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A London in Monterey Week Style for RM Sotheby’s
Beneath the hammer in London, a Giallo Daytona SP3 and Ayrton Senna’s NSX rewrote the record books – and a £25,300 Integra Type R stole the writer’s
A fitting way to introduce this hugely successful RM Sotheby’s sale in London is to begin with a piece of memorabilia estimated at £80,000–120,000 that sold for no less than £216,000. It was the registration plate "RAF 1" – usable on any car in England. Did it go to a pilot from the RAF, the Royal Air Force? Nobody knows, but we can take the success of this lot as a symbol of an auction that truly flew high.
The number of cars offered has been stable for some years now: 60, with 51 sold – an 85% rate.
