CALLING ALL CARS AND CAR SHOWS…… 2011 Maine Car Show Calendar in the works

February 22, 2011

We’re starting to put together our calendar for the 2011 Car Show and Cruise season and just want to remind anyone and everyone to send in your listings for any type of car-related event to us at info@portlandmotorclub.com. We’d like to think that we have the most comprehensive listings in the state but if we don’t know about it, we can’t let others know! So get ’em in here and we’ll get ’em out there! Looking forward to another great car events season.

We’re hoping to have one new car event this season (in addition to our 2011 Labor Day Toys-for-Tots Car Show/Cruise and perhaps a 2011 Fall Exotics Gathering) — an event organized by the Portland Police Activities League (formerly “Athletic” League) — a Youth-Oriented Car Show & More especially designed for teens and other young people. We expect to have some sort of People’s Choice Car Show, some cool late model cars, some old and new police cars, some special educational and safety activities (a texting-and-driving danger demo, mechanical and detailing demos and contests), prizes, raffles, music and more! The crew from Portland Detailing (http://www.PortlandDetailing.com) will also be on hand to teach some detailing and cleaning tips.

This is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June 25. The success of this will depend on getting the word out to young car enthusiasts — kids who are interested in classic and the latest hot cars, mechanical skills, car care, public safety, and more. Something special to do with the right young person — your child, your grandchild or a friend of the family. We are also looking for volunteers to help out with this event. If you are particularly interested in cars and young people showing an interest in them, please be in touch with Portland Motor Club via our website (http://www.PortlandMotorClub.com) or by phone (207-775-1770).

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MAINE CAR SHOW & CRUISE-IN LISTINGS UPDATED for 2010!!!

April 12, 2010

What an amazing car season we can look forward to in 2010! Thanks to our friends at CruiseMaine magazine and cruisemaine.net sharing their listings and adding some of our own, we have (hopefully) the state’s most comprehensive listing of Maine Car Shows & Cruise-Ins throughout the state. Kind of like that joke about Maine weather — if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute… if you don’t see a car show or cruise-in you like, wait a minute or a day, anyway. There’s something going on every day of every week this summer for cars and their owners. So, get out there and show it off and have some fun. It’s almost too bad that there aren’t any this April because it’s been so beautiful — hopefully a good sign for the summer season.

Here’s the link to the Cruise-in schedule which is also on the website under CALENDAR & EVENTS on the sidebar: 2010 CRUISE-IN LIST

And here’s the link to the Car Show 2010 Season in Maine or go to the CALENDAR & EVENTS button on the sidebar on the Portland Motor Club website: 2010 CAR SHOW LIST

And, by the way, we will be hosting the Labor Day Toys-for-Tots Cruise-In at Portland Motor Club again this year on Monday, September 6 — hard to imagine topping last year’s event but we’re game! We expect we’ll see and hear from our friends at the Monday Night Posse again this year — there’s actually music footage from last year’s show online on their website www.MondayNightPosse.com.

If you have any additions or corrections, please be in touch right at at <info@portlandmotorclub.com> or call us at 207-775-1770. We want this list to be absolutely accurate and could really use your help if you know that something’s not right on it — and thanks!

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Crikey! Tornadoes Wallop Scottsdale, Arizona during Auction week

January 22, 2010

While getting my daily dose of professional car storage and classic car auction news from the Google machine, I came across these shockers — what horrible timing! Of course, good to keep this in perspective with the true horror of the earthquake disaster in Haiti, but within the car collector universe, this is certainly bad news for the likes of Russo and Steele and Barrett-Jackson and their many buyers and sellers. I do hope the car enthusiast community can think of some ways to make a difference by combining their special passion with a desire to help those in critical need in Haiti. It’s great to see how many folks are finding unique ways of doing something to help. My ten-year-old son’s Cub Scout troop is holding a yard sale next week to raise money (indoors, of course, it is Maine in winter, after all — supposed to below zero tonight).

from the folks at About. com (and see the next one from AZ Central. com)…

Scottsdale on Tornado Watch During Classic Car Auctions

Thursday January 21, 2010

Arizona has been hit hard by heavy storms causing havoc at the Scottsdale’s Annual Classic Car Auctions.  Earlier today, two tents at the Russo and Steele Car Auction collapsed due high winds and sent debris into the nearby Highway, the Loop 101, shutting down both direction for a time.

Barrette-Jackson staffers have been doing their best to dry off cars before coming up on the block in the main tent while concession stands outside are being blown down.

At 8:45pm, Barrett-Jackson’s President, Steve Davis asked that everyone leave the staging lanes and come inside to wait for a dangerous storm cell to pass.  The National Weather has issued a tornado watch for southwest Arizona, which includes the Phoenix metro area, to be in effect until 10 p.m. Thursday night.

