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News from the saleroom: day one of Gooding's Pebble Beach Auction

News from the saleroom: day one of Gooding's Pebble Beach Auction 16th August 2015

Commencing at $8m, Charlie Ross took incremental $1m bids on the Bertone-bodied Ferrari 250 GT SWB to $13m, when he declared he “was selling the car.” Further bidding pushed this to a final hammer price midway between its $14m - $16m estimate, $15m. That’s $16.5m with premium.

We, together with many experts, were sceptical as to whether the pre-sale estimate was attainable, so hats off to David Gooding’s team. They simply have to do it again tomorrow night with the SWB Cal’ Spider…


I think we can say its was a typical topsy-turvy Monterey 2015 sale, with some strong prices ($599.5k gross for a 1995 Ferrari F512 M – it was a nice colour, if that’s any explanation) while the rare ‘notchback Aston DB2/4 Mk II FHC was a steal at $286k, particularly considering RM’s stellar ($1,072,500) Aston DB Mk III Convertible the night before.

The 1965 Ferrari Superfast ended up a fair way off its $3m lower estimate: a hammer of $2.75m, so $3.03m with premium.



Strong prices were achieved by the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTC/4 (over $550k), the 1934 Rolls Phantom II Sedanca ($1,650,00 gross) and the Le Mans-winning Porsche 956, which broke the chequer at $10,120,000 all in.

Gooding’s McLaren P1 sold for $1.93m with premium. Bargain of the night was the slightly blowsy 1949 Bentley Mk VI Sedanca Coupé (above) that was in danger of going for under $100k but just crept over the line at $126.5k.