Where will the bidding settle? It’s always tough to say with cars of this provenance. Auctions can be an emotional thing, particularly when a couple of moneyed one-per-centers get it in their heads that theyThat’s what happened the last time this car went under the auctioneer’s hammer, selling for US$10.175 million in 2014 . At the time, talking heads placed the car’s value at around half that amount, meaning the McQueen connection was worth about US$5 million to someone on that particular day.
But if history is any indication, it only takes a couple of hard-headed and excited bidders to blow that number out of the water. We’ll find out in just a few months.