V12 desk heads up for public sale with a top-end estimate dangerously near £50k
Revealed: 06 Dec 2022
The RM Sotheby’s Miami sale kicks off on 10 December, and opposite to what you would possibly assume, it’s not simply ludicrously uncommon hypercars and unbelievably costly youngtimers that’ll cross the block.
There’s additionally some furnishings. Or extra particularly, there’s a desk that’ll be excellent for the petrolhead’s Christmas dinner – as a result of at its base is a wonderful Ferrari V12 engine with six twin Weber carbs and mounting factors that rise upwards from the exhaust headers. Ooft.
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If we have been inside designers, that is the kind of factor that we’d describe as a ‘assertion piece’ for the centre of a room. That is most likely why we’re not inside designers. Nonetheless, RM Sotheby’s expects the glass-topped desk to fetch a good whack at public sale, with a information worth of between $30,000 and $60,000. That prime estimate works out at round £49,000 – or the identical worth as a brand new Honda Civic Kind R with simply a few choices.
So right here’s a query for you – new king of sizzling hatchbacks or a chromed V12 desk? It’s a troublesome choice…
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