Silverstone and RM Auctions May sale results

Bank Holiday bonanza at the auction houses, from £23K Ford Capri to £800K Fiat

Where did you spend the Bank Holiday? At home? In the pub? Well a few lucky devils were in the auction halls, spending a great deal of money on some fabulous cars. Both the Silverstone Auctions May sale and RM's Villa d'Este auction have been previewed on PH and with results now issued there's no better time to follow them up.

Not a million, still quite a lot though

'The £1m Fiat', a 1953 8V Cabriolet, was the big story on Lake Como. It eventually sold for 1,120,000 euros, or £790,000 at today's exchange rate. So not quite a million-pound Fiat, but certainly a huge chunk of cash.

Other highlights from that RM sale include the Ferrari 288 GTO that made 1,904,000 euros (£1.35m, not purchased by D. Trent), a manual 599 HGTE that sold for a fairly modest 358,400 euros (£250K) and that captivating 212 Export Barchetta; the hammer fell on that at 6,720,000 euros (!), or £4.76m...

Away from Ferrari, there was yet another big-ticket Porsche sale with a Lightweight 2.7 Carrera RS making more than a million euros (1,008,000, or £714,000). The Austin Healey 100S and BMW-Glas 300 V8 also mentioned in the story didn't sell.

£95-£105K estimate, sold for nearly £150K...

In the rather less glamorous surroundings of the Silverstone Wing there were a few more surprises. The £22K Capri actually made even more than that, the final figure an astonishing £23,625. The Mercedes 190E 2.3-16 with a £25-£35K estimate sold for £38,250 and the Kiwi Jag XJC made £34,875.

Yet again it's the Porsches grabbing all the headlines though. The 997 GT2 RS sold for £280K but, more amazingly, a 1975 Carrera 2.7 soared past its higher estimate of £110,000 to make £146,250. The Ferrari F512M with a £280-£330,000 guide didn't sell. Funny that.

See the full list of results from Silverstone here and RM here.

[Fiat pic: Tim Scott for RM]

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