Much like the coupe version of this car, you can really see the Maserati influence in this car. Well, not really influence, I guess. The car is based on a Maserati GranCabriolet. A 2015 example, specifically.
But the conversion performed by Carrozzeria Touring was not performed until 2020. The car retains the underlying Maserati 4.7-liter V8 that was rated at 454 horsepower. The Touring conversion was mostly limited to exterior styling inspired by the three Touring-bodied Maserati 3500 GTs built for the Shah of Iran (Persia).
Just 14 of these convertibles were produced, with this Belgium-based car having covered just 135 miles since completion. It now has an estimate of $380,000-$490,000. Click here for more info.
Here’s another Tyrrell Formula 1 car. This sale also has a re-creation of the team’s famous six-wheeler. The 007 was actually the car that was used right before the P34 (the six-wheeler) debuted. The 007 was on the F1 grid from 1974 through 1977 with various teams.
Power is provided by a 3.0-liter Ford-Cosworth DFV V8. This car, chassis 007/06, has the following competition history:
1975 French Grand Prix – 9th (with Jody Scheckter)
1975 British Grand Prix – 3rd (with Scheckter)
1975 German Grand Prix – 14th, DNF (with Scheckter)
1975 Austrian Grand Prix – 8th (with Scheckter)
1975 Italian Grand Prix – 8th (with Scheckter)
1975 United States Grand Prix – 6th (with Scheckter)
1976 Brazilian Grand Prix – 5th (with Scheckter)
1976 South African Grand Prix – 4th (with Scheckter)
1976 United States Grand Prix West – 13th, DNF (with Scheckter)
1976 Spanish Grand Prix – 16th, DNF (with Scheckter)
After that, the car was purchased by privateer driver Otto Stuppacher, who managed to not qualify or start three races later in 1976. It went hillclimbing in 1979 and 1980 and later made it’s way into the collection of Jody Scheckter. It now has an estimate of $700,000-$950,000. Click here for more info.
1927 Renault Type RA Two-Door Cabriolet by Million-Guiet
Offered by Bring a Trailer Auctions | May 2024
Photo – Bring a Trailer
The Type RA was produced by Renault from late 1926 through 1928, when it was replaced by the much-more modern Vivastella. Just 344 15 CV Type RA chassis were built during that time, so it was rare then, much less now.
This car sports one-off coachwork by Million-Guiet and has seating for five: two front seats, a sideways-facing rear seat, and a two-person rumble seat. Power is from a 3.2-liter inline-six.
Displayed at the 1926 Paris and New York auto shows, this car was purchased new by a family in New York, where it remained for 60 years. The next owner restored it and then parked it away. It wasn’t until 2017 when it reemerged. You should check out more on this one here.
Offered by Mecum | Indianapolis, Indiana | May 2024
Photo – Mecum
The first generation of the Bentley Continental GT entered production in 2003. The original engine was Bentley’s kind of insane W12 powerplant. A V8 joined the lineup for the second generation, and both engines carried over to the third gen, which debuted in 2017. Bentley also announced that the W12 would cease production after 2024.
Bentley had some special editions of the Continental GT ready to celebrate, but perhaps the biggest celebration would be this car: the limited-production Bacalar, which is a coachbuilt special built by Mulliner. It retains the 650-horsepower, twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter W12 of the Continental GT it is based upon.
Just 12 of these were built, and this is the final one. The car does not have a roof, and it’s not legal in the U.S. This one is here on a “show or display” exemption and will cost its next owner between $2,200,000-$2,700,000. Click here for more info.
Walter Wolf made money in the Canadian oil business and later came to know Frank Williams, whose first F1 team was struggling. Wolf bought in. Then he bought Hesketh. Then he bought bits of Graham Hill’s former team. At the end of 1976, Wolf forced out Williams, who went on to found Williams Grand Prix Engineering, which is still on the grid.
Walter Wolf Racing first appeared in F1 in 1977. They ran a single car all season for Jody Scheckter, who currently owns this, a derivative chassis of their first entry: the WR1. They would upgrade the car throughout the year as the WR2, WR3, and WR4. This car is chassis WR1/3 (aka WR3, which debuted in March 1977), and it’s competition history includes:
1977 Belgian Grand Prix – 16th, DNF (with Jody Scheckter)
1977 French Grand Prix – 15th, DNF (with Scheckter)
1977 Austrian Grand Prix – 18th, DNF (with Scheckter)
1977 Japanese Grand Prix – 10th (with Scheckter)
1977 United States Grand Prix West – 13th, DNF (with Scheckter)
1978 German Grand Prix – 10th (with Keke Rosberg)
1978 Austrian Grand Prix – 11th, DNF (with Rosberg)
The car features a 3.0-liter Ford-Cosworth DFV V8 and a Hewland gearbox. After Wolf got their WR4 and WR5 cars ready in 1978, they sold WR3 and WR3 to Theodore Racing, who used them with Keke Rosberg. The car ran in F5000 in Australia in 1979 and then in the 1980 Aurora AFX British F1 Championship with the likes of Kevin Cogan and Desire Wilson.
