An aerial shot of the Spring Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet and Corral. Despite rising gas prices, Carlisle Events is reporting good news from its first car event of the season. The final numbers arenât in yet, he said, but it appears that attendance at the Spring Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet and Corral was up from last year. Cumberland County Control corroborated that report Sunday, with a dispatcher reporting that the center received fewer calls than usual for a car show weekend. Carlisle police reported three minor accidents with the car show, numerous vehicles cited and towed for parking violations, and several RVs parked in a lot on Spring Road that had windows shot out with a pellet gun. read more

Astor, 83, an Anaheim radio entrepreneur, spent three years and lost what he said was $8 million trying to make his collection a public attraction. The record for a single car collection sold in one day is $36 million, set in October 2006 by the collection of Otis Chandler, whose family formerly owned the Los Angeles Times. Ian Kelleher, managing director of RM Auctions, the Chatham, Ontario, company handling sales for MacPherson and Astor, said he expects the two collections together to fetch almost as much as Chandler’s. Last May, RM Auctions set a record at an auction in Europe, selling $46 million worth of Ferrari sports and racing cars at a historic racetrack in Maranello, Italy. Astor is also selling his collection of vintage radios, telephones, toy trains and other appliances artifacts of America’s vanishing industrial design prowess. read more

Astor, 83, an Anaheim radio entrepreneur, spent three years and lost what he said was $8 million trying to make his collection a public attraction. The record for a single car collection sold in one day is $36 million, set in October 2006 by the collection of Otis Chandler, whose family formerly owned the Los Angeles Times. Ian Kelleher, managing director of RM Auctions, the Chatham, Ontario, company handling sales for MacPherson and Astor, said he expects the two collections together to fetch almost as much as Chandler’s. Last May, RM Auctions set a record at an auction in Europe, selling $46 million worth of Ferrari sports and racing cars at a historic racetrack in Maranello, Italy. Astor is also selling his collection of vintage radios, telephones, toy trains and other appliances artifacts of America’s vanishing industrial design prowess. read more