Interesting two of the top 3 sales were Ford GT’s, with similar mileage but very different prices.

Want to dive deeper into any of these listings? Just click on the car to take you directly to the listing.

As you know, over the past few months we've been quietly building a few tools that I genuinely think make things a little easier for anyone buying, selling or working around enthusiast cars.

We've now got two completely free shipping tools. Our domestic shipping calculator gives you a live quote to move a car anywhere in the U.S., which you can then book incredibly easily. And if you're bringing a car into the country, our import calculator works out the freight, tariffs, duties and even your local taxes so you can see what that car will actually cost you landed.

Neither asks for your email address before showing you the answer. No phone number. No salesperson calling you five minutes later. Just use them.

Then last month we added the TDV Jobs Board, pulling together opportunities at many of the platforms we write about every day. We've just added some new roles at Cars & Bids and Bring a Trailer, and there are opportunities for people at very different stages of their careers, across everything from marketing and finance to more automotive-specific roles.

And again, there's no clever monetization behind it. Companies aren't paying us to list their jobs. You aren't paying us to see them. We're simply trying to build useful things for this community.

Which brings me rather nicely to something we've spent considerably longer building.

I'd make sure you open tomorrow's email.

We don't often see too many no-reserve cars on Sotheby's Motorsport, so it caught my attention that right now they've got quite a few running at the same time.

There's a 2019 Corvette Z06 3LZ, a 24-mile 2004 Corvette Z06 Commemorative Edition, a 1975 Corvette Convertible, a 1961 Corvette 270/283 and even a 1934 Ford Victoria custom panel truck all being allowed to find their own number.

But the standout for me is another Corvette, this 1990 ZR-1 showing just 409 miles from new.

I've written before about why I love seeing interesting cars offered at no reserve. It's one thing doing it with a relatively inexpensive car, but when you've got something genuinely unusual where the mileage makes it difficult to value, you're effectively asking the market to tell you what all that preservation is worth. And once the clock starts, you're selling it regardless of the answer.

This is a particularly interesting car to try it with. It's a first-year ZR-1, finished in Polo Green Metallic over Saddle leather, with the 375-hp 5.7-liter LT5 and six-speed manual. The ZR-1 package alone added $27,056 when new, which gives you some idea of just how serious this thing was in 1990.

But really, the story here is those 409 miles. The listing represents them as miles from new, backed by a clean Carfax, and the car even retains its original Goodyear Eagle ZR tires. It also still has both removable roof panels, its window sticker, factory literature, keys and all the other bits you hope haven't disappeared after 36 years.

At that point, you're not really comparing it with a normal ZR-1 anymore. The interesting question becomes how much extra the market is actually prepared to pay for the preservation. What's the difference between a 409-mile ZR-1 and one with 4,000, 14,000 or 40,000 miles?

At the time of writing it's at $28,500 with two days remaining. I'm not going to tell you where it should finish because that's rather the point.

There's no reserve sitting there telling us what the seller thinks it's worth. On Thursday, the market gets to tell us instead.

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