But Simon Kidston, the Bonhams & Brooks representative in Geneva, said the car to be sold -- chassis number 4293 GT -- is one of only 39 ever built (all in the early 60's), has never been in a major crash and still has its original three-liter, V-12 engine.
A vintage car enthusiast, in 2012 he reportedly paid $35 million for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, one of only 39 ever built.
HEP seminar: Maria Monasor, University of Chicago, "Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory" The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest instrument (with an extension of 3000 km2) ever built to study ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
The only portion of Route 17S ever built ran from Penns Grove to Salem.
Yet many collectors and car fans had their eye on RM's sale of the Ferrari 275 N.A.R.T. Spider, one of only 10 ever built.
In terms of tractive effort, the class was the most powerful 4-4-0 ever buint in Britain, and were the only 4-4-0 type to be given the power classification of 5P by British Railways.
That makes this the quickest and fastest 911 ever built, and the quickest and fastest mass-production Porsche — after the limited-production 918 Spyder, which posted a 2.5-second sprint to 60 and a top track speed of 214 mph.
The arrival of Discovery has been a boon for the museum, which was opened in 2003 but still lives in the shadow of its sister facility on the Mall despite housing the Enola Gay, one of the few remaining SR-71 Blackbirds and one of the 20 Concordes ever built.
The 14-cylinder engine turns the longest propeller shaft (130 metres) ever built, at the end of which is the largest propeller, weighing in at 130 tonnes.
Out of 10.5 km of proposed roading into the pristine forests, only 2km were ever built.
