Auction: Who gets Ferrari 640 from Nigel Mansell?
MILLIONS are at stake Nearly 70 cars are going under the hammer at the RM Sotheby's auction house in Monaco, including the 1989 Formula 1 world champion car and other models of the Reds.
British racing driver Nigel Mansell (center), who will turn 69 in August, scored 482 points and 31 victories in Formula 1 between 1980 and 1995 and became world champion in 1992.
Today, he lives with his family on the British Channel Island of Jersey, where a museum houses several examples of his car collection. Five of them will go under the hammer at RM Sotheby's auction house on May 14 on the sidelines of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique at the Grimaldi Forum.
Victories at the GPs in Brazil and Hungary
The star is the Ferrari 640 with which Mansell competed in the 1989 Formula 1 season and finished the Brazilian and Hungarian Grand Prix victoriously. With this car, the first Formula 1 Ferrari with a semi-automatic transmission, the Maranello-based company finished third in the Constructors' World Championship that same year.
The auctioneers at RM Sotheby's hope to achieve an amount between 2.5 million and five million euros for the bolide.
Ferrari 340 MM Spider for real connoisseurs
A Ferrari 340 MM Spider (gallery on the left) from 1953 is likely to arouse great interest among people with a particularly thick wallet and a passion for automobiles. Ten years ago, the racing car fetched 3.6 million euros at an auction held by Gooding & Company.
Now it is to enrich the car collection of an interested party for six million to eight million euros. In the mid-1950s, it was successful on American racetracks, and seven years ago it took the winner's prize at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance during Monterey Car Week in California.
Citroën 2CV and Rolls-Royce also on offer
But even those for whom the Euro millions are not so loose can find something suitable at the auction in the principality on the Riviera between France and Italy.
For example, the four-wheel drive duck with two engines Citroën 2CV 4×4 "Sahara", built in 1964 (gallery on the right). However, it is also at about the same price level as a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud from 1957 that is also on offer - between 70,000 and 100,000 euros.
Source: Car-media-portal.com (cen)
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