RM/Sotheby's Petersen Auto Museum Auction 2018 - Americans with a taste for the extraordinary
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Created on December 10, 2018
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Bruno von Rotz
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For the first time, RM/Sotheby's held an auction at the Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles on December 8, 2018. 68 cars and motorcycles were selected, with a total value of almost USD 48 million. In the end, 79% of the vehicles were sold at an average price of USD 727,290. However, the 1956 Ferrari 290 MM, which found a new owner for USD 22 million, played a major role in this. But the bidders also demonstrated a taste for the extraordinary in other respects. This auction report analyzes the results and shows all the vehicles in pictures.
This article contains the following chapters
- Almost as expensive as a GTO - Ferrari 290 MM
- Ferrari, Porsche and other
- Small exotics
- Bidding battles for small motorcycles
- Custom cars with mixed success
- Super classics with more than solid results
- Little for the small purse
Estimated reading time: 5min
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For the first time, RM/Sotheby's held an auction at the Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles on December 8, 2018. The new auction is intended to be a counterpart to the New York auction held every other year. 68 vehicles, including some motorcycles and automobilia, went under the hammer, with the total value of the vehicles estimated at USD 47.5 million. In the end, USD 39.3 million including surcharge/commission was raised, although around a fifth of the vehicles could not be sold, so the auction can already be considered established. The highlight of the auction was certainly the final lot Ferrari 290 MM from 1956. Some of the most famous racing drivers of all time sat behind the wheel of this factory racing car with chassis number 0628, including Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Alfonso de Portago, Phil Hill and Wolfgang Von Trips.
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