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Originally Posted by mikeyd
...ermmm I think it's ugly. Not being contrary just for the sake of it... I think it's genuinely ugly. The fact that enough people believe it to be worth such an enormous amount of money makes it almost obscene in my eyes.
There's a Ferrari 250 California in the Ferrari dealership near my house that costs 6 million and I just don't get it.
How much should something like that be worth? who knows? From the same era and built for exactly the same purpose is this equally ugly but less obscene Jag.:
which was better engineered, better constructed, faster and is still racing regularly (and is for sale for approx $70k).
Wanting to tie up $12m in something that was thrown together by a couple of average Ferrari engineers in a few months is insanity to my mind - The world has gone nuts. |
That is not a real Jag, but a special built by privateer Tojeiro, a similar effort to the more ubiquitous Lister-Jaguars. Not better engineered than a D-type Jaguar which was nothing short of revolutionary. A proper D-type is beautiful to behold (especially the long-nose variations such as the works car driven by Mike Hawthorne to a win at LeMans in '55) and will certainly fetch $2 million, more with proper provenance. Respectable replicas are almost indistinguishable from the real ones and have proper period Jaguar running gear and can be had for under $120k. That Tojeiro is a bargain.
I'd bid up to $6million (if I had it) on a 250TR or Maserati 450S, less on an Aston martin DBR1. These are exceptionally rare cars of profound historic significance. The real crime is $12m for a 250GT California Spyder. That was purely the result of two immeasurable egos in a bidding war. In 5 years that car will turn for less than a million.
Some more nice pics of the Ferrari 250TR here:
Adventures With E - Laguna Seca