Monterey Car Week 2021 is over, having survived the challenges of a covid pandemic that forced organisers to cancel most of last year’s events.
Carmakers keep telling us that sales of special new cars are booming because people have realised that they should enjoy life now, reasoning that you never know what the future might hold, and if this week’s auction results are anything to go by, that thinking holds for used cars, too.
These weren’t any old used cars though. We’ve ranked the 20 most expensive cars sold at auction during Monterey Car Week, and not a single one went for less than $3.3 million.
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Are you ready to feel completely financially inadequate? Here we go:
1961 Aston Martin DB4 GT
Sold for $3.305 m, Gooding & Company
2003 Ferrari Enzo
1968 Porsche 911 R
2014 Ferrari LaFerrari
2016 Ferrari F60 America
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4
1959 Aston Martin DB4 GT Lightweight
1953 Ferrari 166 MM Spider Series II
1930 Duesenberg Model J Convertible-Coupe
1995 Ferrari F50
1963 Shelby Cobra 289 Cobra Works
1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet
$4.405 m, Gooding & Company
1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 S-Type Supercharged
1929 Bugatti Type 35B Grand Prix
1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Tour De France
1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione By Scaglietti
1962 Ferrari 268 SP By Fantuzzi
1962 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
1959 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione
1995 McLaren F1
Sold for: $20.465 m, Gooding & Company
That’s the list of 20 most expensive confirmed sales, and it totals over $118 million. But it could have gone much higher.
Some key cars that were heavily hyped before the auctions didn’t sell, including a 1970 Porsche 917 K (est $16-18.5 m), a 1966 Ford GT40 (est $7-9 m), and 1998 Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR (est $8.5-10 m). If you’ve got the readies, they’re still available.