Sunday, June 03, 2012

World's Most Expensive Car

So the ex-Innes Ireland Ferrari 250 GTO has sold for $35 million, which may well be more than the total true asset value of the Spanish banking sector.

This is the car, owned by the British Racing Partnership, in which Innes won the 1962 Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood. Throughout the summer of that year he used it as his road car in Radnorshire, indeed his wife of the time, Norma, would drive it into Kington to do her shopping.

In the current financial climate I'd say it was a pretty sound investment and heaven knows how much it would be worth if it was actually red rather than duck-pond green.

UPDATE:  I'm amazed at the number of journals and websites who believe this car's competition record was restricted to the 1962 Le Mans race.  It just goes to show how many "experts" just copy each other's articles.  It would have been easy enough for them to check out the facts, here for example.

1 comment:

Richard said...

Very interested to read about Innes Ireland on your blog posts. Speaking to my Gt Uncle recently, who lives in the area, it turns out they were friends and he remembers Ireland well. I hadn't realised that the GTO was used as a roadcar in the area.

rgds, Richard
www.oldclassiccar.co.uk