Ferrari 250 GTO sells for a record-breaking £52million

[PostBot]

One of the finest examples of the most desirable of Ferraris has changed hands for $70million

Source: http://www.evo.co.uk/ferrari/21325/ferr ... -52million

[speedingfine]

Bloody lovely

Quite a lot of cash though

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[Rich B]

“The new owner of this 250 GTO is David MacNeil, CEO of WeatherTech – a car floor mat manufacturer...”

Clearly the fella who does the embroidery on Yu’s mats.

[PaulJ]

“The new owner of this 250 GTO is David MacNeil, CEO of WeatherTech – a car floor mat manufacturer...”

Clearly the fella who does the embroidery on Yu’s mats.

I bet he gets it resprayed in red.

[JLv3.0]

Reckon it will get driven? That level of value for a car is almost impossible for me to process.

[Rich B]

Reckon it will get driven? That level of value for a car is almost impossible for me to process.

but as a piece of history or even art, it is cheap when you compare it to some of the crazy prices people pay for famous paintings.

[JLv3.0]

Anything is worth exactly what someone will pay for it, I have no problem with that.

It's just a shame when something gets so valuable you're unable to use it for its core function. that's all.

[Rich B]

Anything is worth exactly what someone will pay for it, I have no problem with that.

It's just a shame when something gets so valuable you're unable to use it for its core function. that's all.

A shame, but eventually it’ll have to be retired from thrashing around a track anyway - there’s surely only a finite number of years these old chassis/bodies/engines can actually take the fatigue of it?

[JLv3.0]

I was more on about it being driven at all rather than racing. I can't see anyone, no matter how rich, thinking it's a justifiable risk to take a 52m quid car racing.