Saw one of these in Èze (between Nice and Monaco) being loaded into a truck. Yelled out to the group I was with to turn around and look, no one else cared lol easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
I’ve seen these cars in person before at the Pebble Beach Concours and at the Monterey Historics. Pretty crazy that some of these are taken out and driven on the track!
It’s a bit of an open secret that these don’t really get raced. Some might, but it’s also common for sanctioning bodies to allow people to race a replica if they own the real car. (For example, that was the case with the 250 GTO that caught fire at Goodwood this year.)
These are insanely expensive replicas, built to a crazy-high standard, so they’re still cool to see on the track. Even so, it’s not quite the same as the real thing.
Although tbf. I don’t think it’s history makes it worth as kuch as these. I know someone with a 250gto that’s been raced in the last 2 decades on the original chassis.
I think a few original bits were resto modded slightly to preserve original bits and not need remanufactured parts and increase safety for rhe car. Example brakes. Collector has alot of his vintage all original cars besides a more modern brake upgrade sometimes suspension tweaks.
250gto that’s been in the family since they were worth not much. Benz sl300. F40 and f50 and a mclaren f1. Unfortunately the collector didn’t really expand into any of the cool hypercars and more exotic supercars after a certain point otherwise he’d probably have the coolest collection. I do know he tried to get the original veyron and couldn’t along with a Pagani pre zonda car and a first gen zonda and that seems to have like ended his quest. Newest supercars in the collection are lambos and basic ferraris. However his porsche collection and Benz and BMW collections have expanded. 60s 70s and 80s cars are the average. Some 90s stuff.
Ironically my favorite is still the Diablo with the 300zx headlights. Or his replica Shelby cobra unless we count something he has that shouldn’t technically exist. Pontiac gto but somehow has the 500 ram air 5 big block engine from the 60s. And used to be a proper drag car. Cobra replica has a replica Ford cammer now but started out as a replica cobra motor.
But gto is probably one of a handful. Silly rare and under appreciated market value. But like a true nerd piece. Also not the lame ugly green like my gto.
All garage queens hell drive but like. Too many cars to give them all proper attention. And lately he’s been going classy or just driving my gto around for me so the restomod swap doesn’t get mangled. Let’s just say insurance doesn’t like me…and I can understand why. Destroked ls7 making 700rwhp. And I’ve removed 1000lbs of weight off my judge. And it’s twincharged. Like a 16 to 18 year old tryna insure a demon but worth almost a lambo.
But if my business plans work out. Building 3 cars that’ll be 1200kg fully wet weight with 1200rwhp and rev to 10k. Mine as the first. Then 2 for this dude his and his sons and his collection will get something cool post 2005. Literally post 2005 its lambos and Benz beamers or Bentleys or his wife’s rolls and his daughters mclaren. Not getting those few cars like killed his obsession. Funniest thing I’ve seen like rich dudes so depressed he couldn’t spec them how he wanted he just gave up on cars. That sounds more like me then a dude making hundreds of mills a year xD
i was just at the velocity invitational. it was crazy to see a 250 gto, 250 gt swb berlinetta, and a 250 lm berlinetta gt and a 250 lm all get flogged around the track. and watching the racing come within inches sometimes.
I wouldn’t have paid a dime over $51.6
Cheapskate
Don’t let Gran Turismo see this
Yeah I get making rarer cars like this expensive but PD has gone too far in GT7 with some costing $20mil, it’s why we’re all exploiting the current grinding “glitch” ($4.5million per hour).
I friggen hate new GT games for this. Y’know that car that you’d never be able to afford in ten lifetimes in real life? Well now we made it equally unattainable in our game, because realism!
Remember when GT had a bunch of average cars and sportscars you might reasonably be able to make your car/a reasonable dream car from?
that’s why all of us gt7 players are exploiting this money grind right now 😂
A few years ago one went for $70 mil in a private sale, but the history around that car was more significant than this one, iirc.
We need to keep hiking interest rates
I’m so annoyed. This car is in my town and a doctor car group I’m in got the invite to see the car, I skipped the meet that day for kids soccer. It was totally happenstance, friend of a friend of a friend nice day come over never to be duplicated kinda thing
Oh you’ll see another. They’re weirdly common for how rare they are because they’re the type of car to be shown off at car shows.
Kids soccer > Ferrari. You’re a good dad
surgeon_michael about to perform surgery on the kids’ soccer balls now.
51.7 million is absolutely nuts
That’s actually mid for this car.
Isn’t this cheap for a 250 GTO?
$50 million had been the going rate for many years now and $70 million was hit a while ago.
It’s not a 250 GTO. It’s a 330 LM that later had a GTO motor fitted. It is not one of the original 36 ‘true’ 250 GTOs.
So yes, it is cheap for a 250 GTO, because it kind of isn’t one
Dang, I was wondering why it went so “low”, I thought it was going for over $100mm easily. It was getting hyped up like crazy, had its own auction, was getting posted about constantly, nicknamed “The One”. Apparently I missed the fact that it’s an engine swap, or they didn’t report it as heavily as all the other attention grabbing stuff lol Explains the unexpected result, I suppose
The $70m car was a 1 of 1 with racing pedigree.
The last “normal” gto sold for $48m in 2018, which means the gto’s are actually depreciating if this one sold for $51m
I feel so fortunate that I got to see six of these things running around Laguna Seca one year. I remember being behind the wall at the exit of turn 2 and hearing and seeing these things roar around the corner. Was very cool.
No car is worth that, it’s the marketplace doing that, what some rich person who can afford it , granted it’s a nice car but geeze, that money could help a lot of people who are struggling.
It’s just money laundering at this point
I don’t believe that there’s only like 1000 billionaires or something. There’s too many ultra wealthy people able to just drop 50million on a car
To be fair, of one kind of car was worth 50, it’s probably this thing.
What a shitty society we’ve built for ourselves where a few hairless apes can spend 25 lifetimes of wealth on a single thing with 4 wheels just for shits and giggles while the majority wonder if they’ll even be able to retire before Alzheimer’s gets them
You go first to set an example then.
Sell all your assets and share the cash out.
better plan would be build cash flowing assets (ie businesses) and use the cashflow to help people. would do much more good in the long term.
Can’t wait till a disgruntled mistress or trophy wife shat on it and destroy its fake value.
The rich just keeps getting richer.