Cars

Ecurie Ecosse returns home

The line-up of classic Ferraris choreographed by RM Sotheby’s for its Villa Erba auction could double up as a summary of the highpoints of the Italian marque’s history.

From 18:00 on 4 May 2015, no fewer than 40 impressive machines (one motorcycle and 39 cars) will go under the hammer at the Berlin premises of the Auto Classics Club – and Auctionata has spared no effort in rolling each lot into a studio to be captured by a professional photographer.

Le Mans ambitions

“We work closely with the client to identify all the important features of the car that they want us to capture,” self-proclaimed ‘bald art director and car enthusiast’ Steve Schenko told Classic Driver. “The most common request we get is to capture the decals on the cars – the little things that make their car ‘theirs’. A good example is a customer from California, who asked us to capture a very subtle decal he had placed on the rear window of his 993 C2S. The decal is so subtle that most people would never notice it, but to us (and him) that’s what makes it cool – he’ll notice it.”