The enormous concept – which will make its debut at Pebble Beach this week – is as majestic as it is large, with a reinterpreted gawping Maybach grille, tapering low boat-tail and radical aerodynamic 24-inch wheels.
With just four Ferrari 330 LMBs ever built, using an almost identical four-litre V12 to that found in the 1962 Le Mans-winning 330 TRI, it is both rarer and more technologically advanced than the hallowed GTO.
Even ‘The Week’ is no longer representative, as a ‘Pre-union’ already took place last weekend at the Laguna Seca Raceway. A number of other enthusiast-minded events will take place over the coming days, with all tastes of motoring (and, in the case of the McCall Motorworks Revival, aviation) catered for. But the real elegance, in name at least, begins on the Thursday, as the Tour d’Elegance rolls out and revellers are given their first glimpse of the cars whose tyres will grace the immaculate links lawns on Sunday.
As RM’s headlining lots are edged onto their plinths and polished to within an inch of their lives at the Portola Hotel ahead of the two-day sale on 19-20 August, so our focus turns to the catalogue in general – one with, in the face of an ever more discerning buyer’s market, ambitious estimates across the board.
