Le Mans-Winning Matra sells for over 1.1 million Euros

May 19, 2005 Bonhams' Grandes Marques a Monaco Sale of classic, historic and collectible cars surpassed all records this year with 1972 Monaco Grand Prix-winning racing driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise's personal collection of cars leading the catalogue entries, together with fabulous Lancias from the Italian collection of Silvano Cima and supercars from a Monegasque collection. The star Lot sold was the Beltoise collection Matra-Simca MS670B sports-racing 'Barquette' with 3-litre V12-cylinder power in which Beltoise's team-mates, Henri Pescarolo and Gerard Larrousse won the 1973 Le Mans 24-Hours endurance racing classic. This magnificent and historic 220mph projectile was passed from Matra to Jean-Pierre Beltoise and it has since been lovingly preserved over many years and restored within his personal collection. The car sold to a British collector for the world record Matra price of 1,105,000 Euros.

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