Friday 30th July 2010

Auction Fever: RM Monterey

Some very, very tasty motors up for grabs in California...

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The annual Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance in California will be with us in a fortnight's time - which also means some very tasty cars for sale at auction.

Today we're taking a look at the RM Auctions sales on 12, 13 and 14 August (largely because the glossy catalogues landed in the office earlier this week) and have picked a few of our favourite lots out for your perusal and approval.

There's plenty of stuff we've missed out, mind, so do pop and have a dribble at the stuff that's on offer on RM's website and tell us which cars are your favourites.

Gorgeous 300SL estimated to fetch $450k	Lincoln Continental special was used by JFK
This '73 911 RS was 'remanufactured' by Porsche in 1996	1931 Bugatti GP car? Yours for $3.5- 4.5m
Ferrari 250 TR 'Pontoon Fender'. What's the retail on one of those?	Ferrari FXX: 860bhp of madness
Subaru 360 police car. Utter genius. Garlick has already placed a bid	Lambo LM002: Hummer eat your heart out
Allard J2X: is 400hp enough for your 1950s sports car?	One of two Ferrari Dinos at the sale
Porsche 959: 1980s-tastic	1964 Cobra is ex-Team Shelby
1949 166 Inter Coupe: proper early Ferrari-age	1979 Ferari 512 BB/LM: Gurgle. It's all we can say...

[soad]

Ohh, Cobra looks awesome - so does the FXX and 911 RS!

[Frimley111R]

LOL, imagine turning up to a Scooby owners meet in that 360!

[Skylinecrazy]

250TR could be a record breaker surely.

[BBS-LM]

There is some very nice Metal there, I really like the Subaru 360 police car, never seen that before.

[nelly_h]

I'd absolutely love a MkII Lincoln Continental limo. Not crazy prices to pick up a good one in the states, but I imagine importing and keeping one on the road in England would be a nightmare

[robman23]

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode... that one of my favourites in the auction.

[Skylinecrazy]

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode...

The 275GTB is probably in the top 5 best looking cars ever made.

Look at the carbs!

Would be the first car in the lottery garage!

[Snoggledog]

I rather like 1970 DeTomaso Mangusta

ETA..

ISO Daytona

Edited by Snoggledog on Friday 30th July 14:48

[Retset]

I just love this car - a sheer work of art: http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode...

Probably drives like a bag of crap mind

[Or888t]

robman23 said:

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode... that one of my favourites in the auction.

at those us spec bumpers talk about ruining a car!

[thehardman07]

I'll take the 959 then if nobody else will.

I'd have to source the smooth design wheels it also came with though. Why? Because that's the wheels the 959 on my bedroom wall had!

[Lax Power]

Cobra... Done.

[P4ROT]

Would love to see this used on an episode of Police Interceptors

[Dangermouse78]

Cant be used on the road but I VERY like the 512LM

[6th Gear]

I'll take the 250 Testarossa. What a sound!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJ6cVO_g9E

Edited by 6th Gear on Friday 30th July 18:04

[8400rpm]

Skylinecrazy said:

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode...

The 275GTB is probably in the top 5 best looking cars ever made.

Look at the carbs!

Would be the first car in the lottery garage!

Completely agree.

[vintageracer01]

robman23 said:

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode... that one of my favourites in the auction.

Tastes can be quite different.

I can't help it but I would be in for this one:

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode...

[vintageracer01]

6th Gear said:

I'll take the 250 Testarossa. What a sound!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJ6cVO_g9E

Edited by 6th Gear on Friday 30th July 18:04

And proper over-taking that is! Just fantastic!

[DrRazzle]

P4ROT said:

Would love to see this used on an episode of Police Interceptors

That looks like it has New Zealand Traffic Patrol Markings?

[BBS-LM]

P4ROT said:

Would love to see this used on an episode of Police Interceptors

hahahaha, yeah with a 911 Turbo engine.