Top prices at autumn auction

A CLASSIC 250km/h British grand touring car in ‘project’ condition needing a full restoration was the top-selling vehicle in Shannons Timed Online Autumn Auction which concluded on May 30.

The once-glorious 1967 Aston Martin DB6 Vantage vied for top honours in the 245-lot auction, finally selling after 10 bids for $226,000, with a 1993 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Coupe ($186,000), a time-warp 2017 Holden HSV GTS-R sedan that has covered just 2036km since new ($153,000), and a rare 1995 V12-engined Ferrari 456 Coupe ($120,000) to take the honours in the week-long national auction.

Other exotic European GT cars to sell well included a left hand drive DeTomaso Pantera Coupe ($91,000) and a BMW 840Ci coupe ($38,500).

As expected from recent Shannons auctions, the top-selling lots of the sale were heritage black and white numerical number plates, with the early New South Wales-issued ‘31’ attracting a top bid of $1.648 million to win the ‘state of origin’ war over the Victorian plate ‘52’ ($1.457m) in the auction’s final hours. The triple digit VIC plate ‘535’ sold for $500,000, NSW ‘232’ sold for $470,000, NSW ‘421’ went for $311,000.