Naples Wine Auction To Auction Off Rolls-Royce Phantom

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 25th 2006 at 2:02PM

Once again, it's time for the posh auction that is part of the Naples Wine Festival in Florida. The auction is famous for auctioning off some of the priciest cars in the world. This year you can snap up a customized 2006 Bentley Continental Flying Spur or a 2005 Ferrari F430 Spyder as well as yachting packages, trips and plenty of wine lots. The 2006 Rolls-Royce Chardonnay Phantom shown here is being raffled off at $5,000 per ticket. Last year, the companion car, a burgundy Phantom brought in $800,000 at the auction. There will be only 300 tickets sold for the car (for a total of $1.5 million) which has a DVD system with two screens on the backs of the front seats and a wine cooler under the center of the rear seat. It also comes with a nine-liter bottle of 2003 Hartford Court Seascape Chardonnay engraved with a rendition of the car. The Naples Winter Wine Festival always attracts a high-spending crowd and the proceeds raise money for children's charities in Collier County. The auction takes place this Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort at Tiburon in North Naples.

[via Naples News]

Tags: luxury, naples wine festival, NaplesWineFestival, phantom, rolls-royce

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Gunnar Heinrich Jan 25th 2006 10:55PM

The potential gains could be considerable!

$5,000 for the Phantom which retails for $350,000.

The odds are 1:160 - far better than the chances of winning a similar amount from any state lottery.

This reminds me of the Win-This-Car kyosks at Heathrow. The premise was pay X number of pounds sterling and take a pen and highlight the some spot on a given touch screen. The person who picked the closest spot (to the winning spot) would win the car - usually a Ferrari.

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