Lately, my posting has been best described as 'sparse.' This past week has been quite busy for me, but I should be back on track now. I'll start my more consistent posting schedule with a series on the world's most expensive cars.
Now that title, 'world's most expensive car' can easily be haggled over to no end. What are we defining as 'most expensive?' Highest cost when new? Greatest expense to build? Most valuable now? Well, I'll use all those as possible answers and cite an example for each one.
I'll start with a car that was considered the most expensive car of its day, when it was available for purchase in 1921. The car I am referring to is the strikingly rare
Heine-Velox. Built in San Francisco by piano magnate Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine, the Heine-Velox was a car built well ahead of its time. It featured a V12 engine built by Weidely, a hydraulic brake system by Lockheed, side mounted luggage trunks and a canted dashboard designed to hide the gear shifter, handbrake and steering column.All this innovation (and luxury) came at a cost though, with the price of the massive, 1
48" wheelbase car coming in between $17,000 and $20,000. To put that into perspective, a new Rolls Royce 40/50 cost about $10,000 and a Ford Model T still cost less than $500. Buyers were hard to come by, however, and
subsequently only five cars were ever built.One of them, the vehicle pictured here, can be viewed at the Blackhawk Collection, where it is currently for sale for $300,000.
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I don't know if you've run across it, but I wrote an article on the history of the marque over 20 years ago. The one at Blackhawk was given to a Heine family member, where it eventually ended up in the backyard as a chicken coop. I lost all trace of the car, until I had a lead that the car had been acquired by some eccentric private equipment operator, but I never actually contacted him. A couple of years ago the car appeared out of the blue, "restored", and has been on ebay, the Imperial Palace collection and now Black Hawk.
Harrah's for years had the best known model, the Crown Victoria, that went back east when the bulk of the collection was sold. There were ( or are) two more in southern California that were part of the Cars of the Stars collection, lonf defunct.
Heine did make some early vehicles around 1904-06 and 07-08, but haven't been able to find out if any survive.
I had the great pleasure to know his daughter, a real gem!
Heine had an estate out in Sunol, worth looking at if you have the chance.
Post script:
I looked up HV and found that the Victoria that was in Harrah's collection is now in some hotel resort collection in Alaska! For a long time this was the only example that was in running condition. The other two in southern California were not really completed.
greetings, i manage the Fountainhead Collection in Fairbanks Alaska. we do won the Victoria Touring car and just finished a restoration on the car and will be showing it at Pebble Beach this weekend, then its on to Kirkland Concours next month. this will give folks a chance to see it before we bring it to Alaska.
willy Vinton
you can see the car on our web site onhttp://www.fountainheadhotels.com/auto/
we keep an active blog site and you can email with questions as well.
thanks
willy
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