Gianfranco47 Loc: Senoia GA

the above beautiful car , italian made, has been sold by Sotheby's for $ 26.400.000 here below you can find some photos of the car and the reference of the sale , your opinion is very welcome

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

That is crazy! It's still just an old car. All this crazyness over old supposedly collectable cars has ruined Hot Rodding, and old car restoration hobby. To even be willing to pay ONE MILLION for an old car is just plain stupid! Sorry! Just my opinion and I used to make my living in the automobile industry, and some of those cars have sold for over a million dollars, while some of their siblings sit in a junk yard or have already been crushed for scrap metal!

KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan

Nice car, but sadly, at that price it will probably never see the road again. It is just an expensive investment like a fine wine never tasted, just bought & sold by the very rich.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

As fine a Car as it was it is still Italian and my experiences with the older Italian cars have all been negative. I could see 2,600,000.

I went to Southebys site and learned that this car is one of three that were built and is the only one that was ever to come up for sale. Being very sought after and extremely rare I can understand the price, but it is still a Toni car.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Worth every penny of the twenty-six million dollars because it is a work of ART. A Picasso sold for $170 million. Why it's just a bunch of paint on fabric. Andreas Gursky "Rhein II sold for #3.4 million. Why, it's just a picture of a river.

I don't know anybody who owns a Ferrari 275 GTB, but I know several in Los Angeles who have private collections of some very valuable automobiles. And, you know what they do? They sit in their garage and look at them. Why? Because they are ART.

The photographs of the Ferrari are beautiful.

vetus pictorem

Well said rgrenader!!

Rare, makes everything worth more to most people. Adding irreplaceable, beautiful, and resellable at a profit pushes the price even higher. Seventy five years from now the first Tesla will likely be fetching $150,000,000.00. We little people have a hard time relating to rich people's hobbies. Many of them buy and sell yachts, villas, airplanes, horses and sports teams as pastimes. Also any object is only worth exactly what some fool will pay for it. The guy who bought it will enjoy it until the greater fool appears and buys it for more than twenty six million.

On another note. Most of the relatively sane collectable vehicles are hot rods, muscle cars, anything over 30 years old and any thing that can or was lovingly restored to better than new condition. Thats a pretty broad and incomplete definition of the relatively affordable collectable car market. There is a common denominator for this market. Most of these vehicles are owned by baby boomers. These owners are slowly realizing the market for their personal works of art and years of effort will have a very small market in the near future. This is because their children often do not want them (the cars) and most of the general public does not either. The number of new drivers is actually declining. Interest in new cars is fading and is predicted to continue. New car manufactures see this writing on the walls and are more than just concerned. Transportation is becoming a commodity and what you drive is less and less a concern to people. So enjoy them while you can.

By the way the pictures of the twenty six million dollar car are fantastic.

Thanks for your time.
Rick

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice car and nice sale for the previous owner. The new owner will hold it for a few years, hoping to sell it for even more. I was confused by your use of periods, rather than commas.

kodiac1062 Loc: Sarasota, Fl

I agree with Jerry. $26,400,000.00 is how it looks in the banking world.

Gianfranco47 Loc: Senoia GA

sorry Jerry, price is as you can read $ 26,400,000.00 (26 millions) .

ncshutterbug

It is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful, and if it were to be used on the road it would deteriorate to junk eventually. Can you imagine what that car will be worth 20 yr. from now if taken care of lovingly like it deserves?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Gorgeous. I love the shot of the engine and the half-dozen Weber IDAs. It did occur to me that it's unfortunate that the oil filter is mounted upside-down. I wonder how you change it without a deluge of dirty oil over that beautiful engine. On the other hand, this example probably has so rarely been driven that the oil may have never been changed 😀.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

Great pictures of a beautifully designed automobile.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

Nice photo. Did you take these?

SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

The styling of this car was far a head of its time and looks like a design that may be contemporary today.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Beautiful car, great pictures, not worth the price of admission to me, not even at one tenth the price.