Numbers and originality
Bidders want the chassis, engine and gearbox numbers, and whether they match the factory record. A careful house says exactly which components are original and what documents support it.
Markets · Motor Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
Collector cars, motorcycles and automobilia, sold under your own banner
Motor bidders buy on numbers, history and photographs, often without seeing the car. Auctionomy gives every vehicle a full lot page with its documentation, on a website that carries your house's name.
How your bidders buy
What your bidders read for
The history file sells the car
Registration papers, service records, restoration invoices, ownership history and period photographs all move an estimate, and bidders expect them described.
Cars, bikes, plates and automobilia are different sales
Specialists treat vehicles, motorcycles, number plates, parts and automobilia as separate kinds of lot, with different inspection and estimate expectations.
Catalogued your way
Every line of the entry has its place
Description, estimate, condition and provenance are separate parts of every lot on Auctionomy, and each one shows on the lot page. The entry shown here is an illustration, written the way the trade writes it.
Illustrative lot · fictional
Lot 22. 1967 Australian-assembled two-door sports saloon, manual, matching numbers
Chassis, engine and gearbox numbers as recorded on the factory build plate. Finished in its original white with red interior; one repaint in 1994.
Estimate A$48,000–58,000
- Condition
- Sound body with minor paint chips, engine rebuilt in 2015, original radio not working. Being sold with current registration.
- Provenance
- Three owners from new; with a history file of service records, the 2015 rebuild invoices and period photographs.
Your sale on Auctionomy
Run the way your house runs it
A full lot page for each vehicle
Write the specification and numbers in the description, the history file as provenance and the known faults as condition, with as many photographs as the car needs.
Reserves and estimates on every lot
Set a low and high estimate and a reserve per vehicle. Lots that don't meet the reserve stay unsold, the way your consignors expect.
Timed sales with an extended close
Run online timed sales for cars and bikes with your own increments. A bid in the final moments extends the close, so a car isn't lost to a last-second snipe.
Live sales, with streaming in development
Run your saleroom sale as a live auction with absentee bids taken in advance. Live video streaming to online bidders is in development.
Your trade, your house
Fluent in the trade, and unmistakably yours
Blackspur Motor & Touring Auctions is a demonstration house: fictional, built on Auctionomy to show how a house specialising in motor cars, motorcycles & automobilia looks on the platform. Its name, colours, typeface and page layout are its own, assembled from the same components every house uses. Yours would carry your name, your logo and your look, on your own domain.
No commission on the hammer price
A flat subscription, agreed with your house. Your bidders register with you, and the buyer's premium you set is yours.