• bigcee42@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t this cheap for a 250 GTO?

    $50 million had been the going rate for many years now and $70 million was hit a while ago.

    • SeacoastFirearms@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      The $70m car was a 1 of 1 with racing pedigree.

      The last “normal” gto sold for $48m in 2018, which means the gto’s are actually depreciating if this one sold for $51m

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      1 year ago

      It’s not a 250 GTO. It’s a 330 LM that later had a GTO motor fitted. It is not one of the original 36 ‘true’ 250 GTOs.

      So yes, it is cheap for a 250 GTO, because it kind of isn’t one

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        1 year ago

        Dang, I was wondering why it went so “low”, I thought it was going for over $100mm easily. It was getting hyped up like crazy, had its own auction, was getting posted about constantly, nicknamed “The One”. Apparently I missed the fact that it’s an engine swap, or they didn’t report it as heavily as all the other attention grabbing stuff lol Explains the unexpected result, I suppose

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    1 year ago

    I’m so annoyed. This car is in my town and a doctor car group I’m in got the invite to see the car, I skipped the meet that day for kids soccer. It was totally happenstance, friend of a friend of a friend nice day come over never to be duplicated kinda thing

  • No_Season_354@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    No car is worth that, it’s the marketplace doing that, what some rich person who can afford it , granted it’s a nice car but geeze, that money could help a lot of people who are struggling.

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    1 year ago

    Damn I mean if you got the money cool, but imagine running a bunch of little sweep stakes

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    1 year ago

    I feel so fortunate that I got to see six of these things running around Laguna Seca one year. I remember being behind the wall at the exit of turn 2 and hearing and seeing these things roar around the corner. Was very cool.

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    1 year ago

    Saw one of these in Èze (between Nice and Monaco) being loaded into a truck. Yelled out to the group I was with to turn around and look, no one else cared lol easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t believe that there’s only like 1000 billionaires or something. There’s too many ultra wealthy people able to just drop 50million on a car

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      1 year ago

      What a shitty society we’ve built for ourselves where a few hairless apes can spend 25 lifetimes of wealth on a single thing with 4 wheels just for shits and giggles while the majority wonder if they’ll even be able to retire before Alzheimer’s gets them

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          1 year ago

          better plan would be build cash flowing assets (ie businesses) and use the cashflow to help people. would do much more good in the long term.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, the Ferrari 240 is the best example of the value being in “go buy another one”. Well you can’t, doesn’t matter how much money you have, they simply don’t go up for sale that often.

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    1 year ago

    I live close to Sotheby’s in NYC where it was sold. It has been in their lobby for a few weeks it was stunning to see in person . It also went far below their estimate of $60m

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    1 year ago

    What makes me sad is you already know all this car I’d gonna do is sit in a garage not driven. It’s heartbreaking honestly. Cars are meant to be driven