Fellow Listers,
I just returned from my yearly trip to Monterey to help my buddy (
http://www.classicshowcase.com/) sell cars. We brought 19 and sold 13
making money on all of them. RM was the best with 6 of 7 cars sold. Our
own 1967 911S soft top Targa was parked next to the the Steve McQueen '67
911S for two days, and people all day long were telling me that I was crazy
in thinking that it would bring over a million dollars... well I have one
free dinner out of that bet. BTW ours sold with a hammer price of $165K
with the buyers commission which I believe is 10%.
I was there at Christie's Auction in Monterey several years ago when the
McQueen Ferrari Luso sold for double it's high estimate. However his 911S
was TEN TIMES what and equal car would have sold for, so this Steve McQueen
connection is getting ridiculous.
Bonham's had a very nice MkII Sprite for sale with a $10-15K estimate (you
couldn't build it for that price). There was also a totally original,
period Bugeye race car at the very prestigious Concours D'Elegance at the
Quail Lodge. I had a very nice talk with the owner and have pictures is
anyone is interested.
Big Healey wise, good friends Kurt Tanner, and Tom Rocke also had very nice
Healeys at the RM Auction a Phase one BJ8 ($70K) and a BN7 two seat tri-carb
($112.5K) respectively. There were at least two former Kurt Tanner BJ8's
and two 100s at Russo Steele, another beautiful Tanner Black w/ red interior
BJ8 at Gooding, and finally several OK big Healeys at Mecum and Bonham's.
Pebble Beach Concours was awesome as usual, and there was a nice Swallow
Doretti there plus there were no less than four of one of my favorite cars,
the 1953 Siata 208S at Monterey this past week, two red ones a silver and a
black, AND one owned by Steve McQueen... go figure.
Fun week but I'm exhausted.
Cheers,
Curt
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Edward Perez <eap2140 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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