What a collection.

[sleeper]

Has any car really sold for $17 million?

 

[Black1]

Jake- I think the GT-40 with the original paint was the $17 mil. car.

"Next up was the Ferrari 250 GTO. This car is considered among the most beautiful (and it is the most expensive) cars ever made. The paint job was getting older and needed some love, and I found it a complete honor to work on a car whose value is over 17 million dollars."

:dontknow:

Has any car really sold for $17 million?

The record for a Ferrari is $9.3Million and it wasn't a GTO, it was a '62 Testa Rossa sold at RM Auctions in 2007.

The Highest gavel drop that I could find was a '31 Bugatti Royale that sold for $9.8Million in 1987. :dontknow:

 

[Kevan]

Sorry Jake.
Once I closed the thread, I didn't feel like re-opening it only to have hundreds of 4MB, 3096 x 2048 pics try to load. Call me impatient.

Maybe the guy forgot the decimal?

 

[davo19]

i'm speechless...

 

[FATJACK]

Good God what a collection, and only 1 Mopar, a viper.

 

[faslane505]

WOW!!!!!!!

 

[Silverback]

Good God what a collection, and only 1 Mopar, a viper.

Look at some of the pictures better. There are a few hiding in the back.

 

[FSTJACK]

Dammmmm Jack, you know you could have had that entire collection in the time it has taken to put that silver truck together, not counting the big bucks you have spent - Merry Fricken Christmas, Jack-o

Merry Ho Ho, Jerry.

Thangs like the collection John posted are but fantisies for guys like me.

When I had the Carb and FI shop I had a customer in Rancho Santa Fe that had an extensive collection of Ferrari's, Masserati's, Lambos, and a few American muxcle cars. American was 427 SC Cobra, 67 KR Mustang, 67 435-427 Corvette roadster. And a few others.

The owner had them in climate controlled garages that were converted from stables. The old Bing Crosby estate (Osuna Ranch).

He had a full time man working on, maintaining and restoring Ferrari's. This man and I hit it off pretty good, and he knew nothing about american muscle cars.
Once a month on Saturday morning I would drive to Rancho and we would take out the entire fleet of american cars. I got to drive them all (as fast as I dared). These cars were all low mileage, and pristine.
The next weekend we would take the european exotics out with him driving. He was aslo a pretty good race car driver. I was scared many times as I thought that 140 on the back stretch of Whispering Palms (now Morgan Run) golf corse was a little fast.

This was a great experiance and a ton o fun.

A few years later he divested of the american cars. He offered me the 67 Corvette roadster 427-435 matching#'s with 23000 miles on it fo 35K and I was not in a position to buy it at the time. It was a perfect car at the time, I wanted it so much but we were trying to move and buy a house.

He is now in La Jolla with a gigantic climate controlled garage/showroom under his estate for the Ferrari's.

That is as close as I will ever get to something like a car collection.