$142.6 million. It is the first time that a classic car has been auctioned for more than 100 million of dollars. It is also the first time that a car has made the top 10 most expensive artwork ever sold. And it’s all his fault Mercedes Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé from 1955.
The sale of this Uhlenhaut Coupé shattered the maximum achieved in 2018 by a Ferrari 250 GTO, which brought down the hammer to 48.4 million and ended the supremacy of this brand at the top of the most expensive cars. In the list of 10, if we refer to the auctions, there are two Mercedes Benzes, one Aston Martin, and the other 7 are still Ferraris.
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All of these Vehicles produced between 1954 and 1964. And is that for whatever reason, the cars manufactured between the end of WWII and the mid-1960s continue to command the most interest among pockets with an abundance of avid collectors having a few million more.
“Car lovers who must realize their dream before it’s too late”explains Matthieu Lamoure, managing director of the French auction house Artcurial Motorcars, in his analysis published in the Yearbook of classic car auctions, something like the bible of the classics industry that has been collecting and analyzing auction data from around the world for almost 3 decades, being the only reliable source that allows us to take the pulse of this particular market as more and more followers grow.
And it is that the classic car market is experiencing that sort of post-pandemic euphoria of the carpe diem roll and does not leave for tomorrow what you can buy today. The unstoppable growth of online sales It is related to the boom in the sale of used cars, which have also raised their prices due to a lack of supply and guarantees that dealers will deliver the cars on time. What started as a need has exploded into a market with more possibilities every day… For some.
