Equipment
331/310hp, column shift 3-speed manual, wire wheels, BFG Silvertown tires, woodrim steering wheel, original radio.
Condition
From the Gateway Automobile Museum Collection. Several large paint cracks on the right front but the finish looks good aside from that. Good chrome. Very good, very lightly worn interior. An important, rare American sports car restored a while ago and lightly used.
Market commentary
The catalog credits Bill Burden for specifying this car from inception with high compression heads, polished connecting rods and the 4-carb log manifold, but Bill Burden’s history of specifying and commissioning highly specialized, unique, fast road cars stretches back to the Thirties. Seeing Bill Burden as an original owner is a guarantee that the car he bought is not just expensive, it also is blindingly fast for its day. Having put that on the record, this Cunningham sold for $374,000 at RM Monterey in 2006, then $341,000 at Gooding Pebble Beach in 2012. Its odometer showed 65 miles in 2012 and only 80 miles today but it still remains in nearly spectacularly great condition even two decades after it was restored for Jerry Sauls. It is hard to separate the history from the price it brought today, but this is a whopping great increment for a car that got the attention it deserved both in the Gateway Automobile Museum collection and in Broad Arrow’s catalog. As expensive as it is, the new owner can honor its history and specifications while being comfortable with the price.