Caroline Cassini with her 1948 MG TC near her home in Marina del Rey, Calif.
Photographer: Joyce Lee/BloombergHow'd You Get That Car?
The Pre-War Car Market Is Thriving. Caroline Cassini Knows Why
The next installment of our series about the way we find and love our vintage autos looks at a sporty midcentury MG.
In 2021, the first time I spoke with Caroline Cassini, the US head of Market by Bonhams, she told me that prewar cars would be hot sellers in the coming months at auction houses worldwide.
At the time, I took her prediction with a grain of salt. My preconceptions about old Packards and Duesenbergs pegged their owners as retired business tycoons and white-haired enthusiasts—not exactly the most vibrant demographic in the world and certainly not where the heat was, collecting-wise.