Russo and Steele
1948 Delahaye Chapron’s Dandy Grand Luxe (Consignment #2109)
1967 ASA 1100 Spyder (Consignment #2118)
R USSO AND S TEELE S COTTSDALE A UCTION — J ANUARY 18−21
by David M. Brown
You’ll be ‘Sold! Sold! Sold!’ on the 18th Russo
and Steele Scottsdale Auction, January 17–21, which
returns to Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, off the
Loop 101, just east of Scottsdale.
More the 800 cars will be offered, 130-plus ven-
dors will participate and 55,000 attendees are expected
for the 18th Scottsdale event, noted among enthusiasts
as “The World’s Most Exciting Collector Automobile
Auction” for its “auction in the round” format.
Among the docketed vehicles are a 1964 Chevro-
let Cheetah, 1948 Delahaye Chapron’s Dandy Grand
Luxe, 1967 ASA 1100 Spider and a 1967 Chevrolet
Corvette.
“We have a completely redesigned layout this
year. The new layout will help us service our in-
creasing number of high-quality offerings and our
ever-growing legion of visitors,” says Drew Alcazar,
auction president and CEO of Scottsdale-based Russo
and Steele’s Collector Automobile Auctions, which
also has annual events in June at Newport Beach
and August at Monterey, California.
That new layout features the Main Auction Pavil-
ion on all asphalt, and the main entrance will be through
the new indoor, climate-controlled, on-asphalt 13,000-
square-foot Vendor Pavilion. Other new features are
a food-court-style seating area for the Food Truck
Showcase, a JumboTron streaming the live auction
and direct access to the Main Auction Pavilion.
The auction preview is Wednesday January 17,
9 a.m.–5 p.m., and the action begins at noon daily
Thursday, January 18, through Saturday, January 20,
and at 11 a.m. on Sunday, January 21. And, on Friday,
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January 19, 10 a.m. to noon, the “Unmasking the
Auction” seminar is scheduled.
“Exciting and fast, the ‘64 Cheetah is a wild ma-
chine built to be a Cobra-killer,” Alcazar explains. “At
1500 pounds, the small-block Chevy V-8 can easily spin
the tires. The wheelbase is so short and the engine is
so far back that there’s no driveshaft, only a single
universal joint between the transmission and rear axle.
Effectively, it’s a mid-engine car.”
This 1948 Delahaye, purchased in the 1970s, is
similar to the 135Ms that the great Paris-based firm
had built before the onset of World War II. The hand-
built Henri Chapron Carrossier body is in a style
known as the Dandy Grand Luxe.
Ferrari insisted that any car with his name must
have 12 cylinders, so the rights to build the baby
Ferrari were sold to the de Nora family, which created
Autocostruzioni Societa per Azioni (ASA) in Milan.
Only a few 1964 ASA 1100cc Spiders were built ––
some estimate only six –– with this one being one of
two with this engine.
The numbers-matching, rare red-on-red 1967
Corvette was produced in the last year of the mag-
nificent second-generation cars. “It’s powered by the
wicked solid-lifter RPO L71 427 V-8 engine packing
435 factory-rated horsepower and mated to a Muncie
M21 close-ratio four-speed manual transmission,”
Alcazar says.
Bidder registration is $200 and includes admis-
sion for preview day and four days of the auction for
the bidder and a guest. For more information, see
russoandsteele.com or call 602.252.2697.
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