RM Auction on Speed

Which one Classy

 

not BJ.

 

Was that the same as on ESPN2? With the Bentleys...?

Had a really beautiful Lamborghini 400GT that went for $230k:

http://www.400gt.com/articles/Brians/Brians.htm

That's the same car a few years back

Cheers,

Fred

 

I like the RM Auctions with the volume turned all the way down. One of the commentators comes across as knowing absolutely nothing and sounds like he is reading from a script; kinda cheapens the whole experience.

Anybody agree with me? Anybody know what I'm talking about?

 

Oh man, that's totally true! Frankly, they wouldn't know what one of these cars were if it hit him in the nose. ;^D

But then, that's hollywood.

Cheers,

Fred

(PS: Obviously some of these guys would...but not that particular guy)

 

Yup. The guy that we know we are speaking of sounds like he is yelling instead of announcing.

You'd figure that RM would wake up on this. I do believe that B. Jackson is more of a cattle call, but I can deal with it because their guys know what they are talking about.

I'll bet us F chatters could do a hell of a better job!!

Thanks for chiming in guys,
Steve

 

The main announcer seemed to know nothing about cars (probably a trypical ESPN jock re-tread) and sounded like he had a mouth full of red hot ball bearings.....all unintelligible shouting.

Jack

 

I wouldn't trust RM very much either, especially after what happened with the Ponder 246 Dino - check out the 206/246 sub-forum.

Mark

 

I think with any car at auction you have to check the provenance of the car out yourself. Ask questions, research the model, check the history.

The Dino at the Ponder sale looked iffy to me, I don't know who bought it and whether they "just bid" or whether they asked the right questions. I for one have never seen another Dino with Wire wheels, so that would have made me ask quite a few questions.

I'd say its foolish to buy anything at any auction based on purely the write up in the catalog.

For me all auctions are a show, I was at the RM auction in italy and it had a lot in common with the BJ auctions I've seen on the TV. Comments like "lots of people here haven't bought a car yet". Of course its their job to create momentum to get a good result from the sale.

I'd say the thing that they got right for the sale was a generally good selection of cars all given the OK by Ferrari. Someone overpaid for the Daytona spider in particular, but I've got to guess they'd asked the questions on the car.

RM were certainly very helpful indeed with all the questions I asked about the cars I was interested in. They co-ordinated phone conversations to validate history and I was able to talk to people from Ferrari as well.