Earlier this year at an auction in Arizona, a 1956 Ferrari 410 Superamerica Series 1 Coupe sold for $3.3 million-a million dollars higher than analysts had predicted. Maybe they should have expected more. At the time of its birth the Superamerica was the fastest car Ferrari had ever built, with a 4.9-liter V-12 engine cranking out 340hp and a top speed of 150mph. Only 16 were made. The January sale was just the sixth time the car had changed hands-but it boasts an extraordinary history, owned at times by an Italian race car driver, a Du Pont heir and the man who sold Kurt Cobain that fatal gun.
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