Highlights from the 2015 Bonhams Aston Martin Works classic car sale included £1.5 million for the 1962 DB4 Vantage Convertible of Sir Peter Ustinov. However, a 1966 Aston Martin DB5 Convertible in ‘Vantage’ specification achieved the top result of £1,524,700. A further 1962 Aston Martin DB4 4.0-Litre Series IV Convertible also sold for more than … Read more
Sir Stirling Moss’s 1961 Porsche RS-61 Sports racing car will he one of the highlights of the 2015 Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed classic car auction. The car achieved 13 victories and 20 podium placings in SCCA National Competition in the USA but the car on offer was only raced by Stirling Moss in historic … Read more
Bonhams sold an ex-Royal Mews Traveling Landau for $376,000 at its first ever Carriage Collection Sale in Oxford on March 7, 2015. Bonhams Private European Collection of Victorian Carriages and Coaches had a white glove result with a 100% sell-through rate achieving a total £1,147,765. The top result, the ex-Royal British Mews Landau commission by … Read more
A 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB Alloy-bodied Berlinetta is to star in Bonhams New Bond Street auction on November 30, 2014 in London. In the final major classic car sale of the year, only 35 cars will be on offer, of which several are estimated to clear the million-dollar mark, including a 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C … Read more
New world records were set for 1930s sports racing Lagonda and OM cars at the 2014 Bonhams Goodwood Revival classic car auction. Two further cars sold for over a million dollars each: the almost obligatory Mercedes Benz 300 SL and a Ferrari F40. For once, a Ferrari was not topping the results despite 17 Ferraris … Read more
The top result at the RM Auctions London 2014 sale was $8 million for a 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione ‘Tour de France’ by Scaglietti. Seven cars sold for over a million dollar each. RM Auctions’ 2014 London Sale was held in conjunction with the Hampton Court Concours of Elegance on September 8, 2014. … Read more
A 1954 Ferrari 375-Plus sold for over $18 million as the most-expensive car sold thus far this year at public auction and most-expensive Ferrari racing car ever. The 2014 Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed for the second year running saw the highest price paid for a car at public auction thus far in the year. … Read more
The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R Formula 1 racing car driven by Fangio sold for $30 million by Bonhams Auctions at Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale 2013 as the most expensive car ever sold in a public auction. → A 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R with streamliner bodywork sold for €51,155,000 ($53,917,370) at a special RM Sotheby’s auction at … Read more
Bonhams sold the ex-Tazio Nuvolari 1935 Alfa Romeo Tipo C 8C-35 ‘50013’ – Scuderia Ferrari at Goodwood for £5,937,500. At the Goodwood Revival, British auction house Bonhams sold a 1935 Alfa Romeo that once belonged to the Ferrari team for £5,937,500 (US$9,427,600). This was the highest price ever achieved at auction for an Alfa Romero … Read more