For readers who aren’t acquainted with Jim Click, Jr., I’m much obliged to tell you he is the third generation Click to head an automotive dealer network in the U.S., with sixteen dealerships scattered across California and Arizona. When he isn’t busy doing businessman things, Jim is a petrolhead with a collection of cars that would make grown men scream like little girls. The cars we will be talking about today are but a part of Jim Click, Jr.’s prized collection.
To be offered at auction in Monterey on August 19, the following seven cars typify some of, if not the very best of their respective breeds. The showstopper is the 1966 Ford GT40 pictured bang on in the center of the group. One of 31 Mark I road-going cars, the old-school GT40 wears chassis number P/1061 and has been raced across the country at motorsport venues such as Palm Springs, Riverside, and Laguna Seca. The estimate is anything between $3.75 and $4.25 million.
The #89 Shelby Cobra “features an unrivaled period racing history with countless wins to its name, and significantly, has not claimed a single DNF in its illustrious career.” The Cobra in question is a 289 Competition model, the bearer of chassis number CSX 2473.
The projected selling price ranges from $2.2 to $2.6 million. In the opposite corner, there’s another Shelby 289 Cobra, bearer of chassis number CSX 2326. Click owned this troublemaker on three occasions in the past four decades. Estimate? Up to $1.4 million.
The pair of Kar Kraft Mustangs consists of a 1969 Boss 302 Trans Am and a 1970 Boss 302 Trans Am. Dan Gurney raced the 1969 model, while the 1970 mode was the Bud Moore team car campaigned by Peter Gregg in the 1971 season. Both are expected to fetch anything between $1 and $1.3 million. The Mustang with the red body shell (not pictured in the photograph above) is a 1966 Shelby GT350. This bad boy is the 1970 SCCA B-production Southern Pacific Division Champion and is estimated to go for up to $450,000.
You can check out all cars in the gallery and video below or on the RM Sotheby’s website.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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