To this day, those events stand as the greatest going-out-of-business sale the classic car world has ever seen. Three blockbuster events-all done rapid-fire style and with every car selling at no reserve-played to a packed house of the era’s top collectors and those who aspired to join them.
Those auctions liquidated the holdings of the Harrah’s Automobile Collection, considered by many to be the most significant amassment of vintage cars ever assembled. In a sense, however, they all flow from a series of sales that took place in the mid-1980s.
For serious collectors of vintage cars, the calendar is filled with top-flight auctions, many of which could vie for the title of most important.
