Classic Cars For Sale

=== November 6th 2009 car of the week ===

Ali-bodied, Welch mods, 1996 restored
1956 Austin-Healey 100M BN2

Originally supplied to LA and repatriated from the US and subjected to a ground-up resto with conversion from L to RHD in 1996 since when only 6300m dry miles driven. Reportedly a genuine 100M with outer panels in a...li and 4spd-box plus uprated comp-spec overdrive and 3000 Mk1 front wheel discs, the Sportscar has a Denis Welch polished and ported head converted for unleaded fuel. Check it out in Burton On Trent.Read More

The H&H results at the Haynes Motor Museum in Sparkford in the West Country were headed by a ‘Classic Le Mans’ eligible 1930 Talbot 90, writes Richard Hudson-Evans. The famous Fox & Nicholl Team Car with ‘PL 4’ registration - raced in period in the Brooklands Double Twelve, at Le Mans, in the Irish GP and took part in ...the Tourist Trophy at Ards - raised a nearly £15,000 above forecast £134,750 from a Eurozone buyer.
A 1957 AC Ace Bristol, left to right-hand drive converted post-US racing in period during restoration on repatriation in the late 1980s, attracted £124,300, just over the guide price, and also headed into Continental ownership. This was the fourth Ace to be sold in as many sales by the Northern house.
A claimed to have been 2700 hours in restoration 1954 Jaguar XK120 SE Drophead fetched a close to top estimate £58,300, a 1955 XK140 Roadster £39,600, a 1947 3½-Litre Saloon in single family ownership 1950-2007 close to the desired £34,650, a 1954 XK120 Drophead £30,800, a 1974 E Type Series 3 V12 Roadster £26,950 and a 1960 Mk2 3.8 Saloon an above top estimate £20,350.
During the same Thursday afternoon sale, £42,000 including premium was available for a a JME restored and still super-sharp 1953 Austin-Healey 100 left hooker. £15,400 bought a 1996 Honda NSX auto with worn leather on entry, £12,100 a restored 1971 Citroen SM £12,100 and a built in Birmingham in 1922 Hands 10/20 Tourer for two, which had spent its entire life in the West Country and had been in clearly cosseted vendor ownership since 1960, raised a £1000 over top estimate £11,000 from a gentleman with singularly appropriate surname! Eighty per cent of the cars in the catalogue sold for a premium-inclusive £761,555.
Additionally, the best performing of the 10 motorcycles auctioned here was a 1943-dated and therefore from WW2 Zundapp KS750 Military Combination, missing part of its drive train and requiring restoration, which was sold for £8800 to an East European buyer. A 1954 Ariel Square Four also fared well, selling for £7260. Whilst an album containing some 214 pre-war racing photos raised a £8775.
For their next sale, H&H will return to their home ground of the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, where cars may be viewed during the Tuesday afternoon of 8 December with the auction taking place all afternoon Wednesday 9.
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The annual fixture for Veteran Motor Cars and related automobilia at Bonhams New Bond Street salerooms was once again a near sell-out, reports Richard Hudson-Evans, with only one Veteran failing to hook a buyer from the target audience of automobilists gathered for the weekend’s London to Brighton Run.
The top seller, a...ttracting £66,000 more the guide price, was a 1902 Panhard-Levassor Type A with Rear-Entrance Tonneau open accommodation for four for which £216,000 was forthcoming from a new owner.
Believed to be the oldest surviving Argyll currently licensed for the road, a 1901 dated 5hp Spindle-Sat Rear-Entrance Tonneau fetched £136,800, £26,800 more than forecast £136,800. Reportedly the oldest running car in Portugal, a two owners from new in circa 1899 Hurtu 3½hp with dos-a-dos seating arrangement for four raised the required £79,000.
A 1901 De Dion Bouton 3½hp Voiturette project made a more than double top estimate £44,400. Whilst a 1900 Marot-Garden De Dion-engined Tricycle, also for restoration and which would be eligible for both the high profile Veteran Car Run as well as the Sunbeam Motorcycle Club’s Pioneer Run to Brighton, was taken on for £24,725, close to its top estimate.
