Celeb pays record price for 1961 dream machine

Your starter for ten: Guess which British celeb paid out a world record £5.5m for this beautiful 1961 Ferrari California Spyder 250 GT, previously owned by Hollywood legend James Coburn? Answer after the break…

Drum roll please…

And the answer is…

Chris Evans

… Yeah, we were disappointed too - Evans may be absolutely loaded but he’s not the glamourous name we had hoped might invest in such an obviously glamourous car. Ginger bloke with glasses in a 1961 Spyder? That doesn’t quite fit. Still, at least it wasn’t Jay Kay.

Evans’ outrageously lavish purchase broke the previous record for a Ferrari, set at the same Maranello sale last year when £4.7million was paid for the Ferrari 330 Testarossa which won the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race in 1962.