Jerry Seinfeld car auction, Jerry Seinfeld woke up this weekend a few Porsches lighter -- and millions of dollars richer -- afterwards affairs 17 collectible cars he put up for arrangement Friday at auction.
The comedian's cars -- 15 Porsches and two Volkswagens -- brought in $22,244,500, including $5,335,000 for just one of them, a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder that was alone hardly adolescent than 61-year-old Seinfeld.
Here's the thing: Overall, it looks as if buyers got a bargain. The high-end appraisal by the Gooding & Co. arrangement abode for all the cars listed was about $10 actor added than the final take, Jalopnik said.
The "Seinfeld" brilliant showed up to advice get the army pumped, according to the arrangement house, which said the '55 Spyder sparked "a diffuse behest battle" afore the gavel assuredly came down. Hey, it takes some time to calculation that high, right?
Seinfeld had ahead said in a account that he admired owning the cars and if he had absolute time, amplitude and absorption he never would accept awash a individual one.
"[T]he acumen I capital to bid these cars adieu in this way is absolutely just to see the attending of action on the faces of the next owners who I apperceive will be out of their minds with joy that they are traveling to get to acquaintance them," he said in February.
Among the babies Seinfeld saw placed in admiring homes were a 1959 Porsche 718 RSK, which awash for $2,860,000; a 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 IROC RSR, $2,310,000; a 1990 Porsche 962C, $1,650,000; a 1958 Porsche 356 A 1500 GS/GT Carrera Speedster, $1,540,000; a 1994 Porsche 964 Turbo 3.6 S Flachbau, $1,017,500; a 1998 Porsche 993 3.8 Cup RSR, $935,000; and a 1963 Porsche 356 B 2000 GS/GT Carrera 2 Coupe, which went for a simple $825,000.
Seinfeld aswell had a 1960 VW Beetle on the block, and according to Jalopnik it went for $121,000, added than alert its estimated amount prediction.
The abandoned leftover?
A non-drivable Carrera GT abstraction car, one of two in the world, which was tagged to go for $1,500,000 to $2,250,000 but didn't accomplish the minimum, admitting getting "a absolutely bespoke, hand-built abstraction car with antagonism roots" that was "purchased by Jerry Seinfeld anon from Porsche in 2007."
The comedian's cars -- 15 Porsches and two Volkswagens -- brought in $22,244,500, including $5,335,000 for just one of them, a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder that was alone hardly adolescent than 61-year-old Seinfeld.
Here's the thing: Overall, it looks as if buyers got a bargain. The high-end appraisal by the Gooding & Co. arrangement abode for all the cars listed was about $10 actor added than the final take, Jalopnik said.
The "Seinfeld" brilliant showed up to advice get the army pumped, according to the arrangement house, which said the '55 Spyder sparked "a diffuse behest battle" afore the gavel assuredly came down. Hey, it takes some time to calculation that high, right?
Seinfeld had ahead said in a account that he admired owning the cars and if he had absolute time, amplitude and absorption he never would accept awash a individual one.
"[T]he acumen I capital to bid these cars adieu in this way is absolutely just to see the attending of action on the faces of the next owners who I apperceive will be out of their minds with joy that they are traveling to get to acquaintance them," he said in February.
Among the babies Seinfeld saw placed in admiring homes were a 1959 Porsche 718 RSK, which awash for $2,860,000; a 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 IROC RSR, $2,310,000; a 1990 Porsche 962C, $1,650,000; a 1958 Porsche 356 A 1500 GS/GT Carrera Speedster, $1,540,000; a 1994 Porsche 964 Turbo 3.6 S Flachbau, $1,017,500; a 1998 Porsche 993 3.8 Cup RSR, $935,000; and a 1963 Porsche 356 B 2000 GS/GT Carrera 2 Coupe, which went for a simple $825,000.
Seinfeld aswell had a 1960 VW Beetle on the block, and according to Jalopnik it went for $121,000, added than alert its estimated amount prediction.
The abandoned leftover?
A non-drivable Carrera GT abstraction car, one of two in the world, which was tagged to go for $1,500,000 to $2,250,000 but didn't accomplish the minimum, admitting getting "a absolutely bespoke, hand-built abstraction car with antagonism roots" that was "purchased by Jerry Seinfeld anon from Porsche in 2007."
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