Heavy rain and winds are expected to continue through Friday and then clear up for Saturday and Sunday.  We will be curious to see how much damage the storms do to the week’s auction total sales numbers.

And here’s the other one written by Peter Corbett from The Arizona Republic

Russo and Steele car auction estimates $1.5M in damage

Russo and Steele officials assessed damage Friday after an 800-foot-long auction tent blew onto the Loop 101, snarling traffic and leaving hundreds of valuable collector cars uncovered in a pounding rainstorm.

Heavy tent poles struck some cars and uncovered convertibles were pelted with rain in the ongoing storm that has blasted through the state this week. A collector-car insurance executive estimated damages to the vehicles could exceed $1.5 million.Russo and Steele announced late Friday morning that owners would not be allowed to inspect their cars until at least Saturday morning because the Scottsdale fire marshal has not declared the auction site safe.

Drew and Josephine Alcazar, Russo and Steele owners, hoped to resume the auction Saturday, but there was still a lot of cleanup to do.

“By no stretch of the imagination are we down for the count,” Drew Alcazar said Friday as tent crews worked to clear away the damaged tents.

Public safety officials cleared out people from Russo and Steele’s two display tents late Thursday when the high winds threatened the structures, and the auction continued in the main tent, Josephine Alcazar said.

High winds lifted the north tent high off the ground about 6:15 p.m. and it crashed down on the freeway east of Scottsdale Road, she said.

Russo and Steele shut down the auction and cleared the site. The south tent then blew over, but did not go onto the roadway.

Chuck Favour, Hagerty Insurance vice president of claims, said his company has insured about 125 of the cars at Russo and Steele.

After viewing the auction site from the Loop 101, he estimated that as many as half the 600 cars on the lot were damaged with dents and scratches from tent poles and debris.

Among the cars that were stranded on the site Friday was a 1948 Tucker convertible that could draw bids of more than $1 million.

A 1913 White Gentleman’s Roadster was struck by a pole and an uncovered 1916 Ford Model T Fire Chief car sat out in the rain after a flimsy tarp blew off of it.

Favour expected the claims would average about $5,000 per car.

That works out to claims approaching $1.5 million.

He said he would be surprised if Russo and Steele was able to resume the auction.

Favour said a previous auction in Carlisle, Pa., sustained damage when a much smaller tent collapsed a few years ago.

Other Valley auctions continued on Friday. Barrett-Jackson had to move everyone into its main auction tent as a precaution Thursday night, but otherwise the event continued without major disruption.

Craig Jackson, Barrett-Jackson chairman, said his staff circled the tents with tractor-trailers to deflect the high winds that were rattling the structures.

As a car guy, he said, it was very sad to see what had happened at the Russo and Steel auction site.

RM Auctions reported the highest sale of the week so far on Thursday night at the Arizona Biltmore. A 1963 Aston Martin DB4 sold for $1 million.

On Friday morning, the Arizona Department of Public Safety closed the eastbound on-ramp to the Loop 101 at Scottsdale Road because of the cleanup efforts at Russo and Steele.

The freeway was closed in both directions between Scottsdale and Hayden roads for several hours after the tent landed on the roadway.

Russo and Steele, a Valley-based company, is in its 10th year of holding car auctions in Scottsdale.

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2010 CLASSIC CAR AUCTION CALENDAR

January 15, 2010

As an automobile enthusiast, you might like to keep an eye and ear on the upcoming classic and vintage car auction season. There’s practically a year’s worth in January alone! From most accounts, last year was a good one with auction sales records broken so it seems that car collecting has weathered the Great Recession pretty well. We’d like to keep you up-to-date on car auction-related info, so keep in touch. Happy to hear any of your reports on auctions you watch and/or participate in — just post a blog entry. Also, please let us know of any major auctions that are missing from this list and let us know of any corrections. Going, going…

Kruse 39th Annual Scottsdale Collector Car Auction
January 16-17, 2010
Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa, Glendale, Arizona
www.kruse.com

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2010
January 18-24, 2010
WestWorld of Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona
www.barrett-jackson.com

RM Auctions Automobiles of Arizona
January 21-22, 2010
Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa Phoenix, Arizona
www.rmauctions.com

Kruse South Florida Collector Car Auction
January 22-24, 2010
Miami-Dade County Fair Expo Center, Miami, Florida
www.kruse.com

Mecum Kissimmee, FL Auction
January 28-31, 2010
Osceola Heritage Park, 1875 Silver Spur Lane, Kissimmee, Florida
www.mecum.com

Leake Oklahoma City Car Auction
February 19-20, 2010
Oklahoma City Fairgrounds, Cox Pavilion, 3212 Wichita Walk, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
www.leakecarauction.com

