Auctions 2021, a genuinely positive balance

The collapse of the international classic car auction market in 2020, when the pandemic threatened to bring with it a long and hard-felt economic crisis, brought down the values and quantities of cars sold to the same levels as 10 years ago. This violent and sudden demise was exacerbated by the impossibility to organize physical auctions in presence, replaced in extremis by online equivalents which, against all the odds, achieved the hitherto unthinkable: large-scale adoption by the large auction houses.