IMS Museum to auction off historic cars later this year

IMS Museum to auction off historic cars later this year

[westonsudduth]

Pretty sure that when those cars were donated by individuals, they didn’t expect them to be sold off…ear marked for fundraising efforts?

[greggreg]

Those are all some pretty special cars. I bet they get way more than 100 million.

[williamzander]

Sad day they are sold to line a salary for the directors why would you sale those cars that are donated greed .

[markbutler]

This is disgusting. I attended the 500 over 20 years straight and those cars were donated to the museum. Those cars were not donated to be sold for a profit. Tony Hulman must be rolling over in his grave. What's next, sell the 1930s Grand Prix trophy's from Rudolf Caracciola. Great going Roger Penske.

[UVB]

Having Sotherby's handle the auction instead of one of those clown show U.S. vehicle auction houses was a good idea.

[chuckdameron]

That gt 40 if it was raced it will bring at least 4 million because they do not come up very often

[t]

Is the museum a nonprofit or a subsidiary of Penske/IMS?

[FlashDriveFilms]

It does make sense to concentrate the collection. And, those are some astonishing cars. I think they only built like 32 of the 250LM back in the day.

[thomasschwarting]

But you all realize that chances are these cars will probably NEVER be driven again! Sad actually! I mean would someone actually WANT to DRIVE a multimillion dollar car?!

[irishledden]

If they have a 59 El Dorado, I'm on it!

[rtroyer]

Yeah right, selling off part of the collection to “enhance” the collection, because people only care about “Indie” cars and nothing else.

[fw]

Selling off these wonderful cars is a sin. This is just wrong. I’ve been to the museum back in 2014 and the cars they are selling are the ones I was most interested in.