14 Classic Car Mart Spring 2016
SWVA, POOLE JANUARY 29 RM SOTHEBY’S, PARIS FEBRUARY 3
BONHAMS, PARIS FEBRUARY 4
A claimed to be still original Ford Sierra RS Cosworth with 22,
warranted mileage from new in 1986 was driven past the SWVA rostrum in
Dorset to sell for £45,360, nearly £10,000 more than had been forecast.
A previously repainted Bristol 403 with patinated interior had come to
auction from the Irish Republic to make £42,120 and the same money,
more than double the lower estimate fi gure, was available for a 1960 MkI
Austin-Healey 3000 ‘running project’ on Webers with its hard-top and many
panels in aluminum, but without documents.
Most impressively, after another well attended drive-through, during
which 94 per cent of the 69 vehicle entry sold and only four cars failed to
attract buyers, 64 cars and a Rickman Metisse motorcycle had sold for
£446,128 with premium.
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A Sebring raced 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder realised a within forecast
€2,744,000 (£2.11m) to be the evening’s top seller under the hammer.
Although another star lot, a 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica LWB, which
came very close to its reserve price ‘live’, was sold immediately after
the sale for €2,950,000 (£2.27m). A 2004 Enzo, comprehensively
totaled in Malibu and totally reconstructed from new Ferrari parts in
Italy, still made €1,568,000 (£1.21m).
Within the vast and historic
Grand Palais in the supposedly
romantic city of Paris, the venue
of the very fi rst Motor Show back
in 1901, Bonhams sold a long-
nosed 1966 Ferrari 275GTB/2 to
a Parisian bidder for €609,
(£1,593,900). Other main market
Ferrari valuations were €451,
(£347,784) for a 2002 550
Barchetta, €425,500 (£327,635)
for a 2010 599 GTO, €333,
(£256,795) for a 2005 575
Superamerica and €345,
(£265,650) for a 2002 575M
Maranello coupé.
British classic results included a
1961 Aston Martin DB4 Series IV
sold for €609,500 (£469,315) and
a 1964 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III
cabriolet for €425,000 (£327,635).
A 1991 XJ220, the 28th of
the supercar batch that were
depreciatingly slow to shift when
new, found €299,000 (£230,230).
By sale end, and before any post-
sales, 77 or 59 per cent of the 131
cars in the catalogue had sold for
€12.58m euros (£9.68m).