QUOTE I think Philippe can confirm this, but as far as I know the highest price paid for a vintage slot was $12,500 for a MIB Cox Chaparral 2E, magnesium chassis version. That was at the height of the Japanese economy, when they had lots of disposable income. I don't know if that price was ever confirmed, and it seems the price would be more like $5,000 these days, or about $1,000 for a good used example, without the box...
Don is correct, actually two of the MIB kits sold, one for $12K (and is now in the LASCM collection) and another for $10K, also in the LASCM collection today. This was in 1998 at the very top of values.
However, not a SINGLE, INTACT kit has been available ever since, and while two or three have been offered and sold, one for $3800.00, the other for $5400.00, they were not at all in the same condition as the aforementioned two examples. While a loose car assembled from the kit is relatively common and will hardly bring a grand today (mostly because 95% were assembled by little barbarians), I have to see yet another intact, pristine kit on eBay and it has been 14 years since the last one.
Actually I believe that the highest ever paid for a slot car (but not at auction) was for a Cox factory prototype of the Ford MK2 with the only real box known to exist, that went to Japan for a cool $19K, with an added unfinished, vacuum formed in white styrene factory prototype body of the Cox Chaparral 2D.
I can see the values of a C70 (obviously not at £12000 as stated, that is a bit ridiculous in a £3500 realistic market) or a Cox Chaparral 2E "Mag" kit (both were TOYS and never pretended to be anything else), but as far as a pretentious "limited edition" of a Popemobile 250 GTO by the world champion of special editions, the Fly boys, that amounts to utter imbecility and delusion and if indeed, a transaction is/has been made, a large financial loss for someone really dumb.
My opinion, but I am trying very hard not to be that stupid with my hard-earned cash and would rather be at the selling end of deals like that...