Hammer Down: The 25 Most Expensive Cars at the 2015 Monterey Auctions - Car and Driver (blog)
1959 Ferrari 250GT California LWB Spider (open headlight), sold for $8,500,000 (RM Sotheby’s). 1961 Ferrari 250GT California SWB Spider (closed headlight), sold for $16,830,000 (Gooding). The fact that this car was originally painted metallic blue and had a red leather interior—a charming change of pace in the red-over-tan sea of Ferrari-dom—doesn’t seem to have hurt its value, although Gooding’s description of the car more or less... (Naturally, it was painted resale red by a car dealer in New York in the late 1960s, pretty much as soon as it was brought over to the States and traded in on a new Jaguar E-type. ) In any case, California Spiders are among the most desirable cars on the planet, and this example’s closed headlights and short wheelbase add to the appeal. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
