$1.3 M Austin Healey

[curtisaa]

Moral of this story : Never underestimate what something is worth.

http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story...ctioned-113011

[advtracing]

true , here's a porsche one but not so dramatic . a porsche 911 1965 in parts came up for sale 6 months ago ( amazingly 5 mins up the road from me ) i didn't bother with it as i didn't need project and others were keen to buy it and restore it. it was rusty and as it had changed hands 3 times in parts things might be missing. Anyway car was sold to a member and we did some digging on the vin ......turned out the car was the first porsche 911 ever sold in new zealand . so it's worth suddenly jumped up

[t6dpilot]

What the hell?



That is unbelieveable!



Well not really, didn't we have a sale occur here recently that was similiar? Actually, that looks like a neat car and with a storied history. Interesting sale. There truly is a butt for every seat.

[advtracing]

if in a museum imagine the tour dialog with visitors "....and here we have the MG that caused the accident at le mans that killed the most spectators ever..." some how i don't think it works

[JohnT]

It's not the car's fault. But I agree that 1.3 million dollars for a car whose only significance is that it was involved in the deaths of 80+ people....... Well the James Dean car probably would change hands for more and it only killed 2 people!

johnt

[MarkH]

If I'm not mistaken, this is a 100S. These cars are now 500K so it's not quite as big a stretch.