Mercedes-Benz W196 Key Statistics:
Sold for: $29.7 million
Auctioneer: Bonham’s
Location: Chichester, U.K. (July, 2013)
Ferrari 250 GTO Key Statistics:
Sold For: $38 million
Auctioneer: Bonham’s
Location: California (August, 2014)
Vintage and classic cars are now more popular than ever. With huge celebrities such as Jay Leno and Chris Evans being proud owners of an entire garage of classics (Chris Evans even started classic car day this year), classic cars are now in the public eye more than they ever were before.
This helps partially explain why these two cars have sold for astronomical sums. In fact, their sales are not in isolation and they’re part of a wider trend in motoring which has seen classic car sales at auctions pass $1 billion in a year for the first time ever in 2013.