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This rare BMW roadster with bids over $1.5 million may become the most expensive car ever sold on auction site Bring a Trailer

Tim LevinDec 6, 2020, 20:42 IST

Many consider the 507 to be one of the best-looking BMWs ever built - and its rarity makes it highly coveted and extremely valuable.

BMW planned to mass produce the 507, but the project ended up being too expensive, so it stopped at 252 cars built from 1956 to 1960.

They tend to bring in millions at auction, and a 1957 model sold for roughly $5 million in 2018.

This particular car was sold new in Rome and spent most of its life in Italy, before being imported to the US in 2000.

It's gone through lots of work to bring it to showroom condition.

The seller says it's one of only 15 507s delivered from the factory in black. But the paint isn't original - it was refinished before the car was imported.

The car comes with an optional hardtop, which was also refinished.

The car sports color-matched wheels, and several parts have been rechromed.

The 507's butterscotch-leather interior was reupholstered before it was imported ...

... and its wood-trimmed steering wheel was rebuilt in 2008.

But, according to the listing, the car's mechanicals have stood the test of time better than its interior or its paint job.

The 507's four-speed manual transmission is original ...

... and although its V8 engine was replaced early in the car's life, it hasn't been replaced since.

The car is being sold with a factory tool kit that's housed inside the engine compartment, along with an owner's manual and a service manual.

Its odometer shows approximately 8,500 miles, but the true mileage is unknown, according to the listing.

Multiple cars have bid well into the millions on Bring a Trailer and not met their reserve, so we'll have to wait until Monday to see if this 507 officially breaks any records.

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