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20 cars that sold for £76 million

  • Another auction, another bloody Ferrari. Last weekend in Arizona, two auction houses sold lots of old cars. Actually, a shedload of old cars, with both RM Auctions and Gooding & Company racking up a whopping $115m - or £76 million in real money - over the course of two days.

    So what do you get when you spend the equivalent of Top Gear's cheese budget on classic metal? A really lovely Ferrari, that's what. Top sale from the weekend was a 1964 Ferrari 250 LM, which sold for $9.6m (£6.3m) to make it the most valuable car ever sold in Arizona's auction history.

    Over at RM, most of the top ten sales were Ferraris - stuff that ranged from the 250 LM through 288 GTO to 275 GTB/4 via FXX (above) - but lower down the pecking order there were things like a 1984 Audi Sport Quattro, a 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Shooting Brake and a 1971 Merc 280 SE Cabriolet.

    Gooding's top ten on the other hand, had a bit more variety on offer, taking in such cars as a Porsche 906 Carrera 6, that lovely BMW 507 we showed you last week, and a Mercedes 300 SL Roadster. Oh, and a Miura.

    So, what we've cunningly done is to make a sort of Super Top Twenty, representing the most expensive cars sold over the weekend. Have a click through, and then pity all of your life choices that meant you couldn't afford any of these. We have.

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  • RM Auctions: 1964 Ferrari 250 LM (Chassis 5899 GT), $9,625,000

  • Gooding & Company: 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider, $7,700,000

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  • Gooding: 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Series I Coupe Aerodinamico, $4,070,000

  • RM: 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 (Chassis 10451), $3,657,500

  • RM: 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Spider (Chassis 16793), $3,300,000

  • RM: 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB (Chassis 08603), $2,750,000

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  • RM: 1984 Ferrari 288 GTO (Chassis ZFFPA16B000055237), $2,750,000

  • Gooding: 1968 Ferrari 330 GTS, $2,420,000

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  • RM: 1966 Ferrari 275 GTS (Chassis 08313), $2,365,000

  • Gooding: 1966 Porsche 906 Carrera 6, $1,980,000

  • Gooding: 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, $1,925,000

  • RM: 1971 Lamborghini Miura SVJ (Chassis 4892), $1,897,500

  • Gooding: 1959 BMW 507 Series II, $1,815,000

  • Gooding: 1988 Porsche 959 Sport, $1,705,000

  • RM: 1962 Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series II (Chassis 3633 GT), $1,705,000

  • RM: 1965 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS (Chassis 904-107), $1,650,000

  • RM: 2005 Ferrari FXX Evoluzione (Chassis ZFFHX62X000145369), $1,622,500

  • Gooding: 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS, $1,595,000

  • Gooding: 1960 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, $1,567,000

  • Gooding: 1964 Shelby 289 Cobra, $1,155,000

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