All eyes in the vintage car world were on Paris, France Friday for the Articurial Auction of the Roger Baillon collection at Retromobile. The salesroom was packed with over 3500 people while the 59 lots were sold, when all was said and done the sale total reached 28.5 million dollars. All of the lots went for well over the initial estimates, including the 1961 Ferrari 250 SWB California Spider that set a world record price.

The public exhibition, open for most of the week attracted close to 15,000 visitors a day, many of who had made the trip to attend from around the world. The cars were artfully displayed while being highlighted with spotlights and an interior light. The French Musée de l’automobile de Compiègne, by right of pre-emption, purchased lot 33, the 1936 Panhard-Levassor Dynamic X76 coupé junior for $41,865 – 37,000€.

The rest of the sales figures in listed in Euros can be found here. Many more photos of the collection can be viewed here in earlier posts. The fascinating video Articurial Motorcars produced showing the collection as found after decades of storage can be found at the bottom of this post.

The five highlights of the sale were the following lots with the commission added: