Live auction from Retromobile at 1.30 today

[rswift]

I seem to remember wasting an afternoon watching this last year !

I went to the show yesterday, the auction stock isn't quite as interesting as the massive collection of "wrecks" from last year, but worth sticking on in the background if you're interested.

There was a very large Citroen collection, and a mixed lot including several "Modern Classics" in the Buggati/Ferrari type price sector.

http://www.artcurial.com/live-retromobile-2016.asp

[Willhire89]

Just started watching this - how the hell do they sell anything????

Three 'auctioneers' all taking over each other - they just knocked one car down and the top bidder withdrew and post hammer they re-offered it to the underbidder.

It is a total mess

[Bob CD]

I thought there were four of them going at once, not three! There have been several 'interruptions' from people who thought they'd bought something and discovered they hadn't. As you say, total chaos but they're actually getting better prices than at the other two auctions over the last couple of days. They got €28 million for the 1957 Ferrari! And they got double the €200,000 estimate for an immaculate Alfa Romeo GTA. What's more, it's still going and they've got loads more cars to sell although they seem to have speeded up now. Even so, it's going to be a long evening; I wouldn't want to own the last car to be sold.

[Willhire89]

They are certainly selling well and the majority - so much for a lull.

I missed the Ferrari but the 1750 Alfa at £1M is going well

Just shows how much the multilingual RM guy can achieve on his own - he never carries on talking forgetting he is on mic.....

[v8250]

This is typical Artcurial. Have attended a number of their auctions over the years and they're always crap. Poorly organized and even more poorly executed with far too many bods involved with the actual auctioneering; they're a typically over-managed French structure. What's worse is the atmosphere...it's always so thoroughly boring without any excitement, no real va-va-voom.

[theadman]

Faulty Towers of the auction world! Well worth a look!

However, there are a lot of people anxious to get rid of huge sums of money given the prices being realised at the moment.

Some really good lots going through right now.

[MikeyC]

yeah, was pretty shambolic !

was surprised how much an apparantly standard Ferrari California went for - approx eu300K IIRC - appears to be a rare manual version tho'

Looks like they set a new record