This car was rebuilt under Scheckter’s ownership and now has an estimate of $480,000-$695,000. More info can be found here.
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera has been around since the 1920s and became quite famous in the 1930s and ’40s with their coachbuilt bodies. Touring would later body some of the most famous Ferraris, Aston Martins, Maseratis, and Lamborghinis of the 1950s and 1960s. They closed up shop in 1966.
In 2006, the company was resurrected under new ownership and started producing limited-run vehicles based on existing cars. One such vehicle is this, the Aero 3. It’s based on the Ferrari F12berlinetta. It shares the F12’s 730-horsepower, 6.3-liter V12. This particular car utilized a 2015 F12 as a starting point and was converted by Touring to Aero 3 spec in 2020.
These are limited-run cars. A maximum of 15 Aero 3s will be built, but it’s unclear how many have been completed thus far (or if they will ever even get to 15). It has an estimate of $640,000-$960,000. Click here for more info.
In 1922 a race was organized in France called the Bol d’Or. It was a 24-hour event for cars and motorcycles, with a maximum displacement limit of 1,100cc. The race still exists, though for a long time it has been for motorcycles only.
Well Frenchman Paul Chevallier wanted to win this race. So in 1930 he started work on this car, which features a 1.1-liter inline-four and front-wheel drive. He ended up running the car in the race in 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1935. He was declared co-winner in 1934.
Three decades later, he put his car up for sale, when it was snatched up by a collector. It now has an estimate of $130,000-$160,000. Click here for more info.
Ferrari’s 312T line of cars participated in Formula 1 from 1975 through 1980. Variations won 27 races and three driver’s championships, including in 1979 when the Scuderia entered this car, the 312 T4. It is the car that Jody Scheckter used to win his only F1 championship.
It is powered by a 3.0-liter flat-12 that made somewhere around 500 horsepower. This chassis, 040, has the following competition history:
1979 Belgian Grand Prix – 1st (with Jody Scheckter)
1979 Monaco Grand Prix – 1st (with Scheckter)
1979 French Grand Prix – 7th (with Scheckter)
1979 German Grand Prix – 4th (with Scheckter)
1979 Austrian Grand Prix – 4th (with Scheckter)
1979 Dutch Grand Prix – 2nd (with Scheckter)
1979 Italian Grand Prix – 1st (with Scheckter)
1979 Canadian Grand Prix – 4th (with Scheckter)
1979 United States Grand Prix – 10th, DNF (with Scheckter)
Another Monaco Grand Prix-winning chassis. Scheckter was the only person to have raced this chassis and is the only person to have driven it since the season ended. It’s a big deal, and it has an estimate of $5,600,000-$7,000,000. Click here for more info.
Recently, as Lamborghini gets ready to sunset a model, they launch limited-production “models” which are really just variations on the model that is ending. First it was the Murcielago and the Reventon. Now that the Aventador is done, Lambo rolled out a few special edition sub models.
The Countach, which is obviously named after their car of the ’70s and ’80s, is based on the Sian FKP 37, which itself is based on the Aventador. The Countach was built in 2022, with 112 produced. Power is provided by a 6.5-liter V12 with a mild hybrid set up and all-wheel drive. Output was rated at 802 horsepower. Top speed is 221 mph.
Is as the case with such cars, they sell out more or less immediately. There are a few on the market, but this, I believe, is the first one announced at an auction. Only five were finished in this color, and this is the only one with this interior combo. The estimate is $2,050,000-$2,2450,000. Click here for more info.
The M21 was a Formula Two race car built by McLaren for the 1972 season. Jody Scheckter, who owns this car, won a single race in the M21 in London, but the car largely struggled with technical issues.
The original M21 was wrecked in the 1970s. There were two Formula Atlantic versions of the car in existence, so a couple of guys realized they had enough parts to build three M21 cars in the 1990s. One of which used a spare monocoque and the other two used existing cars, one of which was privately owned and one that was owned by McLaren.
None of them had chassis plates, but McLaren offered up some new ones that identified the cars as M21s. This is one of the three and it was sort of built for Scheckter in the ’90s. It has a Cosworth inline-four and an estimate of $140,000-$215,000. More info can be found here.
