Yahoo Finance Jerry Seinfeld Just Sold 17 Rare Cars for $22 Million
Will Jerry Seinfeld stop driving around with comedians and drinking coffee?
The legendary comic--and host of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee--put 18 of his rare cars up for auction this weekend and sold 17 of them, reports the Daily News.
The cars sold were antique Porsches and Volkswagens, including a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder--the same model that James Dean was driving during his fatal crash in 1955. The Spyder alone sold for $5.3 million, while Seinfeld brought in just over $22 million total from the sale.
Why is Seinfeld selling his cars? According to a statement, he just doesn’t have enough time to devote to their care and wants to make another car lover happy:
I've loved being entrusted with their care, and I'm proud of the level to which we have brought each and every one of these wonderful machines. Honestly, if I had unlimited time, space and attention span I would never sell one of them. And the reason I wanted to bid these cars farewell in this way is really just to see the look of excitement on the faces of the next owners who I know will be out of their minds with joy that they are going to get to experience them.
Seinfeld is known in the auto world as passionate car collector. In a statement, David Gooding, president and founder of car auction company Gooding & Co. calls him “the definitive Porsche connoisseur.”
See original article on Fortune.com
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