Donald Osborne

Donald Osborne is a classic car historian, author, consultant and writer. An Accredited

Senior Appraiser (A.S.A.) member of the American Society of Appraisers, he works for

clients across the world on the acquisition, sale and valuation of classic vehicles and travels the US and Europe attending major events, rallies and auctions. He serves as judge and emcee at many leading automotive concours events.

Donald is seen as host of a recurring segment, ‘Assess & Caress with Donald Osborne’

on the CNBC Primetime show ‘Jay Leno’s Garage’. On the weekly program he shares

his knowledge on classic car values with Jay and the viewers.

Author of the book ‘Stile Transatlantico / Transatlantic Style- A Romance of Fins and

Chrome’, for which he was nominated as a Dean Batchelor Award finalist author for Motor

Press Guild's 2017 Book of the Year, he is also an Editor at Large for Sports Car Market magazine.

He contributed in 2018 to 'The Key', published by the Classic Car Trust and Donald’s writing on classic cars has also been published in The New York Times, BusinessWeek

Online, the Wall Street Journal, Art & Antiques, Palm Springs Life and Road & Track

among others.

He curated the exhibition ‘Ferrari and Futurists- An Italian Look at Speed’ at Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA and an exhibition based on ‘Stile Transatlantico’ at the Blackhawk Museums in Danville, CA.

A former Metropolitan Opera baritone, Donald still enjoys sharing his voice, as he has for a number of years singing the Italian National Anthem at the prize giving ceremony of the Mille Miglia Storica at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, Italy. Based in Southern California, he also spends a good portion of the year in Italy and considers it his second home.