A 1972 Maserati Boomerang Coupé design study by Giugiaro sold for $3,666,800 at the 2015 Bonhams classic car auction at the Chantilly Concours d’Elegance. Bonhams 2015 Chantilly Concours d’Elegance Sale Bonhams hosted its first classic car auction at the Arts & Elegance event in the grounds of the Château de Chantilly on September 5, 2015. … Read more
Bonhams will sell 48 cars, including 13 Rolls Royces, from the Frederiksen Collection at a classic car auction in Denmark on September 26, 2015. The single-owner collection includes the best of British, European and American motoring with most cars from the pre-War period and several manufactured before the First World War. The sale will feature … Read more
A 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione ‘Tour de France’ sold for £4,760,000 as the top result at the 2015 RM Sotheby’s London classic car auction. Four cars sold for over a million dollars at the London sale: 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione ‘Tour de France’ for $7,392,520, a 1964 Ferrari 250 GT/L Berlinetta … Read more
The 2015 Bonhams Festival of Speed classic car auction will offer the very first Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster ever built, estimate over $2 million. The car was the most expensive production vehicle on offer in the world when offered for $1.5 million in 1998. Mercedes Benz built only 25 CLK GTRs of which only six … Read more
A 1990-93 Porsche Type 962 C Endurance Racing Competition Coupe, sold for €1,495,000 at the Spa Sale – the highest online bid ever at a Bonhams auction. This Ex-Jürgen Oppermann/Otto Altenbach/Loris Kessel Obermaier Racing Porsche was also the top result at the Bonhams classic car auction in Belgium. The sale included several further Porsches and … Read more
A 1952 Ferrari 212 Export Barchetta set a new model auction result when selling for €6.7 million at the 2015 RM Sotheby’s Villa Erba classic car sale in Italy. Eleven cars sold for more than a million dollars including seven Ferraris but the two headline cars failed to clear the reserve margins: the 1960 Ferrari … Read more
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
Two Ferrari 250 GTs headline the RM Sotheby’s classic car auction at Villa Erba during the 2015 Villa d’Este Concorse d’Eleganza on Lake Como in Italy: a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione by Scaglietti (Estimate: Available Upon Request) and a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider by Scaglietti (est. €11,000,000 – €13,000,000). … Read more
Six cars sold for more than a million dollar at the Bonhams 2015 Mercedes Benz Museum classic car auction in Stuttgart. Top result was 1938 Mercedes Benz 540 K Cabriolet A sold for €2,760,000 while four 300 SLs sold for over a million dollar each. 2015 Bonhams The Mercedes Benz Sale Bonhams held its second … Read more
Bonhams will return in March 2015 for the second time to Stuttgart for a single-marque classic car auction at the Mercedes Benz Museum. Around 40 Mercedes Benz classic cars will be on sale with the stars of the show expected to be two 1930s cabriolet: a 1931 Mercedes Benz 770 K and a 1938 Mercedes … 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