10 Aug 2023

Audi Club Auction Watch: 08.10.2023

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="88568"] Words: Steve Johnson Guten Tag Audi enthusiasts!  Searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites for a specific model, while fun, can take up your valuable time.  So let us do some of the daily grind for you.  Auction Watch monitors auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids.  Here in weekly Auction Watch, we post a short report with key data, a few pictures, and a link to the listing.  Our goal is to help...
23 Jun 2023

Ex-Mikkola/Hertz Audi Sport quattro S1 Group B Rally Car Headed to Bonhams Goodwood FOS Auction

[gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="87099"] If you've always wanted to own a works Group B spec Audi Sport quattro S1, this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed may be of interest to you. That's when chassis # SQ85EA905108, a former Hannu Mikkola / Arne Hertz example is headed to auction with Bonhams. Granted, a roadgoing Sport quattro will fetch over a half million dollars nowadays, so a factory prepared Group B racecar with a back story will go decidedly higher. Bonhams pre-sale e...
26 Jan 2022

Audi Club Auction Watch: 01.26.2022

With so many incredible auction platforms, both traditional and untraditional, enthusiasts could spend all day searching all these outlets for interesting cars hitting the market. Audi Club aims to keep its members up to date with Ingolstadt's finest as they are listed with this new series of stories. We'll scour the auction houses we know looking for interesting new finds, and hopefully our Audi enthusiast members will be informed enough to snap up the best of them. We've made a list of a...
1 Aug 2018

1934 Horch 780B Cabriolet Headed to Bonhams Monterey Auction

With Monterey Car Week looming, including a great number of classic car auctions, it's worth keeping track of places to be and events not to miss. Earlier this week we provided a general breakdown of the highly crowded Monterey Car Week schedule. Now, we're happy to add to that list with a callout to Bonhams' Quail Lodge Auction. Bonhams is quickly becoming the auction not to miss for Audi enthusiasts. Last year included a Sport quattro as part of a Group B collection, and also a pre-war ...
10 Feb 2018

1936 Horch in Bonhams Amelia Island Auction

Cars from Audi are still a rare thing at American top level collector car auctions. In as much, you might be surprised to know that we tend to see the brand's pre-war Auto Union offerings on the block as often as we see any of the modern classics. Take for instance this 1936 Horch 853 Roadster set to sell at the Bonhams auction at Amelia Island next month. Cars like this Horch were built in far fewer numbers than modern cars such as the ur quattro, likely closer to the uber rare homologat...
22 Sep 2017

Monterey Car Week: Bonham’s Quail Auction Preview

  There are any number of auctions going on in Monterey during car week, each by well established auction houses. For Audi enthusiasts though, there was just one this year that couldn’t be missed and that was the Bonhams sale held on the grounds of The Quail country club. First and foremost, the Bonhams sale featured an array of Group B rally cars, primarily in road-going homologation form. Obviously, it was an Audi Sport quattro amongst that mix that drew our eye most directly. Tha...