Well, the last of the summer car auctions just ended and set many new records. At the top of the heap was a 1962 Ferrari 250GTO that fetched a whapping $48,405,000 at RM Sotheby’s, helping RM reach total sales of $157,931,940, a 19% sales increase vs. 2017.
Not to be outdone, the people at Gooding & Co., sold the second highest priced car, a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ that once belonged to actor Gary Cooper and was part of the Briggs Cunningham collection for almost 40 years, for $22 million, setting a record for an American car at auction.
Mecum had a total of 690 cars for sale and sold 360 of them for a total of $44.7 million. Their top dollar car was a 1933 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe Disappearing Top Roadster that sold for $3,850,000.
Preliminary sales numbers, when you add all the auctions up, show that 1376 cars crossed the block, with
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LOCATION: Parc du Concours, Corner of Stevenson Drive and Portola Road
TIMES: Viewings begin on Wednesday, August 22, at 10 am and continue daily through the Auctions
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Midnight Blue w/Black interior. 5.4L; Supercharged V8/6-spd. manual transaxle.
When the new Ford GT was introduced to the world on ’05, the car became an instant classic all over again! I was so close to the original Ford GT of the ’60’s the lucky few that were able to purchase one new back in the day could almost picture themselves heading down the Mulsanne Straight at LeMans going 200mph! They were only produced for two years; ’05-’06. And needless to say, demand was high for these ultra-high-performance cars. In hindsight, they were good investments.
We don’t often get one, so we jumped at the chance when this one owner ’06 became available to us. The car has only racked up 5,600 miles since
