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'Yellowbird' leads $15.3m Air/Water sale
Octane
|July 2025
Broad Arrow's Porsche-themed auction headlined by $4.68m 1989 Ruf CTR
FOR THE SECOND time in as many months, we have witnessed the sale of an original Ruf CTR 'Yellowbird' at auction. Leading Broad Arrow's Porsche-themed Air/Water sale in California, this particular example was chassis 23 of the 29 built, commanding a final $4,680,000 price. That's some way off the benchmark $5.5m figure attained by the ultra-low-mileage Gooding Christie's car in Amelia Island, but was still within the $4.5-5.5m estimate.
This story is from the July 2025 edition of Octane.
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