How much would you pay for a car? $50,000? $500,000? One person spent over $13 million to obtain a gorgeous and rare 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS Teardrop Coupe. It sold earlier this month at the Gooding and Company auction at Amelia Island. The final hammer price for the car was $13,425,000, making it the most valuable French car ever sold at auction and a world record for the marquee.
The T150-C-SS chassis, number 90107, underpins bodywork designed by Figoni et Falaschi. According to the auction house's research, the firm designed between 10 to 20 Teardrop Coupes, and they were built in two flavors – the notchback Coupé Jeancart and the fastback Modéle New York. The Modéle New York body, of which only two were built, features all-aluminum construction, and this is the only example surviving with its bodywork intact.
