For sale: £43 million private car collection - Top Gear
Ladies and gentlemen, on 13 August 2015 at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, a private collection of 30 cars will be offered up for sale. What makes this newsworthy however, is that the cars are all part of a single collection - a single private collection, no less - and represent some of the finest machinery men with tools have ever built. There are such automotive luminaries as the very first Bugatti Veyron, chassis number 001, the Lamborghini Reventon, a 1964 Ferrari 250 LM and a 1998 McLaren F1 LM. Though RM Sotheby’s has yet to reveal the full list of 30 cars, the value of the... “While many of the world’s most impressive collections were established in the public eye of the car collecting world,” says RM’s Shelby Myers, “the ‘Pinnacle Portfolio’ was assembled with a clandestine, surgical precision unlike any other that... As mentioned, RM has had to extend its Monterey auction, with this collection being sold off during an exclusive, standalone auction. We don’t need to tell you too much about the Enzo, because you’ll know everything there is to know (6. 0-litre V12, 660 horses, 0-62mph in 3. 6s, top speed of 217mph+ etc etc). It’s the last Enzo ever built - number 400 - and was gifted to (and blessed by) His Holiness Pope John Paul II by Ferrari. Source: www.topgear.com
