Thesale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. 250GTO – 1962. 24 March 1962: a blue metallic (with central white stripe) 250 GTO entered by Scuderia Nart and driven by Phill Hill and Olivier Gendebien, made its racing debut at 12h Sebring, winning its 3 litre GT Class and finishing 2nd Overall – this is just the first of the several successes achieved by this car conceived from Enzo Beforethe 1962 season, Ferrari had already built nearly 200 competition cars based on the 250 GT.1 Starting in 1954, with the 250 Europa GT, the engine, chassis and body of the 250 series evolved into a greater product each year and it “was the production car that universally spread the Ferrari name the world over.” 1 The 250 GT's ultimate Afterposting a DNF at Le Mans in 1962, Ferrari is said to have rebuilt the car with the 250's original 3.0-liter, the key to this car receiving the 250 name and a simultaneous 3765GT chassis Whenyou think of how much the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO can fetch at auction, it makes you wish you had a time machine to go back and buy See more Itcost an extra $263.30, and just 751 were built. 06: Least powerful. Today, a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO is the most valuable car in the world. One sold privately in the past couple of years for a reported $70,000,000. The most valuable Pontiac GTO is the 1969 Judge convertible with the 370-hp Ram Air IV engine. The original GTO badge said Itsrarity (and, perhaps, its status as the first model built) also added to the equation, and in light of the new world auction record set by a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at Bonhams, chassis 06701's $26.4 million selling price was understandable. Originally owned by Steve McQueen, this 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 sold for $10.175 million. Photo by author. The250 GTOs regularly command probably the highest prices for any cars sold. because this 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became the most expensive car ever sold at auction this weekend at an RM Sotheby ZfLW.