FS: rare sales!

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Their warehouse is basically something out of GT/Forza. And they regularly get the cars out to racing events. Good article on them here.
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/art-revs-seventh-heaven-next-gen-historic-racer
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Downhill Dino
If you were able to figure it out (assuming you're certain) then why did the owner keep it a secret?
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The owner likely wants anonymity, so without such info out there, it becomes that much more difficult to track the car's history & whereabouts, thus leading to one potentially knowing more about the owner.

I am not 100% sure of my claim, but it's based on certain details/info attached to the car & the claim it was once auctioned. And because I have an obsessive habit of watching the auction market, I immediately backlogged through auction history & found the car matching the correlating info.

Most folks aren't this interested or invested, so most likely don't know where to look based on the same information I went off of which makes it easier for said anonymity.
 
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RandomCarGuy17
I'm not fully sure if this is a rare sale, but in Doral, Florida; you can now buy a Porsche 996 GT2 Clubsport. I honestly didn't know that there were 911 GT2s sold in the US prior to the 997, so this was a shock to me.
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/porsche/911gt2/2312129.html

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TMK, roughly 300 made it to the states. I'm sure a number are gone, but Clubsports & other non-US cars have probably replaced them by now. Surprisingly, still not super collectable unless it's 1 of the 70 Clubsports. $100-125,000 is enough to pick one up.
 
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McLaren
TMK, roughly 300 made it to the states. I'm sure a number are gone, but Clubsports & other non-US cars have probably replaced them by now. Surprisingly, still not super collectable unless it's 1 of the 70 Clubsports. $100-125,000 is enough to pick one up.
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That's nice to hear, a car I could see myself saving up for...maybe.
 
Auction season is soon to kick off, and if you've got lottery winnings or Nigerian Prince money waiting to be spent, 1 auction house is presenting a small collection of Group B icons.


-'86 Ford RS200 - 250,00€ - 400,000€
-'85 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evo - 600,000€ - 800,000€
-'86 Lancia Delta S4 - 600,000€ - 800,000€
-'88 Audi Sport Quattro S1 - 1,000,000€ - 1,300,000€
-'85 MG Metro 6R4 - 280,000€ - 360,000€
-'85 Renault 5 Maxi Turbo - 400,000€ - 600,000€
-'85 Lancia 037 - 500,000€ - 800,000€
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Or perhaps instead of splurging on all of these, you'd prefer to go for the star of the auction. The winner of the 1972 24 Hours of LeMans, a Matra MS 670, chassis 670-01. It was driven to victory by Henri Pescarolo & Graham Hill, the car contributing to Hill's still lone-accomplishment of The Triple Crown.
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Est: 4,000,000€ - 7,500,000€

Cars are set for auction Paris, Feb. 5th.
https://www.artcurial.com/en/sale-4058-parisienne-2021-partnership-retromobile
 
RandomCarGuy17
I'm not fully sure if this is a rare sale, but in Doral, Florida; you can now buy a Porsche 996 GT2 Clubsport. I honestly didn't know that there were 911 GT2s sold in the US prior to the 997, so this was a shock to me.
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/porsche/911gt2/2312129.html

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These GT2 Clubsport versions are extremely rare versions of an already extremely rare car, especially so in the U.S. 70 Clubsports made worldwide (as @McLaren mentioned already) of 1,287 996 GT2s. Any Porsche with the word Clubsport on it is going to be ridiculously rare.

Man, what a beauty, too, even in boring old silver. I think the 996 generation has aged so well. I hope people keep ignoring them so I can get one relatively cheap someday. :lol:
 
She's been for sale a while at that price. It definitely has history behind it, but said history is just too obscure as far as Porsche Motorsports' library goes. It basically has 2 big lap records to its name, & considering both records are supposed to be production car feats, one could save themselves a ton of money & buy an example that could, in theory, be just as capable as that car.

For $750,000, you could buy a 997 RS & spend the remaining money on another big 911 GT/RS example to join it.
 
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McLaren
She's been for sale a while at that price. It definitely has history behind it, but said history is just too obscure as far as Porsche Motorsports' library goes. It basically has 2 big lap records to its name, & considering both records are supposed to be production car feats, one could save themselves a ton of money & buy an example that could, in theory, be just as capable as that car.

For $750,000, you could buy a 997 RS & spend the remaining money on another big 911 GT/RS example to join it.
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While I don't think it's worth the price, the history is still pretty neat even if it was probably just a marketing stunt to sell the cars. If I recall, Jeff Zwart drove the car quite a long ways to Pikes Peak and set the course record for a production car before driving home again with little to no prep for the car, except maybe tires? Been a while since I read up on the car.

I didn't actually know it was the same car to set the Nürburgring lap time, so that's pretty cool if you ask me. Still, maybe not $750k cool, though. :lol:
 

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