The 2022 Mecum Monterey Daytime Public sale noticed file attendance with enthusiastic crowds filling the fairways of the Del Monte Golf Course daily of the three-day traditional and collector automobile public sale occasion, held Aug. 18-20. General gross sales totals for Mecum’s annual California Automobile Week public sale reached greater than $52.1 million as a complete of 297 automobiles modified arms. Amongst high particular person gross sales, 5 offered for greater than $2 million and a complete of 12 offered for costs within the seven-figure vary.
Ferrari proved to be an particularly fascinating marque on the Mecum Monterey public sale, with three of the top-10-selling heaps carrying the prancing horse emblem. Two of the prototypes from The Ferrari Prototype Assortment had been among the many public sale’s high 10 sellers, with your complete four-car assemblage promoting for an mixture $5.47 million. The gathering’s 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari Prototype PS1 (Lot S33) achieved a $2.5 million sale, grabbing the fourth seat in high gross sales, and the 2012 Ferrari LaFerrari Prototype MP1 (Lot S34) reached $1.6 million, touchdown seat No. 6.
A prewar traditional, dubbed The Ultimate Duesenberg Present Automobile, got here in because the public sale’s second highest vendor with a $2.7 million sale. Because the producer’s final new mannequin to be publicly displayed on the auto present circuit, the 1936 Duesenberg Mannequin J Rollston Convertible Berline (Lot S37), J-586/2611, was featured on the 1936 New York Auto Present and was the costliest car on show. One other prewar traditional to earn high gross sales honors was Chassis No. 16-144-722 of The Greg Dawson Marmon Sixteen Assortment with a $1.83 million sale. The 1931 Marmon Sixteen Convertible Coupe (Lot S64) is one in every of roughly 5 such automobiles that stay and encompasses a a number of award profitable restoration.
Different high sellers on the public sale included a 2014 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse Jean-Pierre Wimille Legend Version (Lot S50) that achieved $2.64 million and landed the public sale’s third highest-selling slot, whereas a 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster (Lot S62) landed fifth at $1.71 million. The highest 10 listing was rounded out by a 1959 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster (Lot S49) that offered for $1.49 million, a 1971 Plymouth Cuda Convertible (Lot F60) that introduced $1.1 million and the 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 (Lot S58) beforehand owned by the late actor Paul Walker of “Quick & Livid” fame that achieved a $1.08 million sale. The automobile that Walker drove to advertise the well-known movies—a 2001 Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec II (Lot S68.1)—was additionally supplied on the market on the Mecum Monterey public sale, and it offered for a equally robust $577,500.
The whole high 10 collector automobile gross sales on the Mecum Monterey 2022 public sale embody:
- 1958 Ferrari 250 GT ‘Tour De France’ Alloy Berlinetta (Lot S57) at $2,860,000
- 1936 Duesenberg Mannequin J Rollston Convertible Berline (Lot S37) at $2,695,000
- 2014 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse Jean-Pierre Wimille Legend Version (Lot S50) at $2,640,000
- 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari Prototype PS1 (Lot S33) at $2,500,000
- 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster (Lot S62) at $1,705,000
- 2012 Ferrari LaFerrari Prototype MP1 (Lot S34) at $1,595,000
- 1959 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster (Lot S49) at $1,485,000
- 1931 Marmon Sixteen Convertible Coupe (Lot S64) at $1,182,500
- 1971 Plymouth Cuda Convertible (Lot F60) at $1,100,000
- 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 (Lot S58) at $1,072,500
