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This is a list of the most expensive cars sold in public auto auctions through the traditional bidding process.. On May 5, 2022, in a secret auction at the brand's museum in Germany, Mercedes-Benz sold one of just two 1955 300 SLR Uhlenhaut coupes from its extensive collection of historical automobiles—which dates back to the earliest days of the car in the late 19th century.
It was such a rare and unusual car that it sold at Mecum Kissimmee 2023 for a cool $1.1 million. ... This initial prototype remains the most expensive muscle car ever sold, setting the record in ...
Here are the most expensive muscle cars sold at auction we could find. ... A 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra that Carroll Shelby owned sold for $5.49 million at Mecum Auctions. Shelby was the car’s only ...
Elon Musk. In 1989, a couple from Long Island, New York, plunked down $100 on what might be history’s greatest blind auction gamble. ... a restored 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe sold ...
Mecum Auctions was founded in 1988 by Dana Mecum, [1] a car enthusiast whose father operated a dealership in Marengo, Illinois. [2] [3] Dana Mecum initially bought 40 semi-trailer trucks in the 1980s, and traded 10 of them for four houses which he rented out. According to him, "The tenants started calling me in the middle of the night to fix ...
Later offered at Mecum's Austin, Texas auction on December 12, 2014; did not meet reserve at $380,000 USD. [16] 9: 7R02C179710: Sold at Mecum's Indianapolis auction on May 18, 2013 for US$1,000,000. Touted as the "main" hero car in the film and used for promotional photographs. [23] [20] [24]
Called the most important Aston Martin ever made by Bloomberg, the 1956 Aston Martin DBR1 holds the distinction of being the most expensive British car ever sold at auction.
Elon Musk made $175.8 million when PayPal was sold to eBay in October 2002. [9] He was first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion. [4] Musk paid $455 million in taxes on $1.52 billion of income between 2014 and 2018. [10] According to ProPublica, Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018. [11]