One-off AMG GT3 Hitting Monterey Car Week For Charity, Aug. 23
Never-raced Mercedes-AMG GT3 was built to celebrate AMG’s 50th anniversary of building high-performance Benzes.
The Mercedes-AMG GT3 is one of the most dominant GT cars competing today. Fifty teams campaigning 106 examples since the first took its place in the starting grid in 2016 have given Mercedes-AMG 85 overall wins and 168 top spots in the car’s class out of over 450 starts to date, including victories at the 24 Hours of Dubai, 24 Hours of Nürburgring, and the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.
On August 25, one AMG GT3 will score a double victory without ever turning a single lap: one for the winning bidder, and one for disadvantaged children. RM Sotheby’s will be offering this 2017 GT3 at auction during its annual visit to Monterey, California for Monterey Car Week.
This GT3, chassis no. 50, is a one-off built to celebrate AMG’s 50th anniversary, and has never turned a lap at all. It has lots of wonderful features other GT3s don’t have, from the bright chrome paintwork on the carbon fiber panels, polished to mirror-like perfection, to the 650-horsepower 6.2-liter V8 free of its FIA restrictions on power through hardware and software mods.
The GT3’s auction will not only give its new owner a race car to tear Laguna Seca up, of course, but will also give disadvantaged children and adolescents a better of quality of life through sports. Mercedes-AMG paired up with the non-profit Laureus Sport for Good Foundation back in 2002, establishing their “Passion for Good” initiative, which has seen plenty of money raised with every kilometer traveled by Mercedes-AMG factory teams in the FIA GT3 class.
Offered without reserve for a price range of $400,000 to $600,000, the proceeds for the GT3’s auction will go to Laureus to help the non-profit “use the power of sports to support disadvantaged children worldwide.” Helping others and coming away with an awesome Mercedes-AMG GT3? That’s a win-win if ever there was one.
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