Merged: 250 GTO sold for $20 million +

I don't want to start rumors.. I didn't talk to Mr. Heuberger so I'm not sure if it's his...
Jo Vonlanthen was there with his 500 F2 but he had a modern transporter.
Another dark green 250 F was loaded on a different trailer.
An then there was David Piper but it's definitely not his transporter.

Number plates are german dealer plates for short term use....

I started a thread on the event, it was moved to "Ferrari discussion (not model specific)"

I gonna post more fotos there.

regards Till.

 

Putting serial numbers aside for a second, is USD$30 the correct figure?

 

Perhaps the sale was $30M US, minus a 5% commission?

 

15M GBP, ex-Chairman Lee GTO.

Steve

 

who is the dealer?

 

There was a cool photo of that truck with Juan Pablo and ice [vodka] boy on the Nordschleife when they drove for McLaren.

 

Speaking of Jacky Setton, I recently found his castle and track west of Paris on google earth but the track has vanished and is covered with grass....is that a software trick for privacy or was the track REALLY "cancelled"?

Oh and I managed to find the Bamford's estate and track in Staffordshire: not so easy but satisfying! It is of course the track around the lake seen in the de Cadenet Ferrari Maserati etc videos.

Best regards,

Marc

 

I had heard that he liquidated the cars so that he could "retire" on a monster yacht

 

Surely you mean the 1937 W125? 646 BHP!!

 

Your right; the 1934/35 car was the W25. The W125 is from 1936/37

 

I was in Phil Hill's shop in around 1978, and Phil was describing to my dad & I that the '63 GTO in his shop (for paint?) was going to be offerred for the then-incredible sum of $100k! Phil was incredulous!

If he'd only filled up his daily-driver (Peugeot 404) with "junk" parts when he went home from the factory every time...

 

3223 was for sale in 1966, the "asking" price was $4,000. It was being held hostage for it's outstanding storage bill. It finally went for $3600....

I couldn't get my dad to help me buy it, I had $2400 and would have needed $1200.... Which wasn't a whole lot of money even then...

But for a nail.....

 

Hmmmmm, lets see....in '66 I was working for $1 an hour. Later I got a raise to $1.10. Course, a dollar went a lot further then. My first car which I was driving then cost $200. (a '60 Simca).....my second car also cost $200....a '61 bugeye sprite...

Ferraris were something I read about in Magazines like Road and Track. I never dreamed I could ever own one.

Tom W

 

My dad wasn't a car guy either, and I have a few stories, but none THAT painful!

Jack

 

Back in the day I couldn't convince my dad a GTO was worth 6Gs. Never told him what it ended up being worth.

 

I've heard similarly. While I do not know the particulars of this specific deal, impressive as it is, it is not completely unfathomable.

 

Around 1969 I remember a 340 Mexico coupe sitting on a lot on Sunset Blvd. The price was $3000.

 

I was talking to my dad before he passed away and said "remember that car you wouldn't let me buy?. Now it's worth more than 10 million dollars, we both could'a retired early if we had bought it". He laughed... "Yea, maybe, but you'da probalby killed yourself in it and it would have ended up in a junkyard". He was probably right on that point too....

 

Except the junkyard part.

 

Sad thing is that my dad was a HUGE car guy, but passed up on too many- Mercedes "S" kompressor, T44 Bugatti, (both around $20 thou in the mid '70's), 427 Cobra for $7 thou, 365 GTC for $15 thou, etc. etc.

Luckily, dad DID buy a few classics back in the day, and we had alot of fun with 'em. Unfurtunately, none of 'em are in my garage. Still have the memories...and my '66 giulia Super is still mine, and ain't going anywhere without me.

 

How true. In my little world, growing up in the Florida panhandle, a MG was an exotic car. However, I still remember seeing a Porsche 904 parked in the front yard of a house as I rode the bus to school. None of my friends had a clue about the car, but I did because I had built a model. When I tell this story today, people look at me funny and wander off. After there is no way that a Porsche 904 would have been on the streets of Pensacola, Florida in 1965 is there?

Dale

 

Dale,
I think a lot of interesting cars showed up at Pensacola during 60s, early 70s due to the Naval Air Station. Pilots' cars.

Roger

 

Dale,

Was the 904 white with a blue stripe?

Jerry