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Bonhams & Butterfields conducted its first East Coast sale in 2003 with an auction of Edwin C. Jameson's collection of classic cars and antiques in Massachusetts, US. During 2005, Bonhams expanded further with the opening of the Paris office and a new saleroom in New York.
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
Auction house Bonhams, instructed to sell the car by the eight Carr heirs, [7] made it the centrepiece of their February 2009 sale at the Rétromobile car show in Paris. [8] Due to its rarity, low mileage and original condition, it was speculated that it could become one of the most expensive (nominal) cars ever sold at auction, at around £6 ...
While most stayed on the home market, 49 were exported. Cars in good condition will now regularly fetch in excess of £300,000. A near concours example was auctioned by Bonhams at the 2007 Goodwood Festival of Speed for £199,500. Due largely to its rarity, auction prices for the SS100 have since risen strongly.
A replica Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car built by Gordon Grant made its debut in 2008 at Pinewood Studios [46] and was sold at an auction held on 1 December 2011 at Bonhams at Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey, UK, bearing the registration plate WGG 5. [47]
The auction house Bonhams – in its Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale on 12 July 2013 – sold Mercedes-Benz W196R Chassis no. 196 010 00006/54 for a new World Record £19.7-million Sterling ($29.6 million, incl. auction premium). [6] The total bill, including UK VAT on commission charged, came to £20,896,800.00 Sterling. [7]
In 2018 he sold a 1935 Duesenberg for $22 million – the most expensive car ever to sell at auction in the US. [4] In recent years he has raised large sums of money at various charity auctions in Britain, including CLIC Sargent, The Elton John AIDS Foundation, The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, Caldwell Children and The Lord's Taverners. [5]
In 1965, after some other intermediate owners, the Atom was bought by ex-Aston racing driver Nigel Mann, who kept the car in France until 1986, when it was purchased by Tom Rollason, who repatriated it to the UK where it underwent a full restoration. [8] In June 2014 the Atom was put up for auction by Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. [17]