Only ten early cars crossed the block in the West End this time compared to fifteen offered here last year. But then rivals RM had sold five out six Veterans in their Battersea Park auction earlier in the week. The fourteen changes of ownership achieved at the two locations with only two lots not selling - an 87.5 per cent sale rate for the sector - indicates therefore that both demand and prices for London to Brighton Run eligible automobiles continue to be strong.
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Among a pair of extremely bullish results for British Fords during the latest Barons sale at Sandown Park was the way over top estimate £36,850 with premium paid for a genuine and road going Ford Lotus Cortina. What makes this valuation in public auction all the more remarkable, reports Richard Hudson-Evans, was the fa...ct that, although in receipt of a clearly well executed down to last nut and bolt restoration which reportedly had taken some tem years to complete, this 1965 Mark 1 Saloon had neither competition history or any celeb provenance on file.
A 35,153 miles from new in 1977 and apparently still original, though clearly much cherished Granada Ghia Mk1 with 3-Litre V6 under bonnet also pulled strongly here to sell for a double reserve £9460. The same afternoon, a close to top estimate £15,950 was forthcoming for an ex-Californian, though UK refurbished 1968 Ford Mustang convertible.
The £38,500 achieved by a 1971 Jaguar E Type Series 3 V12 Roadster with auto-shift - admittedly in receipt of an XK Engineering restoration completed in 1991, since when it had reportedly only done 12,800 miles - was another stellar performance under the hammer. The catalogue cover featured 1954 MG TF, restored in the 1990s, found a just over forecast £15,125 and a very late Series 2, and therefore still with split-screen Morris Minor Convertible with thought to be genuine 34,184 total mileage since new in 1956 raised £9460, virtually the top estimate.
By contrast, an ex-Peter de Savory 1990 Aston Martin Virage Coupe, albeit with matt bonnet paint, landed for £9900 was inexpensive, surely, for a 5-speed manual transmission model which normally command a premium over those with auto-shift. For the record, exactly the same money would have bought you an 11,800 miles since TR Enterprises restoration 1974 Triumph TR6.
Barons next sale at the Surrey racecourse, their final fixture of the 2009 auction season, is set for Tuesday 8 December with pre-sale viewing of the entries available 3-7pm Monday 7.
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Ninety-nine cars, 91 percent of those entered, sold for £1.91m, the automobilia made £97,000 and there were buyers for all the classic bikes in the marquee, reports Richard Hudson-Evans, making the annual Bonhams auction during Beaulieu Autojumble weekend an over £2m occasion which was boosted by Eurozone buyers who sn...apped up 42 per cent of the inventory.
All twenty-eight lots from the late Barry Burnett’s collection - some of them fire damaged projects in mid-restoration - were taken on including a heat-blistered 1960 Facel Vega HK500 Coupe in right-hand drive for £31,050. An early steel-bodied 1950 Jaguar XK120 Roadster in ragged and rusty disorder more than doubled top estimate to sell for £32,200. All XK120 OTS and HK 500 prices are likely to be boosted by these valuations.
The Beaulieu event regular’s part-restored 1932 Delage D8 Chapron-bodied Coupe with Faux Cabriolet roof stripped off topped the results to applause at £112,600 and goes overseas, his 1906 Berliet 40hp Open-Drive Limo £67,500 and the Peter Wigglesworth rebuilt 1908/09 Brasier GP Special £63,100. With a magnificent seven telephone bidders after it, Burnett’s 1935 Bentley 3½-Litre Airline Sports Saloon by Freestone & Webb was eventually secured by a French contestant for £52,100 and a matching numbers 1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Pininfarina Super Sport Cabriolet for restoration was taken on for £43,300.
A 1936 Alvis Speed Twenty-Five Cross & Ellis Tourer for four from the Glen Acres Collection made a bullish £71,900. From other sources, meanwhile, a very nicely restored 1913 Daimler TS38 6.2 Salmons All-Weather Cabrio raised a more than top estimate £67,500 and the ex-King George VI and still remarkably unmolested 1939 Lanchester 32hp Straight-Eight with Royal Hooper Limo coachwork was knocked down to a determined front row bidder who paid £29,325.
