California.
From your own slice of paradise to your own thoroughbred, this month on Art of Life we explore the best way to invest your money. Whether it is cars, racehorses or your own private island, we tell you how to channel your money into less traditional investments.
If the bids are real - and the eBayMotors.com auction was stopped once for fake bidding - a modified 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like the General Lee from the TV Show "The Dukes of Hazzard," nearly became the most expensive car ever auctioned.
A modified 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like the General Lee from the TV Show "The Dukes of Hazzard," is for sale on eBayMotors. So far, the bidding is up to more than $2.7 million.
As a volunteer activist and lobbyist in South Dakota in the early 1990s, William Napoli went door-to-door to collect signatures to establish term limits for elected officials.
A 1961 Ferrari California Spyder sold for $10,894,900 at an auction in Maranello, Italy, Saturday. It was the highest price ever paid for a vintage car at auction, according to RM Auctions and Sotheby's, the companies that organized the sale.
A Ferrari sports car, once owned and raced by the actor Steve McQueen, sold for $2.3 million, twice its originally estimated auction value, at a Christie's auction in Monterey, California.
From your own slice of paradise to your own thoroughbred, this month on Art of Life we explore the best way to invest your money. Whether it is cars, racehorses or your own private island, we tell you how to channel your money into less traditional investments.
If the bids are real - and the eBayMotors.com auction was stopped once for fake bidding - a modified 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like the General Lee from the TV Show "The Dukes of Hazzard," nearly became the most expensive car ever auctioned.
A modified 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like the General Lee from the TV Show "The Dukes of Hazzard," is for sale on eBayMotors. So far, the bidding is up to more than $2.7 million.
A 1971 Plymouth muscle car sold at a Phoenix, Ariz. auction Friday for $2.2 million. With a 10 percent sales commission, the total price for the car will be about $2.5 million.
A rare 1939 German race car commissioned by Adolf Hitler is expected to command the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction, according to Christie's, which will conduct the auction in Paris in February 2007.
An ultrarare 1931 Daimler car was awarded "Best of Show" at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the top competition for high-priced collectible cars, on Sunday.
Winning "Best of Show" at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance car show, taking place this weekend in California, can add 50 percent or more to the value of a collectible car, one that's already worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.
(FORTUNE Small Business Magazine) - Nobody buys a Jaguar for transportation. Jags are all about glamour, style, and romance. Owners traditionally have put up with eccentricity and even inconvenience, as long as the car exuded Jaguar's aristocratic roadster personality.
Last year's $3.24 million sale of a 1954 Oldsmobile concept car at a Scottsdale, Ariz. auto auction definitely got the attention of automobile collectors.
If you just love the idea of owning a 1970 Plymouth Superbird but you have trouble with the $100,000 price tag, some auto financing companies offer a different approach: leasing.
The daily high in Scottsdale, Ariz. this time of year is about 68 degrees. That might be reason enough to book flights there, given the weather in much of the nation right now.
America's ties to the open road, always a major part of our culture, are particularly strong these days. Thanks to the sluggish economy and lingering concerns about terrorism, more people are vacat...
Tom Monaghan sums up his life as a "great Horatio Alger story," and he's not being boastful. Monaghan's father died on Christmas Eve when he was 4. His mother, not up to single parenthood, sent him...
Ken Walker's passion for vintage car racing has its roots in a 1950s teen-flick rite of passage. As a 16-year-old New Yorker spending the summer in California, Walker discovered the allure of Satur...
Perched on the auction block under the heat of spotlights, camera crews, video monitors, and thousands of spectators, the gleaming 1938 Packard convertible coupe--with its wide-eyed luxury--was an ...
Steering his immaculate '32 Ford across the manicured 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach golf course, Bruce Meyer gooses the throttle and releases a roar that says: "We're not to be ignored." Rumblin...
It looked like a flashback to the '50s as the pack of 24 classic beauties shot down the straightaway for the first of 10 noisy laps. At the wheel of his restored '57 Porsche, Don Sandy began duelin...
It's an investment, you tell yourself as you plop down $14,000 for a 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Not so, says S. Prestley Blake, the retired chairman of Friendly Ice Cream, who owns more than a ...
LEERY of collectibles? Caution makes sense when considering them, but a couple of factors have lately made them more alluring. When the bottom dropped out of the bull market last year, shell-shocke...
When the high-finned '50s Cadillac convertibles started spinning on the auction turntable in Las Vegas this spring, Robie Wayne's head spun too. Wayne, 40, a Cadillac aficionado from Minneapolis, h...
THE BEEFY REDHEAD was down on his knees examining a mechanical filing system in a big Wall Street investment house. He had grease on one sleeve -- transporting and installing files is rough work. A...
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