Quite a few basic autos went underneath the hammer on the varied auctions coinciding with final week’s 2023 Monterey Automobile Week in California, however the sale of 1967 Ferrari 412P actually stood out.

The numbers-matching Ferrari race automotive was bought by Bonhams at its public sale at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering and the ultimate value paid together with the client’s premium was $30,255,000.

The worth makes it the fourth most costly Ferrari bought at public sale and the most costly automotive bought by Bonhams, eclipsing the 2013 sale of Fangio’s 1954 Mercedes-Benz F1 W196 race automotive, which bought for simply over $29 million.

A 412P hadn’t crossed the block in 1 / 4 of century, because the vehicles, constructed for endurance racing, are extraordinarily uncommon. There are simply two authentic examples, together with chassis quantity 0854 that was bought final week in Monterey, and chassis no. 0850. Two additional examples, chassis nos. 0844 and 0848, have been transformed 330 P3 race vehicles.

1967 Ferrari 412P bearing chassis no. 0854 – Photograph credit score: Bonhams

Chassis no. 0854 was initially bought as a buyer race automotive to the U.Okay.’s Maranello Concessionaires. It was pushed to third-place finishes at Spa and Le Mans, with Lucien Bianchi and Richard Attwood on the wheel in Belgium, and Attwood becoming a member of Piers Braveness for the race in France.

Chassis no. 0854 stands out as being the one 412P nonetheless with its authentic physique, chassis, engine, and transmission. The engine is a 4.0-liter V-12 with carburetors (as an alternative of gasoline injectors, which Ferrari reserved for its manufacturing facility 330 P3 and P4 vehicles) and is rated at an estimated 420 hp. The engine is mated to a 5-speed handbook transmission and sits in a chassis with unbiased suspension together with unequal size wishbones and coil springs.

1967 Ferrari 412P bearing chassis no. 0854 – Photograph credit score: Bonhams

After its racing life was over, the automotive traded arms a number of occasions, with one proprietor treating it to a nine-year restoration.

Many different basic Ferraris have been bought in Monterey. Bonhams additionally bought a 1951 Ferrari 212 Export Barchetta that completed seventh within the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans. The worth paid was $3.9 million.

1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/6C Alloy bearing chassis no. 08157 – Photograph credit score: Mecum

Mecum bought a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/6C Alloy for $3.4 million, whereas RM Sotheby’s bought a 1965 275 GTB/6C Alloy for $3.3 million. Each vehicles characteristic the long-nose physique by Scaglietti that Ferrari launched in mid-1965 to cut back entrance elevate at excessive speeds.

It was a bumper week for traditional Ferraris, as even a badly broken 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider Collection I by Pininfarina bought for nearly $2 million at an RM Sotheby’s sale. Regardless of basically being a crumpled husk of a automotive, somebody snapped it up for $1,875,000. It was one among 20 classic Ferraris bought final week in Monterey that have been broken throughout 2004’s Hurricane Charley.