Equipment
4,390/352hp, 5-speed, painted nose panel, popup headlights, chrome spoke Borrani wire wheels, XWX tires, Becker Mexico cassette stereo, Borletti air conditioning, power windows.
Condition
Very good older paint, barely used upholstery, clean engine compartment showing some age but few miles. Represented as 40,182 miles from new, once owned by Hollywood director Sydney Pollack (“Out of Africa” among many others) and the subject of a colorful expropriation in Mexico in 1981. Most recently restored in 2001 then cosmetically freshened in 2010. A quite exceptionally well-documented and meticulously maintained Daytona Spider.
Market commentary
And a regular auction feature since 1999 when RM sold it at Monterey for $308,000. By 2008 the restoration had been freshened and it was a post-block sale at Gooding’s Scottsdale auction for $1,290,000. Despite the restoration aging when it was sold by Gooding at Scottsdale again in 2020 it brought $1,930,000. In the 23 years since it was first sold at auction it has added only 904 miles to the odometer, qualifying it as an artifact more than a high speed driver’s car and with that mileage it is unlikely it has ever been enjoyed on an open road tour event. The bidders were surprisingly reticent in choosing this point at which to stop, but kept cool heads and had it sold at an all-in price of some $2.4 million it would not have been considered expensive.