Sotheby’s Motorsport (SOMO) had its best sales day for as long as I can remember with $2m+ of sales. If we look at the causation, could it be the cars were live to view at Monterey? Very possibly. Great day for them, congrats.

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We've actually seen this 1991 BMW 318i Touring before.

It was listed back in 2024 and failed to sell at $5,700. Yesterday it came back, this time no reserve, and sold for $11,500.

Obviously two years have passed, so I'm not going to pretend this is a perfect comparison. But what I found interesting is what's happened to the car in between.

The dual-fuel propane setup it had last time is gone, including the tank and associated hardware, so it's now back to being a much more straightforward gasoline-powered E30 Touring. For me, that's already made the car considerably easier to sell.

But I also think the seller, did a fine job this time around. This is still a 183k-mile car with corrosion, bubbling paint, a previous respray and plenty of things you could pick holes in. Rather than trying to make it sound better than it is, they represented it properly, answered the questions that came up and let the car speak for itself.

And maybe that's the more interesting part of this result. Not every car needs thousands spent making it perfect before it goes to auction. Sometimes you remove the stuff that's likely to scare buyers away, properly represent everything that's left and give people enough confidence to bid.

RNM at $5,700 in 2024. Sold for $11,500 yesterday.

I'd say the seller earned their money on this one.

Since we're talking about cars coming back to auction, here's another one that's a little more ambitious.

This 2007 Porsche 997 GT3 first appeared on BaT back in 2024, when it sold for $130,000 with around 36k miles. Fast forward to just six weeks ago and it appeared again, this time on duPont REGISTRY, where the current seller bought it for $165,000 plus around $8k in fees.

And now it's back again. This time it's on PCarMarket, showing just over 40k miles and currently sitting at $99,997 with five days still to go. The seller hasn't exactly hidden what he's doing either. Someone in the comments pointed out that he'd only bought it a month or so ago, and the seller confirmed they've added around 200 miles driving it back and forth to their Porsche shop and to a few Cars & Coffee events.

So unless I'm missing something, this looks like a pretty straightforward attempt to make a quick buck.

To be fair, they haven't simply parked it in the showroom and immediately thrown it back online. The seller says Gaswerks went through the car, it received an oil service, the A/C was recharged and a new lower front valance is going on before it leaves. It's also a pretty appealing spec to begin with: six-speed manual, PCCBs, Mezger 3.6, Öhlins coilovers, GT3 RS clutch and flywheel, pinned coolant lines and 40k miles, so it's a GT3 you could actually go out and use.

The question is whether there's enough room in it.

At $165k plus roughly $8k in buyer fees, the seller was already into the car for around $173k before servicing, transport or anything else. Presumably he'd like to come out the other side with rather more than that.

Can he? Possibly. We've still got five days to find out, and 997 GT3s certainly aren't lacking for attention at the moment. But buying a car publicly at auction and then putting it straight back onto another auction platform six weeks later is never the easiest way to make money. Everyone can see exactly what you paid.

I'll be very interested to see whether the market gives him a profit for those 200 miles, or an expensive six-week GT3 rental.

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