Weird weekend: auction bonanza

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This weekend hundreds, no - thousands, of classics will change owners with one of several auctions that will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s impossible to discuss them all here, so let’s just pick out some of our own favourites. This beautiful Apal GT is one of them - definitely one of the prettier kit cars of the 1960s hailing from Europe. With instigator Edmond Péry being a bit of a famous Formula V-driver, the choice of chassis was none other than logical: the good old VW Beetle of course. However, several builders/owners decided to shoehorn a Porsche engine into the back. Question is: does that make this gorgeous Apal a Porsche? We’re not sure. According to RM it just came from a Porsche collection. And before that it spent another 30-odd years in the hands of another Porsche-fan. “A must-have for any collector of Porsches and its many interesting variants”, they say now. Well, we’ve seen Devin-Porsches and Fiberfab-Porsches come by in the last few years, and they make more money than the average sixties kit which happens to come with Porsche-mill and is not being marketed as just that. What’s next? A Meyers-Porsche? A Bradley-Porsche? Let’s just call them what they are.

But we get carried away here. Speaking about odd creations – Barrett-Jackson will be hammering off a substantially weird 1970 Chevy Corvette with fur headlining and matching telephone – built for Farrah Fawcett and known as the Foxy Vette! It’s not alone, among the hundreds of lots Barrett-Jackson alone has on offer the Supervan – the Van that American teenagers dreamt of in the 1970s will go under the block, too. Gooding and Co offer its European counterpart – a Fiat 600 Mirafiori which is believed to be a sole survivor. They also have a Healey 100 with striking fastback lines – a private effort of turning the 100 into a coupe, but what a nice one! Or how about this quintessentially strange Ferrari 330 ‘Shark nose’ with Russo and Steele. Oh – there’s just too much to choose from and it's impossible to see them all. Let us know if you snap up anything odd over there.

(Words Jeroen Booij, pictures courtesy various auction houses)
 

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