Silverstone Classic Auction RS500

[What The Deuces]

Holy crap

£530k plus fees

I repeat….Holy crap


This was the car https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/news/immaculat...

[TIGA84]

Just seen, £596,250 with fees.

I just don’t understand why. Previous record was £135k.

Why would you pay 600 grand for a Sierra?

[Doofus]

TIGA84 said:

Why would you pay 600 grand for a Sierra?

Because they think they've new set the new market rate for Cosworths, and they already have another couple in the garage?

[MDMA .]

Someone’s not going to be happy. I was there. It’s rough.

fking mugs.

[Escort3500]

[200Plus Club]

Watched it live, ridiculous.
Lotus elan also sold for 150 grand, ex Diana Rigg car, then Peter Sellars old car went for about 60 grand lol.

[MDMA .]

Looks like whoever has bought it has enough money to paint it properly

Edited by MDMA . on Saturday 25th February 18:17

[What The Deuces]

MDMA . said:

Looks like whoever has bought it has enough money to paint it properly

Edited by MDMA . on Saturday 25th February 18:17

I don’t think a totally original 5k mile car is going to get painted lol

[Hereward]

Some sort of money laundering thing??

[MDMA .]

What The Deuces said:

MDMA . said:

Looks like whoever has bought it has enough money to paint it properly

Edited by MDMA . on Saturday 25th February 18:17

I don’t think a totally original 5k mile car is going to get painted lol

It isn’t original. Ignore the bullst sales speil. We walked around it and walked away. I’ve seen far nicer ones.

[SuperCharged V6]

That just doesn't make sense

[TIGA84]

Doofus said:

Because they think they've new set the new market rate for Cosworths, and they already have another couple in the garage?

Seems unlikely.

[bloomen]

TIGA84 said:

Seems unlikely.

I have considered buying one of my own Morris Itals at auction for around £100,000 and then cashing in selling the other 17.

Cannae lose.

As for this particular sale, I hope it makes everyone involved very happy indeed.

[MDMA .]

SuperCharged V6 said:

That just doesn't make sense

I know. No one in person would pay that for if they’d walked around it. Got to be a mistake.

[Earthdweller]

Someone needs to give their head a good wobble

[normalbloke]

MDMA . said:

Someone’s not going to be happy. I was there. It’s rough.

fking mugs.

Care to elaborate?

[What The Deuces]

MDMA . said:

What The Deuces said:

MDMA . said:

Looks like whoever has bought it has enough money to paint it properly

Edited by MDMA . on Saturday 25th February 18:17

I don’t think a totally original 5k mile car is going to get painted lol

It isn’t original. Ignore the bullst sales speil. We walked around it and walked away. I’ve seen far nicer ones.

I’ve seen the car myself a number of times both recently and over the years. What’s not original?

[Doofus]

TIGA84 said:

Doofus said:

Because they think they've new set the new market rate for Cosworths, and they already have another couple in the garage?

Seems unlikely.

Yesterday, it seemed unlikely that somebody would spend half a million quid on a Ford Sierra. But they did, and I'm just speculating as to why.

[sixor8]

The one that sold for £110k had 15k miles on it in 2021.

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1989-ford-sier...

This one had 5k.

In that split screen, there was woman jumping up and down and on the left, next to her, people came over to shake a bloke's hand, I presumed he was the seller. Even after fees, he'll collect about £490k!!

Quite a few 'buy it now' prices for the ones that didn't sell:

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/race-retro-cla...

Historics had an auction today too (London Classic Car show) and looking at the results, about half didn't sell....

[Olivera]

TIGA84 said:

Why would you pay 600 grand for a Sierra?

Why would you pay more, sometimes an order of magnitude more, for cars from the 60s and earlier that drive much worse?