Atlantic City Classic Car Show & Auction
Feburary 26-28, 2010
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey
www.acclassiccars.com

RM Auctions Automobiles of Amelia Island
March 13, 2010
The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida
www.rmauctions.com

RM Auctions Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale
March 26-28, 2010
Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center Fort Lauderdale, Florida
www.rmauctions.com

Leake Auction in partnership with Dan Kruse Classics
March 27, 2010
Alamodome, 100 Montana St., San Antonio, Texas
www.leakecarauction.com

Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach 2010
April 1-3, 2010
The Americraft Expo Center at the South Florida Fairgrounds, Palm Beach, Florida
www.barrett-jackson.com

Mecum Kansas City, MO
April 9-10, 2010
Auction Bartle Hall – Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W. 13th St., Kansas City, Missouri
www.mecum.com

RM Auctions Classic Car Auction of Michigan
April 24-25, 2010
The Rock Financial ShowPlace, Novi, Michigan
www.rmauctions.com

RM Auctions Sporting Classics of Monaco
May 1, 2010
The Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
www.rmauctions.com

Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic Auction – 23rd Year
May 19-23, 2010
Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E 38th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
www.mecum.com

Kruse Auburn Spring 2010 Collector Car Auction – 19th Annual Auburn Spring Motorfair
May 20-23, 2010
Kruse International Auction Park, Auburn, Indiana
www.kruse.com

Leake Tulsa 2010 Auction
June 11-13, 2010
Quik Trip Center at Expo Square / Tulsa Fairgrounds, Tulsa, Oklahoma
www.leakecarauction.com

Mecum St. Paul Auction / the MSRA 37th Back to the 50’s With the Minnesota Street Rod Association
June 18-19, 2010
Minnesota State Fairgrounds, 1265 North Snelling Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota
www.mecum.com

Bloomington Gold Corvette Auction / Bloomington Gold Corvettes – USA Premier Corvette Auction at America’s Premier Corvette Show
June 25-26, 2010
Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 East Main Street St., Charles, Illinois

Barrett-Jackson Orange County 2010
June 25-27, 2010
OC Fair & Event Center, Costa Mesa, California
www.barrett-jackson.com

Mecum Des Moines, IA Auction
July 16-17, 2010
Iowa State Fairgrounds, East 30th & East University Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa
www.mecum.com

RM Auctions Vintage Motor Cars of Meadow Brook
July 24, 2010
Shotwell Gustafson Pavilion at Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan
www.rmauctions.com

RM Auctions Sports & Classics of Monterey
August 13-14, 2010
Portola Hotel & Spa and Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California
www.rmauctions.com

Mecum at Monterey
August 13-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa on Del Monte Golf Course, 1 Old Golf Course Road Monterey, California
www.mecum.com

Kruse The Auburn Auction 2010
September 1-7, 2010
Kruse International Auction Park, Auburn, Indiana
www.kruse.com

Mecum St. Charles Auction
September 16-19, 2010
Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 East Main Street, St. Charles, Illinois
www.mecum.com

RM Auctions Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey
October 8, 2010
Hershey Lodge, Hershey, Pennsylvania
www.rmauctions.com

RM Auctions Automobiles of London
October 27, 2010
Battersea Evolution, London, United Kingdom
www.rmauctions.com

Mecum Kansas City Auction
December 3-4, 2010
Bartle Hall – Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W. 13th St., Kansas City, Missouri
www.mecum.com

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Maine’s Most Comprehensive Listing of Car Shows, Clubs & Events

May 21, 2009

Portland Motor Club has built the most comprehensive listing of car shows, cruise-ins, car clubs and special events anywhere in the state. We regularly check other sources to make sure that our lists are current and complete. 

Currently we have listings for both one-time and regular/weekly events in Acton, Auburn, Augusta, Avon, Bangor, Bar Harbor, Biddeford, Boothbay Harbor, Bridgton, Buxton, Camden, China, Dresden, Durham, Ellsworth, Freeport, Fryeburg, Gardiner, Lisbon Falls, Livermore Falls, Milo, Naples, Sanford, New Gloucester, Orrington, Owls Head, Oxford, Portland, Scarborough, Shapleigh, South Paris, Standish, Stockton Springs, Topsham, Warren, Waterboro, Wilton, Winterport, Winthrop, and Wiscasset.

If you know of another special or regular car-related event, please send an e-mail ASAP to info@porltandmotorclub.com and we’ll try to get it into the listings THAT DAY!

Likwise, if a listing is no longer current or is inaccurate, please let us know that too!

Thanks for visiting our blog and our listings. Please check back often and share this information with your car enthusiast friends!

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