1976 Ferrari 308 GTB Vetroresina | Gooding & Company SOLD hammer price $325K + 10% $357.500 ~ 300K€ WOW
Congratulations to both the seller and buyer ! Good thing I listened to Rocco and bought a glass car on his advice. Champagne popping tonight for me
Time to give the insurance company a quick call too? This is getting serious now! Any Vetro will instantly be taken off the market..or raised by a large chunk of $$$.Wow indeed.
$357,500, must be a world record for a Vetro! Well done to the seller and buyer and roma1280 who commissioned the restoration work in the first place. With the exchange rates as they are at the moment it takes it to just over £250,000 in the UK, a fantastic price!
It belongs to a couple who live here in the Hunter Valley. Owners for 16 years & are also members of our CIAO Club ( Combined Italian Auto Org.). Newcastle Italian Film Festival 2015 & 2012. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I was at the auction and it was a very nice car but wow I was very surprised with the price but congrats to both the buyer and the seller the buyer got a very nice car
Thank you. I think I did my duty bringing back that piece of Ferrari history and the car was good enough to set a world record (I think) which benefits all VR owners. I would have done this even if I didn't have 3 more unrestored VRs in a garage.
Wrong screwdriver?? (Maybe) wrong wrenches???... Man, they should have sent it straight to the crusher instead of the auction.😜
Sarcasm I would assume. There are so many threads and comments around ensuring that you have the right accessories, tools included, then a record sale for a car that doesn't have it 100% correct I believe was the point.
Well exactly. I mean if they cut corners and replaced tools etc with non original stuff, what's to say other parts of the car haven't had similar treatment. It's not as if you can't find the correct tools. You just have to pay the correct market price for them. If you're skimping here on a "concours" resto well.....it makes no sense to me at least.
I think you're being a little picky here, the car sold for a record price as it stood, who's to say it wouldn't have gone higher if it had the right no 8 spanner or whatever it is you're talking about. I'm sure whoever bought it did their due diligence and paid his price accordingly, as for "skimping on a concours restoration", where do you get that from? There is no mention of 'concours' in the auction blurb, the only talk was of restoration work totaling 57,000 which in my book is about half what a 'concours' restoration would cost. Seems to me it had a good going through and refresh to make it a great drivers car. I don't think anyone ever claimed it to be concours.
Fair enough. My mistake I guess in suggesting it was concours. Nonetheless. This is as far as I know a record price for a Vetro, so I am sure the car if not concours would have been in at least excellent condition and I don't know if you can call it just a great "drivers"car as you suggest. I think 57k Euros is probably a bit more than just getting it into a "drivers" condition. So again to my point which I stand by, why skimp on a relatively small point, like the tools if your presenting a great car? Mike, you yourself has in the past has criticized cars up for sale with wrong this, wrong that, right? Again clearly not that it hindered of course the bidding. But still, just my own opinion of how I assess things which I am entitled to that's all. We'll see in the future if other Vetros follow suit. Interesting. Certainly there are currently quite a few RHD ones that have been sitting around for quite while at substantially lower values than the car at the auction.
The only things I pick up on are when it's the car itself that looks wrong, ie 16" wheels, deep spoiler, dual exhaust and so on, all wrong for the Vetro. Which pretty much sums up in one way or another the cheaper rhd cars on the UK market at the moment!
Even so, still a huge gap to the 357k of the auction car with plenty of cushion built into the prices to make the cars right accordingly and then some......
Hi Stradman, I have a feeling the UK ones are way less than perfect (one of them i have seen personally that is currently up at c.£160k), and are therefore priced correctly. I am also fairly sure we will see the 4 or 5 on the UK market currently, either hiked up in price ,or put on as POA ..... thats the usual course of events in my experience. If it is just minor cosmetics holding these back as Mike suggests, then anyone wanting a Vetro would be wise to snap such a car up before they move out of reach..... I witnessed the exact same course of events with the 206/246 Dino market 3-4 Years ago and have a strong feeling that the same thing is starting to happen with these early 308 GTB's BR, Jez
Offered at Retro Mobile in Paris 308 Vetro with more then 100t KM - Asking is Eur 309.000! Any questions? Image Unavailable, Please Login
