Ferrari auction nets record ?6,875,000 bid
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RM Auctions and Sotheby's just concluded an historic auction at Ferrari headquarters that produced the greatest price ever paid for a Ferrari. Among the nearly $50 million worth of Ferraris sold, the record LeMans-winning 1962 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM Testa Rosa Spyder was won by anonymous telephone bidder for the price of €6,875,000. For those who always like an untrustworthy conversion on hand, that equates to something like $9,252,375 USD. The actual bid was €6,250,000, but there's apparently a 10% commission to be paid, as well.
While the '62 Tesa Rosa Spyder didn't go for enough to make it the most expensive car auction ever (that record's held by a 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royal Sports Coupe that was sold by Christie's back in 1987 for $11 million), it's certainly near the top. It does, however, make the car the most expensive Ferrari every auctioned.
You can check the entire auction list and each car's winning bid by viewing RM Auctions' site for the event. You can also read a detailed account of the 1962 Testa Rosa Spyder's history by clicking here. As well as cars for auction, Winding Road reports that parts, memorobilia and other paraphanalia were fetching big bucks too, especially if they had the name "Michael Schumacher" on them. A set of the ex-Maranello F1 driver's underwear he wore while racing went for $742!
[Source: RM Auctions, Winding Road]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Solo Racer 8:28PM (5/21/2007)
"an historic"? Ugh, that needed an editor.
On a positive note, this was the car driven by American Phil Hill, who went on to win the F1 driver's championship for Ferrari.
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Solo Racer 8:30PM (5/21/2007)
And for those who thought the Veyron was the first outrageous car with a Bugatti badge there's the aforementioned Type 41, which recently went up for sale:
http://www.forbes.com/2001/11/05/1105vow.html
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fizzandpop 8:40PM (5/21/2007)
#1: "An historic" is perfectly acceptable grammar, as in many dialects of English the "h" is silent, thus requiring the prefix "an" in both spoken and written communication.
Now, if this car had 01 on the side and a bit of TV hillbilly provenance, I might have bid this up over $11 mill.
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M 9:57PM (5/21/2007)
those double nostrils on the front of the car look just as ugly here as they do on the f430! they ruin an otherwise absolutely beautiful car.
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Scott 12:59AM (5/22/2007)
Wait until one of those 39 err 36 250 GTO's comes up for auction
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vectorbug 1:52AM (5/22/2007)
Truly one of the most amazing and beautiful machines ever created.
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ta 7:07AM (5/22/2007)
Talking about grammar!
It's a Testa Rossa with 2 sssssssss
Just magnificent! I just wish it was in my garage.
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bmoredlj 9:35AM (5/22/2007)
That's more like it! I thought for a moment "Autoblog" would have to change its name to "GeneralLeeblog". Perhaps John Schneider should be taking notice: THIS is the kind of car that brings in seven figures.
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John Paul Rowan 9:55AM (5/22/2007)
This is an amazing car, I hope the owner actually uses it and doesn't just let it sit. These cars are ment for driving.
http://www.refinedrogue.com
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zach 10:29AM (5/22/2007)
John Paul Rowan -
Just so you know... perhaps the best part about vintage Ferrari owners is that they tend to drive/race their cars - a lot!
From just about everything I've seen or read; other Ferrari owners look down on those who keep their cars garaged.
Ferraris were always meant to be driven hard, and most vintage owners tend to do that. Just look around the internet and you'll find TONS of info about all the vintage Ferrari races all around the world.
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Solo Racer 10:47AM (5/22/2007)
"3. #1: "An historic" is perfectly acceptable grammar, as in many dialects of English the "h" is silent, thus requiring the prefix "an" in both spoken and written communication."
No, it's not. First, the "h" in historic isn't silent. Second this blog is based in the U.S. Third, none of the Brits I know say this, nor do they say "an horse" or "an house." From the floor of the House of Commons, OK, but everywhere else it sounds like pretentious crap.
Back to Ferraris. It's great car, but the shark nose looks odd because of it's flattened comapred with the GP car. The clear bubble over the intake trumpets makes up for it.
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fizzandpop 1:36PM (5/22/2007)
11: It's not a debate, it's in the AP style guide and the CMS. Maybe you're just one of these people who thinks that their opinion matters more than accepted standards. Oh, and 99% of the English population drop their Hs. You're obviously hanging out with a bunch of blokes called Quentin.
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Solo Racer 5:12PM (5/22/2007)
"12. 11: It's not a debate, it's in the AP style guide and the CMS. Maybe you're just one of these people who thinks that their opinion matters more than accepted standards. Oh, and 99% of the English population drop their Hs. You're obviously hanging out with a bunch of blokes called Quentin."
I just checked the current, online AP Stylebook, and it is not in there. I don't give damn about the CMS, and if it's there it doesn't mean that for American speakers of English that it isn't pretentious.
As for 99% figure, that's crap unless you can back it up.
And finally, I don't think Paul Dean of the Robb Report is "Quentin" as you put it.
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Dustin 10:12PM (5/22/2007)
*watches for flying textbooks*
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Solo Racer 12:40PM (5/23/2007)
Dustin, I prefer a dual with pica poles [ruler that was used in newspapers before it all got computerized].