The Blue 246GT sold last night for 107,000
that was one of the tonkin dino's if i am not mistaken. it looked like a nice "driver". did you see the car?
I thought they were all meant to be driven, but in any case it seemed a nice car from the second row, showed well, but I did not see the engine compartment, there is another one at RM tonight and others at other houses.
still puts it in the $120k range. tonkin had tehse cars advertised about a year ago asking much more. frankly, unless there was something wrong with the car, i am surprised to see it sell that cheap
I just got back from Monterey and will try to post some photos of the car tomorrow evening. In a nutshell: paint crazing, past front end damage, carpet grossly faded and stained, engine bay miserable.
Assuming you are talking about Lot # 246, according to the RM Results page, it sold for $118,250 (presumably including the "tip"). If that car is in fact the Ron Tonkin blue dino, RT was asking over $140,000 last year. (I think they wanted $144,000 to be more precise). I was interested in it, but the car needed a fair amount of work and I told them it was too much. Without naming names, my contacts at RT agreed, but said that RT had himself priced the car and had decided to take it to RM for auction if they couldn't get what he wanted for it, and the results suggest he wanted too much for it. RT had a yellow 246GT at the same time that they also wanted $144,000 for. I note that RM had 2 yellow Dinos, but I can't tell if one of them was RT's.
Just back, most of my time was with the Admiral's Mondail (won best of class and Marque) no matter what you read, if you were there it was palatable: the bloom was off, the auctioneers drug the numbers out of the crowd on the ordinary cars, there were few buyers, most cars were at or below low estimate, while the big and rare stuff remained strong, road cars with thousands made, at least for this weekend, turned the corner.
There's a nice one on the market in Vintage now, Uro.... Last auction I sat thru (Keels and Wheels) had a similar feel but international funds were sniping some good deals.....
Russia is kind of busy...LOL! And there's some stock price shake up in their steel industry too......they sure have been ordering a lot of luxury boats.....heck one guys' ex-wife made the top 100 with the one she got leaving him!
The buyer pays this hammer fee, right? If so, then it does accurately depict the price of the car... it's what you pay for it. The two Sat 246gt couples went for $143,000 and $154,000, having just checked the auction results.
Sorry, I was responding to the Doctor's comment on the 33OGTC.... Wasn't a Dino, or you'd have bought it...
The car looked shiny from a distance. here are 3 photos that reflect how it was when viewed closer up. I'm very surprised that any dealer would try to sell a car this emotionally repellent. Wouldn't you at least paint the nasty-looking items and put in new carpeting if you were selling it? Yes, the carpet really was that stained and faded-- it's not just reflections. Wouldn't one have to assume the car was just as uncared for in the mechanical bits? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The most interesting thing about this to me is that an experienced dealer did not feel it would be worth replacing that awful looking carpeting. If one were trying to sell a daily driver to an average person one would fix / replace inexpensive items to make the car more attractive to a buyer. Apparently Ron Tonkin didn't feel the expense of carpet replacement or even treating the canister in the engine bay to a can of Rust-Oleum could be justified in this case. Which means that nothing is worth doing, apparently. Jim
