Kenny Schachter provides a bit of news buried inside his Artnet column. There he reveals that third-party auction guarantees have come to the classic car market via the ever-savvy Adam Lindemann who may have become:

in all probability the first to have guaranteed a vehicle at public auction in August of this year: a 1953 Jaguar C-Type Works Lightweight in the RM Sotheby’s auction in Monterey that sold for $13,200,00.

Kenny Schachter on St. Moritz and Vito Schnabel  (artnet news)