Market Intelligence
Repêchage auctions: useful and interesting
The article highlights some notable sales in the classic car auction market between August and December 2021, including a Citroen 2CV Charleston, a Fiat 500 D Convertible, a Toyota SR5 pickup, a Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster, an Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger continuation, a Ford Falcon XY GT-HO Phase III Sedan, and a Porsche 997 Sport Classic. Some of these sales set new world records, while others exceeded their estimates by a significant margin.
With over 5,300 cars auctioned between August and December, dedicating myself to the digests I prefer, those of models that should not be forgotten, the ones that managed to escape our weekly roundups, is by no means an easy task.
To avoid any favouritism, I have presented them chronological order. So, without further ado:
In August, the French auction house Aguttes organized a sale with only a few lots but of the absolute highest quality. The first vehicle of the sale was a Citroen 2CV Charleston from 1990 with only 9 km from new which had never been registered. A truly exceptional example with an equally exceptional estimate: €50,000-€70,000, equal to the value of a dozen normal examples. But the offers came flooding in and it was sold for €141,960 ($159,922), a record. And it didn’t end there: one month later, Aguttes offered another with just 18 km on the clock which went for €120,300 ($136,085). At the end of November, during the online auction of Artcurial (**we analysed it here**), a 2CV 6 Special from 1988 with 57,000 km on the clock eclipsed its estimate of €12,000-€18,000 by changing hands for €39,680 ($44,885). New youth for an old lady.
