Equipment
3,168/150hp V8, 4-speed, Rudge centerlock wheels, Pirelli tires, two tops, multiband radio, tool kit, owner's handbook and bill of sale to Herman Bold.
Condition
Awful, peeling, blistering old repaint. Worn, discolored upholstery with a pulled seam on the driver's seat cushion. Aged and tired barn find but sound and complete. Video introduction in the barn and at Lime Rock, an important barn find from a shed in Philadelphia where it has been secreted since it was acquired by Herman Bold in 1979 for $22,000 43 years ago.
Market commentary
This is a rat. It also is a wonderful rat, started from time to time and driven out of its shed under its own power after decades in limbo. It got the Audrain collectors' juices flowing, but they couldn't match the phone bidder who bought it. Now the new owner is going to have to decide what to do with it having paid generously but not egregiously for the privilege of owning it.