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Stunning Porsche 550 fetches £4.6million at Bonhams Revival sale

11th September 2016
Bob Murray

What’s said to be the world’s best-preserved, never-restored example of the Porsche 550 Spyder sold at the Bonhams Revival auction at Goodwood on Saturday (September 10th) for just over £4 million.

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In a packed marquee, the bidding started at £2.8m and when bidders in the room and on the phone had finished fine minutes later the car was sold for £4,100,000. With buyers’ premium, the total was £4,593,500.

The classic ‘James Dean Porsche’, the 1956 Porsche 1.5-litre TYP 550/1500 RS (Rennsport) Spyder comes with no racing history but total originality, down to the hood, door cards and every last latch and buckle.

Another high flyer was the 1950 Frazer-Nash Le Mans Replica that Roy Salvadori made his debut in at Silverstone in 1951 – when he crashed and nearly killed himself. That went for £603,333 including premium.

The rare Aston Martin Vantage Le Mans V600 coupe, one of just 40 made and with just 17,000 miles on the clock, sold for £354,300. See our story on that here.

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At the other end of the scale the 1936 Pontiac 4.0-litre motorhome  with the English hand-crafted interior sold for £34,500. More on that here.

Of the other cars we highlighted in our preview with Bonhams’ Tim Schofield the star performer was the gold-coloured Ferrari Dino 246 GT, two owners and 25,000 miles from new, that came with a guide price of £150-200,000 but sold on the day for an impressive £262,000 before premium.

The Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato coupe, ex-Rowan Atkinson and the 1986 Geneva show car, sold for  £225,000 before premium – just £5000 more than  was spent on it in the past converting it into a track car.

Images courtesy of Bonhams.

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