Tuesday, May 24, 2016

For 1961 found in the magazine stack can fetch $ 14 million

1962 Chevy 409 Bubble Top Cup we'll have a look!



14 million for the classic car found under a pile of French magazines.
60 luxury cars sat on the grounds of the estate of a French tycoon decades.
Roger Baillon wanted to build a museum for cars, but the company declined.
A Ferrari 1961 should pick up to 14 9 million auction in February.
The auctioneer said that it belonged to the actor Alain Delon and Jane Fonda is mounted in it.



CNN - early next year, bidders should pay millions for cars that were around in the yard of Roger Baillon for decades.
The tycoon making French trucks had big dreams for them, he wanted to build a museum and build a miniature railroad loop for visitors to tour and see a sales auction house Paris said.
But plans evaporated when his business failed in the 1970s, he sold almost half out of his collection, but 60 of its classic European luxury and sports cars - many built in the first half of the 20th century - are stayed and gathered rust, dust and weeds for about 50 years.
Until experts drive from the auction house to auction at Artcurial recently came home in a small town in the west of France, not far from La Rochelle.



A 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider was restored after being found under a pile of magazines.
Now, buyers will probably checks for hundreds of thousands for just one exquisite carriages falling Artcurial put under the hammer in February and awaits the crown jewel in the collection, a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder, 9 to recover 5 million to 12 million euros 11 million to 14 9 million.
The convertible was one of 37 of genre is, and is in a relatively high state because he was dozing behind the doors of a tight parking space, Artcurial said.
It was piled with copies of a vintage magazine, The Life of Auto - Car Life - when the automobile expert Pierre Novikoff found Artcurial it.
roommate the Ferrari in the garage was a Maserati Gran Sport 1956 A6G Frua who think auctioneers will go for 800 000-1 2 million euros for the 990,000 to nearly $ 1 5 million.


Ferrari's roommate in the garage was a Maserati Gran Sport 1956 A6G Frua.
Most of the rest of the other sleeping beauties lay comatose beneath the corrugated tin roofs held by stations; without walls to protect them, they were exposed to the elements.
Novikov heard about the car yard on the phone and went to check.
At first, the cars looked like the rest of the junk in the yard - old washing machines, scrap metal, precious stones barrels But gradually shone through.



Nature had taken a grip on the Ivy years invaded a car and completely covered the wheel, while the weeds had taken root in a cabin as easily as in a greenhouse, Novikov said In places, the corrugated metal sheets lie directly on cars.
Baillon died there about 10 years, said the son of the spokesman Rebecca Ruff Baillon Artcurial inherited the estate but when he died recently, his heirs contacted the auction house to sell the unique collection , she added.
A pre-WW II Talbot-Lago is on the property has been led by former King Farouk of Egypt, an auction house said.
Most cars will need a deep kiss to restore the former glory of waking their exclusive brands, some of which are no longer manufactured.
Bugattis, Maseratis, Ferraris, Delahayes, Delage, Hispano-Suiza, Talbot-Lagos and Panhard Levassor-stood motionless in the field Baillon who bought the store.
The largest contingent of collected cars hit the streets between 1955 and 1965, said in a statement Artcurial.



1961 Ferrari once owned by the French silver screen demigod Alain Delon, Artcurial said, and he was photographed sitting next to Jane Fonda in 1964, and Shirley MacLaine.
Legend also sleeps in the rusty fishing covering pre-WWII Talbot-Lago, a French classic brand that disappeared 50 years ago.
This one says Artcurial was led by former King Farouk of Egypt.







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