The collector car marketplace has changed dramatically since our last Symposium in 2019. Leading voices from the auction and online marketplace world examine what is selling, who is buying, how transactions are changing, and what these shifts may mean for collectors and the automobiles we value.
This session will feature Revs' ARC Director Arthur Carlson sharing features about the ARC, the treasures it contains, along with how our dedicated team of archivists, researchers, curators, and technicians preserve that for future generations. Attendees will learn about our work with not only other automotive heritage organizations but a diverse set of academic partners to provide world-class research and learning experiences in our effort to become the most useful resources to the historic and meaningful car community.
After examining global luxury trends and the changing collector car marketplace, we turn to the larger question: Has the Golden Age of automobile collecting come and gone, or is it simply changing? Leading collectors and industry voices consider shifting tastes, values, demographics, and definitions of significance, and what they may tell us about the next era of collecting.
In 1972, Ferrari produced one of the most dominant seasons in sports-car racing history, winning 10 of 11 rounds of the International Championship for Makes. Mario Andretti, Peter Schetty, Brian Redman, and Doug Nye revisit the extraordinary cars, drivers, personalities, and decisions behind a season in which Ferrari seemed almost unbeatable—and consider what made the 312 PB era so exceptional.
The knowledge required to operate, maintain, repair, and restore historic automobiles is disappearing along with the generations who mastered it. Revs experts examine the skills most at risk, what is being done to document and transmit that knowledge, and the role collectors and institutions can play in ensuring these automobiles remain not merely preserved, but understood and operable.
Every collection eventually faces a moment of transition. As collectors age, families change, and the interests of the next generation evolve, what becomes of the automobiles and the knowledge, stories, and meaning attached to them? Collectors from multiple generations discuss succession, stewardship, dispersal, and the deeply personal decisions involved in letting go and passing on.
