The Daily Vroom

Good morning Vroomers,

Yesterday we featured this 1988 Porsche 959 Sport and wondered whether it would actually cross the line. It didn’t, with bidding stalling at $3.03m, and judging by the lack of late action it probably was not especially close to the seller’s real number either.

The branded title chatter clearly did not help, but sometimes it just the right bidders are not in the room. And the right bidders were in the room for the 2013 Ferrari GTS that sold on SOMO yesterday for $600k, their highest sale this month, congrats to them and they’ve already sold more cars this month than the previous. Talking of high sale prices, Cars & Bids will be hoping their Velocity sale ending this weekend could produce their highest sale of the year.

YESTERDAY’S TOP 3 SALES

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Sale of the Day

Yesterday it was the 959 Sport dominating the conversation on Bring a Trailer. Today, it was nice seeing PCarMarket remind people they can still put together a seriously strong enthusiast sale too.

This 2022 Porsche 992 GT3 Touring sold for $277k after 66 bids, and honestly it is hard to build a much more universally appealing modern Porsche right now. Shark Blue, six-speed manual, Touring Package, just 1,700 miles and no giant rear wing hanging off the back.

The Touring market remains fascinating because Porsche somehow turned the “understated” GT3 into the cool one. Same engine, same experience, same 9,000 rpm insanity, just without screaming at everyone in the Starbucks parking lot that you watched Nürburgring onboard videos before bed.

What stood out here though was the bidding itself. Multiple serious bidders, proper late action and a final number that actually felt believable in today’s market rather than completely detached from reality one way or the other.

And honestly, good to see PCarMarket getting these kinds of sales again because competition matters in this space. The enthusiast market is better when multiple platforms are capable of producing strong results on high-quality cars.

Does This Interest You?

One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is that there’s just so much noise around the online auction market now.

Hundreds of listings ending every day, constant re-listings, bidder games, weird pricing swings, hidden bargains, cars quietly sitting under market, and genuinely interesting stuff that most people simply never see because everything moves so quickly.

The Daily Vroom will always stay exactly what it is now. A quick read. I don’t think most people want a 45-minute market report landing in their inbox every morning.

But at the same time, there is only so much I can realistically share in that format, and one thing newsletters naturally miss is the back-and-forth discussion side of things. A lot of the best conversations I have around this market actually happen privately through emails and DMs with readers.

So I’ve been thinking about potentially building something additional alongside TDV. Maybe a smaller and more in-depth community built around auctions of course, ending-soon cars, deeper market dives, “would you buy this?” discussions, bidder behavior, and more real-time conversations around the enthusiast market.

Not one of those communities that turns into memes and spam after a week. Something genuinely useful.

Auctions To Keep An Eye On

Having had a Grand Wagoneer back in the day, people have been sending me photos of this thing for years.

And today, this absolute monstrosity of a Newport Convertible Engineering Porsche Cayenne finally sells on Cars & Bids as a no reserve.

Honestly, this is exactly why online auctions are still so entertaining.

Nobody would ever sit down and say this is a “good” car. The comments section spent the entire week comparing it to everything from a PT Cruiser to a Chrysler LeBaron, yet somehow the thing ended up with over 1,200 watchers and nearly 200 comments.

And weirdly, I kind of get it. The whole thing is so unbelievably committed to the bit that it almost becomes cool again. Convertible conversion. Painted wood trim. White over black. California car. It looks like somebody gave a Grand Wagoneer and a Cayenne Turbo too much tequila in Newport Beach circa 2008 and just let things happen.

The funny thing with cars like this is that normal market logic completely disappears. Nobody cross-shops this against another Cayenne. Nobody cares about mileage, bore scoring fears, or resale graphs. At that point you’re just buying a rolling inside joke that somehow became internet-famous.

And honestly, seeing a car like this create more engagement than half the six-figure exotics online this week tells you a lot about where enthusiast culture actually is right now.

People don’t just want perfect cars anymore. They want stories.

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II’ve always thought the Citroën SM is one of those cars that makes absolutely no sense and complete sense at the exact same time.

French luxury coupe. Maserati V6. Hydropneumatic suspension. Front-wheel drive. Single spoke steering wheel. Covered headlights. And somehow the whole thing ended up looking like it arrived from about 25 years into the future.

And honestly, that’s why I love seeing cars like this come up for auction.

Because in a world where so many collector cars are starting to feel a bit predictable, the SM still feels genuinely weird. Not “quirky for Instagram” weird. Properly strange. The kind of car where you assume the engineers were either complete geniuses or completely insane.

Probably both.This one is particularly interesting too because it sounds like the hard part has already been done. Long-term specialist ownership, years of maintenance by Citroën SM experts, strong colors, good documentation, and no obvious horror-story needs being flagged.

And yet despite all that, these cars still sit in this weird zone where people admire them massively but relatively few are brave enough to actually buy one.

That’s what makes the market for them fascinating. Everyone says they love unusual cars until unusual cars actually appear. Then suddenly everyone wants another air-cooled 911 instead.

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Another week, another genuinely interesting collection landing on Hagerty.

And honestly, this one stands out because it feels real. Not “assembled by an advisor and parked under covers for 20 years” real. Actual enthusiast real.

Doc McAdam was apparently the kind of guy who would pull into the hospital parking lot in GT350s, Cobras, and high-performance Mustangs before heading in to perform neurosurgery. Which, frankly, is one of the cooler collector car backstories we’ve had in a while.

And the best part is the collection reflects that mindset too.

There’s a genuine mix of serious metal, driver cars, weird projects, and stuff that clearly wasn’t bought because some market report said it would outperform the S&P 500.

The standout for me is obviously the ’65 Shelby GT350. Not because it’s some untouched concours museum piece, because it absolutely isn’t. In fact, the comments section is basically one long debate about how much of the car is still original at this point.

But that’s almost why I like it more. The thing has lived an actual life. Drag raced early on, restored in the ’80s, modified by Doc for real driving, fitted with a 302 and five-speed, and then properly used for decades instead of sitting inside a humidity-controlled bubble waiting for auction week in Monterey.

And honestly, collections like this are becoming more important to the online auction world.

People are getting a little tired of perfectly curated investment-grade inventory with the exact same formula every single time. These kinds of collections feel more human. More personal. More connected to how enthusiasts actually use cars.

Also, a no reserve TVR Griffith project sitting next to a six-figure Shelby is exactly the kind of chaos I fully support.

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