Equipment
2996/240hp, 4-speed, hub caps, Michelin XWX tires, Becker Mexico radio, belly pans, tool roll, jack, added fitted luggage.
Condition
Restored by Paul Russell in the 1980s. The paint and chrome don’t look fresh, but they don’t show any major flaws, either. Significant cracking in the window rubber. Visible but forgivable age to the steering wheel, and the lightly worn leather looks a little dry. Gullwings make good event and tour cars (if the weather is cool enough), and this one would be perfectly suited to tour duty.
Market commentary
Sold at the NY Auto Salon and Auction in 1999 for $319,000 in somewhat more fresh restored condition but essentially the same odometer reading, 28,583 miles probably from new. Its first owner was William A.M. Burden II, a scion of the Vanderbilt family and owner of a succession of magnificent automobiles. While Bill Burden can’t be characterized as an early car collector anything that passed through his hands were select, special cars and that provenance attaches to this Gullwing which is appropriately valued in this transaction.