Bonhams Gstaad auction & results

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Sotheby's cutting back workforce.

 

Someone bought this Series 3 Aston for under $12k?! Sign me up!
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4138009&iSaleNo=16256&iSaleSectionNo=3
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Trust me, you wouldn't have wanted that one! Auto with a failed MOT inspection due to rusty sills. Other bodywork issues were showing and the whole car had a 'musty' smell as if it had been kept in a damp garage... A brave person took that one on!

 

hi Andrew,my father for years owned a Rolls Royce Phantom 111 , 3 pos Gurney Nutting Sedanca #3AZ158,fantastic car sold in 1972 for the going price at the time of 2 x 275 GTB/4s ie 360C dads car.

 

Man it's a though time in auction land or I am wrong?
I am somehow surprised that that RHD Daytona didn't sell; 20,000 miles, plexi and only a couple of owners???

Does somebody perhaps know if the 1956 Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta Prototipo 0435GT that will be auctioned in Gstaad could be a runner for the MM?
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Thanks,

JR

 

It has NO Mille Miglia history. It is NO reserve.
Marcel Massini

 

yes but it would get a run.
Rob Bailey

 

Possibly but by no means guaranteed. The MM is way over subscribed and getting harder to get an entry in. The only cars that are pretty much guaranteed an entry are those that ran in the original.

Cheers

 

Seems like everyone wants to run the MM retro, and it's getting more and more difficult to get an entry accepted unless the specific car you are trying to enter has actual MM history. There are very few cars with actual MM history available, even down to the Fiat based 1100cc and 750cc class cars, and those are commanding $200,000+ !!! I know of an early 1950s Stanguellini 750 barchetta that the owner thinks is worth $500,000!

 

I have been following these auction threads for a while and resisted posting until now. It interests me that in these tough economic times people are still looking for what I call boom time prices, yes whilst some cars are historically significant even they are not immune to what going out in the market. Look at how GTO's fell in the early 90's, the same will happen now.

Sure there are guys out there with money but I think even some of them are looking at consolidating rather than splashing out.

Just an opinion.

 

I think I'll shoot for the BMW Isetta that ran it last year. (Saw it on the Discovery Channel show about the MM).

 

Hello Jim, garateed is the one with an period correct car and an famous person -well knownperson in italy -on the copilot seat (Naomi C. will do)
the MM is an rolling coffee drive in the hands of mercedes public relations.
ciao
Cornelis

P:S the landscape/italians are still fantastic

 

http://www.classicdriver.net/uk/find/4100_results.asp?sorderby=tblManufacturers.sName+ASC%2C+tblModels.sModel+ASC%2C+bOfficial+DESC%2C+tblCars.sType+ASC&action=simple_search&coopid=0&lmanufacturer=10360&lcurrency=2&next=4100_results.asp&dealerid=0&bsubmit=true&bclicked=false&bshowstock=Wahr&lCarID=1769807

theres one for you ! a 1948 cisitalia 202mm spyder nuvolari. kidston tells me i need to buy this to get into the mm ! he is probably right...so anybody who is dying to get in just needs to pony up the $700k for this and presto magico.

(btw, if you do now buy this, then please consider me as your copilot, not kidding !)

 

The RHD Daytona at Coys was from a private collection in Northern UK and had been unused for some time..bodily sound, but in need of mechanical attention,who knows how much that might cost????????

E

 

Top to bottom total mechanical restoration will cost 125-150K US dollars done properly.

 

'79 was an "off" year with an odd nose......but even they are getting hard to find in good condition.....

They fall into the "we tore them all up, when they were new" catagory....

But I would like to hear more, about your sister!

Several of us Chatters still have an old WS6 Trans Am around, for sentimental reasons...

 

..you know, we started our family in the back seat, out on East Beach....in the fog...

 

Hello,

Can somebody conform that ferrari 250gt s/n 0435gt( NO RESERVE) has diskbrakes with 15 inch GTE borranis? THANKS
copyright: Peter Singhof. (its the car with the lusso front bumper)

ciao
Cornelis
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Here are a few pictures from 2005. The under bonnet shot shows a booster as well.

Incidentally, that's not a Lusso bumper.

john
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Chassis and engine number.
COPYRIGHT MARCEL MASSINI
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I take it there was a colour change?

 

Yes, restored and repainted in 07. From re-sale red to silvergrey.
Marcel Massini

 

Thanks, John and Marcel fore this very fast answers ------PERFECT---
Fantastic Forum.


ciao
Cornelis

Will cost I think about 30000 euro to return to original. in org.parts

Well John, I thought it could be a lusso bumper looks almost the same ! (but you have one at Home)

 

The Lusso bumper is more boomerang looking. This could be the car's own bumper.

There are some other suspension pieces that are suspect to be unoriginal, but the biggest item will be the complete brake assembly. Aside from the cost, the inventory on the brakes must be getting slimmer. This car may have originally come with the six-vent drums, which are even rarer.

john