setting the record for the most ever spent on a car.
His collection also includes a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB, which just won best in class at the 2018 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, as well as a stable of other "prancing horses" including a 250 GT Lusso, 275 GTB, 365 GTB/4 "Daytona," F40, and F50.
This was a private sale, not an auction. The seller set the price, and I'd guess every other 1963 250 GTO Ferrari owner has just increased how much they are selling theirs for, by 10 million.
What makes this specific car worth 20 million more than any other?
It's never been wrecked for one thing. It's been raced a lot, but never crashed.
In its first two years it was raced by the famous Belgian teams Ecurie Francorchamps and Equipe National Belge – hence the yellow stripes on its silver bodywork.
This 250 GTO also finished fourth in the 1963 Le Mans 24-hours, driven by Pierre Dumay and Léon Dernier, and won the prestigious but tough ten-day Tour de France road race in the hands of Lucien Bianchi and Georges Berger in 1964. In 1964–’65 alone it competed in 14 events, including the Angolan Grand Prix in Africa.
It went on to be raced in Spain from 1966 to ’69 by owner/driver Eugenio Baturone.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ferrari-250-gto-1963-record-sale/index.html
https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht-w.html
I guess it's me Jesse, but there is something terribly obscene about this. 70 million. Really?!
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