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70 million dollar Porsche... oops

#1 Post by Eric Meyer »

https://youtu.be/_LRE7kXcUvA

Click the YouTube link for the video of the type 64 no sale at 70... oops 17 million. https://youtu.be/_LRE7kXcUvA
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Strangest auction I have ever seen. Auctioneer says bid opens at 30M; crowd gasps. Then 40M, 50M 60M finally 70M; at which point he says that it's really SeventeenM, not SeventyM. How the hell do you start at 30 and then jump to 70. This guy should be looking for another job.

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#3 Post by Tim Berardelli »

Looks like those bids were coming from a light switch/light fixture in the back of the room!

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#4 Post by Richard Emerson »

It was 13, 14, 15, 16,17

Agreed he was mispronouncing it and the board was showing the wrong numbers. I was watching it live and had someone (an expert) in the room to bid for me on a later lot and he said it was a deliberate joke. I’m. It sure.

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Like Vic said, that was a crazy auction. Not sure, at the end of the day, where that leaves the owner of the car and it’s valuation, lots of strong emotions regarding history and where it stands in the Porsche scheme of things.

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lots of chandeliers bidding. No actual bidders. What a comprehensive fail. If there were actual bidders... and if they were foriegn... I can imagine the language translation confusion while reading the numbers on the overhead screen...and not understanding... would have stifled them from bidding. Seems like a lot of effort was gone to... sad to see such a strange result. Now the car has this additional weird cloud added to its provenance.

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Who owns the typ 64?
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here's a longer video showing the entire auction… the 17 million dollar bid appears to be an auction house chandelier bid… attempting to get the room up to the 20 million dollar reserve. There appears to be one telephone bidder who in the end… never actually bids… so the sale fails at 17 million.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AR8yvZXUQ

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That's why most of us need subtitles when we watch those British movies.
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#10 Post by Mike Ruddy »

The auctioneer was Dutch. :wink:

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#11 Post by Paul Ahnell »

Even better! his diction was just like that of my good friend from the UK. I still want my subtitles when I watch Midsomer Murders.
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Paul, I am British (Welsh) and I need subtitles quite often for some of the British accents. There are a lot of variances in British dialects but I found when I lived for a while in Amsterdam that the Dutch spoke very good english, and it was more understandable than the dialect spoken by a close female friend many years ago from Georgia.
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"it was more understandable than the dialect spoken by a close female friend many years ago from Georgia"
Was she part of your female Formula Vee pit crew?

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David Jones wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:25 pm Paul, I am British (Welsh) and I need subtitles quite often for some of the British accents. There are a lot of variances in British dialects but I found when I lived for a while in Amsterdam that the Dutch spoke very good english, and it was more understandable than the dialect spoken by a close female friend many years ago from Georgia.
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#15 Post by Vic Skirmants »

:D :D :D :D

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