Granturismo Collection/Jon Hunt up for Auction

[mattf93]

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/lf22

I’m hoping PH do an article on this lot



It’s the collection of Jon Hunt, who owned Foxtons the estate agents in London. Also had the YouTube channel tax the rich which used to do some funny videos: https://youtu.be/Z-4v4I7Gzk0

Wonder what the total Lot value will reach - will be interested to see antibodies thoughts but there’s all sorts of things to like there - as much as I like modern things the Miura stands out to me.

Ballpark £20m?

[Guyr]

Great cars, but in their videos they treated them really badly........

[ditchvisitor]

Looking at the prices on the cars surely it’s more like £30+ easily!

[f1ten]

He is certainly calling the market. An extremely savvy investor.

[MDL111]

argh, one of my favorite cars the XJR-15 also clearly out of reach now judging by that estimate

[SydneyBridge]

Can this be watched online does anyone know?

[johnnyreggae]

There's usually a link on the website - I doubt this sale is any different

[GT4RS]

That’s clearly a investors scared of the falling market, whatever he can sell now will save him a lot of money in a few months.

Falling knife

[m4tti]

GT4RS said:

That’s clearly a investors scared of the falling market, whatever he can sell now will save him a lot of money in a few months.

Falling knife

What… I’m not sure someone worth over 1 billion will be particularly bothered if a few of the collection, drops in value.

[mattf93]

GT4RS said:

That’s clearly a investors scared of the falling market, whatever he can sell now will save him a lot of money in a few months.

Falling knife

Or Perhaps estate planning? Or ill Health? Maybe wants to fund a new venture?

Can be a whole host of reasons to why they are selling

[f1ten]

He is keeping some of his gems for sure like clk gtr but I would not classify this as some of his collection... It would appear to be the bulk of it. All the wholly grail Ferraris Enzo kafnetc.

[SydneyBridge]

Live ish video on sothebys website now

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf22

[SydneyBridge]

First car, 1974 Rolls Royce, estimate at £20 - 30k, goes for £250k



Should mention, was owned by Freddie Mercury

[SydneyBridge]

F40, 'only' £1,250,000

[Drclarke]

GT4RS said:

That’s clearly a investors scared of the falling market, whatever he can sell now will save him a lot of money in a few months.

Falling knife

So why isn’t he selling his houses then too?

It’s because your assumption is wrong

[Fessia fancier]

SydneyBridge said:

F40, 'only' £1,250,000

Paint it blue and an easy 800k profit!

[rat rod]

Fessia fancier said:

SydneyBridge said:

F40, 'only' £1,250,000

Paint it blue and an easy 800k profit!

[m4tti]

I listened to some of the auction, I don’t know why, but it almost feels sad to see the collection broken up. I’d love to know why this path has been chosen, I hope it has nothing to do with I’ll health or any kind of estate consolidation.

I can only imagine the feeling for a petrolhead pulling this assortment of cars together.

[Truckosaurus]

m4tti said:

...I’d love to know why this path has been chosen...

It could just be a case of having got bored of it. With that many cars you're not going to get the time to drive them all regularly, so might as just keep a couple of the more usable cars and do frequent trips in them.

[birdcage]

Same timing as selling Foxtons, nobodies fool