With over 85% of the 239 cars sold, including the very exciting 1952 Jaguar C-Type, and a current sales total exceeding 34 million dollars

Phil Hill’s son, Derek, drove the historic 1952 Jaguar C-type, s/n XKC-007 to an auction world record at Monterey, selling for 2,530,000 dollars at RM’s Sports & Classics of Monterey event in California.
 
XKC-007 was one of the first C-Types delivered to North America. In 1952, a young Phil Hill – then just 25 –  drove the car at Elkhart Lake to claim the C-Type’s first North American victory, before going on to achieve further success at Torrey Pines that same year.
 
'With over 85% of the 239 cars sold, including the very exciting 1952 Jaguar C-Type, and a current sales total exceeding 34 million dollars, we are pleased with the weekend’s results which reflect our consistently strong sell-through performance year to date,' said Ian Kelleher, President & Chief Operating Officer of RM Auctions.
 
Additional top-sellers at RM’s Sports & Classics of Monterey event included two other million-dollar cars - a race-bred 1955 Aston Martin DB3S, which brought an impressive 1,980,000 dollars, and a stunning 1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Disappearing Top Convertible Coupe for 1,430,000 dollars.
 
A further highlight was the sale of a factory-original 2005 Ford GT supercar, offered on behalf of the Ford Motor Company and selling for 181,500 dollars with a portion of the sale proceeds benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). To coincide with the offering, Mr Edsel B Ford II, Board Director, Ford Motor Company and his son, Henry, joined a group of local Monterey JDRF youth ambassadors to witness its sale.