Bertone Collection bought

Italian car club secures all 79 Bertone museum-pieces for €3.44 million

Werds Massimo Delbò

THE AUTOMOTOCLUB STORICO ITALIANO, Italy’s largest private classic car club, with more than 100,000 members, has bought all 79 cars in the Bertone Collection. Last month Octanereported that the collection was being offered in one lot following Bertone’s bankruptcy, and that it was feared it would disappear from view or one day be relieved of its protected status (a condition of sale is that it remains in Italy and can’t be broken up). Most of these fears were dispelled when ASI revealed that it had made a successful bid of €3.44 million, 61% above the reserve price, against four other interested parties. ASI’s president, Roberto Loi, commented afterwards: ‘I’m very proud, not only because we have saved a piece of Italian history, but also because, being from Turin, I would have been…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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