This is Part II of the Melbourne Car Spotters Monterey Car Week Full Recap: Auction and Event Coverage, and Our Favourite Snaps. We'd highly recommend reading Part I: New Car Reveals here, so you're in the know about what's on the horizon in the car world.
Our Favourite Event & Auction Highlights
What would a 'car week' be without ludicrous auctions, events, and spotting? Have a look below at our favourite event, a selection of notable auction results, and the pick of the crop from Instagram.
Rare Shades by @PTSRS & @000Magazine
Although somewhat niche, we couldn't resist leaving out our favourite event of the week: Rare Shades. Organised by one of our favourite Instagram pages, @ptsrs, Rare Shades was a gathering of Porsches, but not in the traditional sense. All had one thing in common: Paint To Sample (PTS) bodywork, making for a spectacular array of blues, greens, pinks, reds, blacks, and the rest, all arranged by shade and by model year. With quite a cult following, PTS enthusiasm is a whole 'nother level of car nerdiness; cult participants nitpicking over subtle differences in metallic fleck when determining whether a car is Sapphire Blue or Aqua Blue. If you didn't know, the PTS progam enables new Porsche owners to spec their cars with an array of rarer colours, based on historical or otherwise uncommon colours. Unfortunately, we in Australia don't have a large representation of PTS; Aussies opting for safer black, silver, and white for the most part. It is spectacular to see a niche community come together and organise a unique and interesting event - check out the album of the event below, as well as @PTSRS on Instagram.
Auction Highlights
If you were an avid car collector with a few million to spend, you could burn through your budget very quickly at Monterey. Six main auctions all occur during the week, including the RM Sothebys, the Official Pebble Beach, and Bonhams as the most significant. Just looking at the catalogues, you have to wonder whether you've just opened a 'Dream Car Calendar', or a list of cars featured in the latest Forza or Project Cars videogames. $368m USD of car was sold at all six main auctions, with three cars selling for $20m+ each. The list of notable cars is far too long to mention here (it could be filled with multi-million dollar Ferraris alone), so check out our personal favourite highlights below, as well as the RM Sotheby's catalogues for some bedtime reading (here:http://media.rmsothebys.com/digitalcatalogs/2018/MO18/index.html)
Our Favourite Photos From the Wider Insta-Verse
With such an incredible ability to drag cars of all sorts out of the woodwork, Instagram was bursting with quality content and spots from Monterey. We've put below our favourite photos of the week, from the many talented photographers from across the world (including Melbourne's own @tommyfraser, @ns_images, @jbbimages, and @lankester.cars). Let us know in the comments what your favourite car of the week was!
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