Condition
Michele Alboreto's 1987 Ferrari team car with indifferent results. Orderly but aged and not cleaned up for the auction with oily road grime all over under the covers. Museum displayed for years and in need of comprehensive overhaul and preparation before it can hope to be run.
Market commentary
The last F1/87 sold at auction was ex-Gerhard Berger s/n 099 at RM's Maranello auction in 2008 which brought about half as much in US$, a third as much in Euros (247,500) as in this post-block closed transaction. Its 880hp twin turbo 90 degree V-6 is sufficiently complicated that restoration becomes an epic and expensive proposition and it is probably destined to remain an expensive piece of collection art.