Iso Grifo A3/C stradale 1965 sold at RM Auction for 1036k euros.
Story and photos by Alessandro Gerelli
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All prices are in Euros: This week the U.S. Dollar equals .88 Euro, and 1 Euro equals .74 British Pound Sterling
During the first three days of the Retromobile, three auctions were held in Paris by Artcurial, Bonhams and RM, all held at different locations, causing one to travel from one to another.
However, all three auctions were big successes with only few lots unsold, and many cars sold at the maximum or over the estimated values.
The high point was the Artcurial with the Baillon Collection with all the cars sold; a Maserati A6G 2000 by Frua sold at 2010k euros and, incredibly, a Ferrari 250 GT SWB California (#2935) ex Alain Delon sold at 16288000 euros (all included) against an estimation of 9.5 to 12 million euros.
The Iso and Bizzarini sold with very good results, with a couple of cars going over million euros.
At the Bonhams auction, a few Abarth cars coming from the Violati Maranello Rosso collection will be of great interest to VeloceToday readers – please note the prices!
Of course at the Retromobile itself, there were many cars on show at the various stands of dealers and clubs, but I limited the photo gallery to few cars of the Lopresto collection which were shown for the first time in Paris.
We begin with the Abarths…
Abarth Osella PA1 Sport Prototipo 1973 (Maranello Rosso collection) sold at Bonhams for 110k euros.
Abarth Simca 1300 GT long nose 1965 (Maranello Rosso collection) sold at Bonhams auction for 129k euros.