A professionally restored example, accompanied by $24,000 in receipts for recent work, brought just $81,400 at auction last year.
This car was said by the auction company to be the most comprehensively and authentically restored example extant, wearing an $80,000 paint job in attractive aquamarine blue.
Golden Hawks are ordinarily hard pressed to make $50,000, but the hammer price of this superbly restored example handily tripled the accepted market value.
Among the show's highlights are a restored example of the world's first mass-produced built-in kitchen, a rare Tatra T87 streamlined car, paintings by Fernand Léger and Piet Mondrian and, of course, chairs galore.
From the car's front seat, two German women snapped photos of the ornately ornamented 1887 house, a Los Angeles landmark famous both as a pristinely restored example of this period architecture and also as the set for the television show "Charmed".
Also in the city are the José de Alencar Theatre, a restored example of Art Nouveau style, the President Castelo Branco Mausoleum, which honours Ceará's most famous national figure, and Castelão Stadium, one of the largest football (soccer) stadiums in the country.
Herrmann, who still lives in Stuttgart, was to join Moss in demonstration runs over the weekend before the Goodwood crowds with one of six surviving Mercedes-owned W196s – a gleaming, immaculately restored example that drew crowds of spectators to a tented paddock only a stone's throw from the auction marquee.
A fully restored example sold for $39,100 at Christie's Pebble Beach auction in 1999, and that sale is the primary reason we have seen at least one at each Monterey auction since.
On the northern outskirts of the city, Crownhill Fort is a well restored example of a "Palmerston's Folly".
Properly restored examples of popular models will continue to go up in price.
Early Thunderbirds have always been popular with collectors, so there are many restored examples at premium prices.
