The Official McLaren F1 Thread
#1312
The only recent public sale of any McLaren F1s was the Gulf GTR longtail at last year's Bonhams Monterey sale, but GTRs, especially the longtails, have always had a different market value, so that shouldn't be a factor in anyone's thinking. There was a report by Tom Hartley in the UK when he sold #059 in late 2012 that he had achieved more than £3.5M, but even at that time folks I speak with suggested he left money on the table with that car. Prior to that the last public sale was also at a Gooding auction in Monterey, but back in 2010 when #062 brought $3.575M and in those three years the chart of prices has been on a real upward swing.
The expectation was for this car at Gooding to hammer at more than $8.5M - it didn't, generating only a $7.7M hammer price then you add their buyer's premium of 10% to get to $8.47M. I think that was largely due to the mood in the room on a tough night. When the 14-louver Ferrari TdF that went several lots ahead of the F1 only achieved $8.6M about 20% of the people in attendance left. Most of the action that night was happening over at the RM auction (see their result for the NART Spider or the 1974 McLaren Indy winner) and Gooding's sale just didn't have the excitement I had come to expect. They still got a great headline with the result on the F1, and the final price has surprised a lot of people who aren't in-the-know, but it should by no means be considered the record price for one, unless you qualify that with 'in a public sale' or something similar.
>8^)
ER
Last edited by Peloton25; 08-20-2013 at 09:50 PM.
#1314
I don't really know what the prices are I was just remembering some of the information I have read in this thread. Thanks for all the knowledge and information. I can only imagine what prices you were speaking about that were more, or what they may come to be in the years to come.
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