A 1935 Bentley 3½-Litre Park Ward Sports Saloon and a 1937 Phantom III Hooper-bodied Rolls with frost damaged engine out of the car sold for £42,200 and £37,800 respectively, both above guide price. A still fairly original 1949 Land Rover Series One 80ins wheelbase generated a noteworthy £18,975 and £12,880 was available for an ex-Ford Experimental Department and cosmetically challenged 1956 Ford Zephyr that had done both Monte and RAC Rallies in period.
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A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 with £70,000 worth of restoration bills on file attracted a premium-inclusive £199,500, nearly £25,000 above guide price, during the Coys sale at Ascot Racecourse, reports Richard Hudson-Evans. Whilst an unregistered and only 151 miles from new in 1993 Jaguar XJ220 also raised a better than fore...cast £133,500 at the Racecourse Grandstand venue.
A one owner 2000 BMW Z8 Roadster with hardtop made a close to top estimate £74,100. A rare in righthand drive 1968 Porsche 911S Short-Wheelbase Coupe which had been in receipt of a clearly no expense spared restoration found £49,900, virtually £10,000 more than expected.
Among other results, £46,000 was deemed to be sufficient for a 1961 Bentley S2 Continental Flying Spur and £21,000 was accepted for a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith that won an award on the 1950 Monte Carlo Rally. A 1972 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super with Estate car conversion changed hands for £15,640 and 1972 Citroen SM Efi and 1993 Lancia Delta HF Integale Evo II late entries for £13,713 and £13,225 respectively.
Being one of only 48 made by Caterham with enclosed-wheel sportscar bodywork, a 1997 Caterham 21 is relatively rare - chassis number 36 made £12,000 here. The Daimler DB18 used by George VI for a 1946 Royal Tour of South Africa seemed inexpensive for £1610 - as surely were such ‘No Reserve’ fare as a 1989 Bentley Turbo R sold for £3910 and a 1990 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL knocked down for £460.
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A total of 56 collector vehicles, 85 per cent of the entry, sold in the Bonhams tent after Friday practice at the Goodwood Revival auction, leaving only ten car unsold. Topping the £3.68m results was the 1966 Turin Motor Show exhibited and Carrozzeria Touring bodied Aston Martin DBSC, one of only two, which sold for £3...20,500. The rare Coupe, which is now likely to be treated to a £200,000 plus restoration, was acquired by a major Aston Martin collector.
The Friday evening sale proved to be a sell out for the British marque with a stunningly restored 1955 DB2/4 MkII Tickford Drophead attracting £181,900, a 1964 B5 £155,500, a 1965 DB5 £144,500, a 1961 DB4 £95,000, a 1966 DB6 Mk1 Vantage £78,500, a 1968 DB6 Mk1 auto £53,200, a 1957 DB2/4 MkII Tickford Coupe £49,900, a 1968 DB5 Vantage £43,300 and a 1996 Virage Volante £34,500. Even a Banham converted former 1972 V8 Coupe now Convertible pulled £21,275.
Other big number sellers at this year’s Revival auction included a 1956 Mercedes-Benz Gullwing 300SL at £290,000, a 1925 Bentley 3/4½-Litre Tourer £157,700, a stunningly restored 1966 Citroen DS21 Chapron Convertible £131,300, a 1937 Bentley 4¼-Litre All-Weather Tourer by Thrupp & Maberly and a 1923 40/50hp Silver Ghost New Haven Salamanca both £117,000, a 1923 Issota Fraschini T8 Sala Tourer £111,500, a 1927 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Phantom I Dual-Cowl Phaeton and a 1924 45/50hp Silver Ghost Tourer both £109,300, and the 1930 factory Experimental Phantom II 40/50hp Whittingham & Mitchel bodied Dual-Cowl Sports Phaeton £89,500. The ex-works 1970 World Cup Rally Escort FTW 48H changed hands for £71,900.
The prices leader board for Automobilia at Goodwood, meanwhile, was no less bullish with the 1957 British GP winning Herbert Johnson helmet worn by Sir Stirling Moss making £23,000, an Aston Martin DBR2 childs car £14,950 and the Johnson helmet and goggles worn by the late Tony Rolt to win the 1953 Le Mans £11,500.Read More