Classic Car Mart Spring 2016 15
YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT... £2.1m RM SOTHEBY’S
£37,514 ARTCURIAL
£5280 CHARTERHOUSE
ARTCURIAL CITROËN SALE, PARIS FEBRUARY 6
£12,420 SWVA
The day after selling a 1957 Ferrari 335/S with period Mille Miglia, Le
Mans and Sebring history for a new European record price of £25.84m,
Parisian Artcurial shifted 47 of 48 Citroëns, a 98 per cent sale rate, and
broke six more auction records for models of the French marque.
Topping the £1.14m results was a 11,367km from new in 1961 and
extremely dusty 2CV Sahara with an engine at each end driving all four
wheels that made £129,514. A 1980 Méhari 4x4 with desert paintjob and
only 1705km on the odometer also made a record £37,514, and a 1990
Charleston with the same 2CV6 engine made £28,582 (top estimate money).
Most of the Citroëns in this sale had been collected by Andre Trigano,
who drove his favourite, a 1939 Traction 11 B cabriolet, onto the stage
to applause and a £125,045 result, while a 1968 ID 21 Break sold for
£53,592 was another record breaker. The most unusual double Chevron
badged lots were a £46,446 1986 BX 4TC Group B rally car and a rare
1929 six-cylinder version of the military P19 Chenillette Kegresse half-
track, which fetched £26,796.
During this standing-room only gig, 48 or 79 per cent of the 61 cars
on the carpet sold to bidders from 24 countries for €18.99m (£14.63m),
seven of them costing new owners over one million euros apiece. A world
record was also claimed for the €134,400 (£103,488) result of a 1992
Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evo 1 in Martini colours. while a Saving Private
Ryan fan podded out €53,200 for a 1942 Willys MB Jeep complete with
hopefully deactivated pedestal mounted 50 calibre HB M2 machine gun.
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