Important Ferrari’s On The Block This Week In Monterey
A Y 1961 red convertible Ferrari California Spider (pictured above) could fetch as much as $18-M at auction this week, the top lot among 78 Ferraris that are up for sale.
Gooding & Company is offering the Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, 1 of only 37 built, during the classic car annual event held on the Monterey Peninsula and at the Pebble Beach golf course.
RM Sotheby’s (NYSE:BID) will auction a yellow 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione for more than $17-M. It is one of about 45 of its kind, RM Sotheby’s says.
“It’s nearly impossible to find a better example in the world right now,” Alain Squindo, Vice President at RM Sotheby’s, said by phone Tuesday.
The yellow Ferrari and an orange 1998 McLaren F1 sports car, estimated at more than $12-M, are part of private collection of 25 cars that includes 10 Ferraris, 2 Lamborghinis and 2 Bugattis that will be auctioned by RM Sotheby’s.
The seller is an unidentified private collector based in Florida.
The sale is expected to total more than $80-M, which would be the highest ever for a private collection sold during a 1-day car auction. Bonhams set the record last year for the category at $66-M.
Also included in this sale is a 2005 Ferrari Enzo the factory built as a gift to Pope John Paul II, estimated at $4-6-M. It’s the 400th and last one built, according to RM Sotheby’s. The Pope asked for it to be sold to benefit victims of the Y 2004 Tsunami. Ferrari auctioned the car after Pope John Paul II died and presented Pope Bendict XVI with the check.
Another notable car coming to auction is a 1956 Fiat Eden Roc created for Gianni Agnelli, who became the Fiat chairman in Y 1966 and who wanted a car to take guests from his estate in
Nice, France, to the beach. The open air Eden Roc looks like a cross between a Volkswagen van and a road-ready motorboat. Gooding has a estimate of $250,000.
“It’s an example of a really unusual item that never comes up for auction,” said David Gooding, president and founder of Gooding.
Bonhams will offer a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Competizione Alloy Berlinetta, a sports car that placed 3rd overall at the 1959 Tour de France car race with an estimate of $9 – 12-M.
The auction house will also sell a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO with a high estimate of $3-M and a 1953 Fiat 8V Supersonic for as much as $2.4-M that’s had the same owner since Y 1979.
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