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1972 Alfa Romeo 33/3 TT: £525,000 - 575,000 |
RM Auctions’ Battersea sale returns this October for its fifth, consecutive year. In 2010 the event grossed £20 million and early entries - including a trio of significant Alfa Romeos - bode well for 2011.
The most exciting of these is the 1972 33/3 TT – chassis number AR11572/010 – that raced in the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hours in the hands of Nino Vaccarella and Andrea de Adamich. Complete with a freshly rebuilt, 440bhp, 3.0-litre V8, the car carries an estimate of £525,000 - £575,000. Less affluent Alfisti might be tempted by the James Young-bodied 1929 6C 1750 estimated at £100,000-130,000, or the 1939 6C 2500 Cabriolet. The latter is believed to be one of only two examples completed by Touring, and carries an estimate of £180,000-220,000.
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1967 Maserati Mistral 4000 Coupé | 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750: £100,000-130,000 |
Naturally enough, no classic car auction is complete without a Ferrari (or ten), and the 1966 275 GTB is a fine example. Chassis 08255 has just 26,400km showing on the dash, and the long-nose, alloy-bodied example is expected to fetch £660,000 - £720,000. Another light alloy car in the sale is the lavishly restored 1965 Iso Grifo A3 C (£350,000 - 400,000), the last-ever A3 C produced.
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1965 Iso Grifo A3 C (alloy-body): £350,000-400,000 |
Another British car on offer at Battersea, this time suitable for the street, rather than the track, is a freshly restored 1964 Aston Martin DB5, estimated at £220,000-260,000.
RM's next sale is of course at Monterey, on the 19 and 20 August. You can view all the entries in the Classic Driver car database.
RM Auctions
One Classic Car Drive Blenheim Ontario N0P 1A0 Canada Telephone: +1 519 352 45 75 +44 (0)20 7851 7077 Fax: +1 519 351 13 37 Website: www.rmauctions.com Email: [email protected]. |
Text: Joe Breeze
Photos: Courtesy of RM Auctions
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