Monterey Car Week is an auction venue like no other on the planet. Six major auctions occur during 72 hours, all within a few miles of each other, with a third of a billion dollars in sales. Here are the top 200 cars which caught our eye during the Monterey sales.
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A new world record for a car at auction was set this evening when a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for $48,405,000, breaking the existing record of $38.115 million set in 2014 for a 1962/1963 Ferrari 250 GTO.
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The Ferrari 250 GTO is the "Holy Grail" for car collectors. All 39 made still exist, and owning one of these exquisite V12 road-registerable racing cars is the ultimate badge of success. With recent unconfirmed private sales of $52M and $70 M, the stage is set for a showdown in Monterey.
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Many great cars have been built across the world in the last 120 years, but the Duesenberg SSJ going to auction with Gooding & Company on August 25, 2018, is arguably the most important road car produced by the American auto industry which dominated the century of the automobile.
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One of the most significant cars in history will sell at Monterey this week, and it isn't the Ferrari 250 GTO. This Ferrari 275P won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, was the first mid-engined car to win, and twice set record distances for the event.
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There are many elite automobile auctions in Europe each year, but few compare with Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale. This year saw some exceptional cars and some remarkable bargains. We've picked out the very best on offer at Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale.
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The Volkswagen Beetle continues to defy the laws of economics, becoming one of the hottest collector car investments at the same time as being the most plentiful. Though the collector car market has cooled, 36 of the 50 most valuable Beetles have been sold in the last three years.
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The world's most valuable Volkswagen Beetle that starred in 'Herbie goes to Monte Carlo' and 'Herbie goes to Bananas' went to auction again on Saturday. In 2015 it sold for $126,000 and on April 14, 2018, it sold for $128,700 to become the world's most valuable Volkswagen Beetle for a second time.
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The 21-window Volkswagen Samba bus from the popular television sitcom That 70s Show (1998 to 2006) is heading for auction at Barrett-Jackson's Palm Beach Auction on Saturday, April 14, 2018 and the world record for a Volkswagen at auction might well fall.
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There's something about a "barn find" that tickles the public's imagination. So it was exciting to find not one, but three, or maybe even four, million dollar barnfinds" are going to auction this week, and one of them is the barnfind made famous by Tom Cotter's book, The Cobra in the Barn.
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