Coastal Traveler - Fall 2008 - (Page 15) coastal classic Bugatti 575c Atalante The 1937 Bugatti type 57SC Atalante coupe sold for $7,920,000 at the Gooding & Co. Pebble Beach auction on August 16, 2008, setting a North American record for a car sold at auction. www.goodingco.com The atmosphere at the Gooding & Company auction was one of well-bred, international money, of Angnellis and Fords. It took place in a white tent, near the Pebble Beach equestrian center, with lights gaining definition as the sky darkened behind them. Men wore Saville Row summer suits with casualizing accents like a sweater thrown over the shoulder, and sat with legs crossed at a European angle, sockless. Their companions wore bias-cut linen and looked admiringly toward the alpha males who sat up front, in reserved seats, bidding millions of dollars for the largest collection of Bugattis ever put up at auction. Some were worried that the market for classic cars had peaked, that even the rich suffered constipated financing, that the market was much like 1989, when classic car prices last peaked and then dropped like bubble stocks. One man at the auction said, “I am selling all my cars. They are my only asset that hasn’t fallen.” But unlike condos in the desert, there are a finite number of top level classic cars, perhaps 5,000. And there are now 95,000 people with $30,000,000 or more in assets, many of whom have the good taste to admire Gullwings. In May, a disk jockey bought James Coburn’s Ferrari 250GT California Spyder for $11,070,000. The Bugatti Atalante, above, was the prom queen at the Gooding auction and tested the mettle of an anxious market. As the price rose at auction a companionable current passed through observers and into the incandescent bidders, who grew brighter and brighter as the price reached a North American record for a car sold at auction, almost 8 million dollars. fall coastaltraveler 15 http://www.goodingco.com
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