Yellow F40 at Coy's Auction, sold price???

[boringbeige]

There was a yellow F40 race car for sale at Coy's auction held at Autosport International last saturday, does anybody know how much it sold for?

[boringbeige]

Of course it was second hand, it's 25 years old.

Oh right, I get you.....

Messing with you....thanks for that. fair price that I reckon, will have been some auction house fee on top of that too.

[boringbeige]

Nor did I but it's a 25 year old Italian car that was raced for a decade then laid up for a decade. And they were tatty when they were brand new. So I reckon it was bound to be rough round the edges; and maybe in the middle too. But it's still an F40 and so still going to be ace, so long as the mechanicals have been looked after.

[boringbeige]

If 850k was the hammer price, then 129k of fees would be added on top of that. So the successful bidder paid 979K.

[boringbeige]

As the OP, I'm surprised at the price paid for this car, I expected it to be between 650 and 750 all in, not almost a mill. In my mind, this car is not an 'LM' so can't command that type of money and it's not road legal so cant be used, leaving it as nothing more than a track day car for 'noisy' days. I don't mean any of that to be disparaging cos at the end of the day we would all love a track prepped F40 and a trailer. None the less, I'm surprised at the money paid and I hope the new owner does what we'd all like to do and blasts it round a few circuits.....or.....even......enter some races for '90's sportscars... I guess this tells me that the F40 market is healthy and strong, and I see nothing bad about that.