Category Archives: The Octane Lounge

HP – The Octane Lounge – Oct 7, 2013

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These really are the good old days, all over again.
While car collectors and old-timers will ramble on and on about Hemicudas, Ram Air IV GTOs and W-30 Oldsmobile 442s, in truth what you can buy straight off the new-car showroom floor will easily dust even the best muscle cars from the late 1960s and early ’70s.

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Cashing in – The Octane Lounge – Sept 30, 2013

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By their very nature, automobile auctions are dramatic and exciting, filled with well-heeled men and women bidding on exotic cars at fabulous locations.

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$3,200,000 – Sept 23, 2013

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One way or another, all Corvettes are special, but some are just a little bit more special than others. And certainly the best of the best can be said to be remarkable, especially when they come with a story like Buddy Herin’s.

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Porsche 918 Spyder – The Octane Lounge – Sept 16, 2013

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Porsche has at long last officially taken the wraps off of its much-ballyhooed 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid super sports car, unveiling it at the recent Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany just as it kicked off production on Sept. 12.

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Desert Stars – The Octane Lounge – Sept 9, 2013

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The rich really are different than the rest of us. Umed Singh II, Maharaja of Kotah from 1889 until his death in 1940, commissioned this Rolls-Royce Phantom to be used as his tiger-hunting car on his huge private estate.

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The shape of things to come – The Octane Lounge – Sept 2, 2013

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With new-car season upon us, automakers around the world already are looking well beyond the 2014 model year and casting an eye on the future. Germany’s hugely influential Frankfurt Auto Show, which runs from Sept. 10-22, features an interesting selection of concept cars from across the globe.

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California class of 2013 – The Octane Lounge – August 26, 2013

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The final numbers are in from August’s Monterey, Calif., collector-car auctions and, as expected, they were nothing short of breathtaking. When the dust settled from the five auctions conducted in conjunction with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, total sales hit a whopping $301.9 million.
That’s an increase of 17 percent from 2012 and a staggering 52 percent increase from just two years ago. Clearly, whatever economic pressures may impact the middle-class, they aren’t being felt at the upper end of the economic spectrum.

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Red Ink – The Octane Lounge – Aug 19, 2013

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There’s a dirty little secret to spending the middle of August in Monterey, Calif., for the five collector-car auctions as well as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion: there is a staggering amount of money all around.

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Rad Ride – The Octane Lounge – Aug 12, 2013

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The marriage of the traditional Hot August Nights car show in the Reno-Tahoe Nev., area, and one of the many Barrett-Jackson Collector-Car Auctions, turned out to be a huge home run for all involved.

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Beach Day – The Octane Lounge – Aug 5, 2013

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Back in the late 1970s, when beat-happy disco and insipid studio rock ruled the FM radio waves, the legendary English punk-rock stalwarts The Clash labeled themselves “The Only Band That Matters.” It would have been a wildly pretentious moniker save for one small matter: it was completely true.

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