(Bits&Pieces.us)
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
The King Of This Aucition Block In Monterey This Year Is
1956 Aston Martin DBR1/1 sells for record-breaking $22.6 million
MONTEREY, Calif. - There's a new car on the podium. RM Sotheby's auctioned the 1956 Aston Martin DBR1 race car, chassis no. 1, for $22,550,000. That makes it the most-expensive British car ever sold at auction, according to Sotheby's, let alone the most-expensive Aston Martin. It surpasses the previous high, set least year, by a 1955 JaguarD-Type that went for $21.8 million.
DBR1/1 is the only one of the five cars to ever be offered for public sale. There were a number of other Aston Martin race cars at auction this year, including a 1959 DB4GT Prototypde that went for $6,765,000.
(AutoBlog.com)
MONTEREY, Calif. - There's a new car on the podium. RM Sotheby's auctioned the 1956 Aston Martin DBR1 race car, chassis no. 1, for $22,550,000. That makes it the most-expensive British car ever sold at auction, according to Sotheby's, let alone the most-expensive Aston Martin. It surpasses the previous high, set least year, by a 1955 JaguarD-Type that went for $21.8 million.
DBR1/1 is the only one of the five cars to ever be offered for public sale. There were a number of other Aston Martin race cars at auction this year, including a 1959 DB4GT Prototypde that went for $6,765,000.
(AutoBlog.com)
It Costs How Much?
Exhaust Porn: Japan’s First $30K VB55 System
[A] super limited edition exhaust system that legendary Lamborghini test driver Valentino Balboni was putting his name to. Only 30 ‘VB55′ systems were to be made, all hand built, and exclusively for the Super Veloce (SV) version of the Aventador.
(SpeedHunters.com)
[A] super limited edition exhaust system that legendary Lamborghini test driver Valentino Balboni was putting his name to. Only 30 ‘VB55′ systems were to be made, all hand built, and exclusively for the Super Veloce (SV) version of the Aventador.
(SpeedHunters.com)
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