Classic Car Auction Results analysis:

Available lots: 268

Lots sold: 210

Sell-through rate: 78.3%

Total sales amount: £2,148,479

Average vehicle value: £10,231

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Anglia returned to their King’s Lynn premises for another one of their bumper classic sales, with a scarcely believable 268 cars of literally all types, shapes and sizes crossing the auction block on Saturday April 14. An amazing 210 lots were sold, comprising what is easily the widest and most eclectic range of cars that you’re ever likely to see at auction in the UK. Anglia is quite happy to leave the big-dollar headliners to the likes of Bonhams and RM Sotheby’s – here you’ll find your next MG Metro Turbo Convertible, a Fiat X1/9 with under 800 miles on the clock, or a 1971 BMC ambulance. Indeed, the most expensive car didn’t even top a hundred thousand – the £83,740 paid for an E-Type roadster stole the show, numbers wise.

Of interest to us was an unexpectedly large range of BMW, Mercedes and Jaguar cars, comprised of some really interesting lots.

 

1968 Daimler V8 250 Manual – sold for £4,876

As far as starter classics go, this V8 Daimler 250 seemed incredible value to us at £4,876 inc premium. It needs a little work but it’s not a basket case, and it’s been in the same ownership since 1972. With a price like this we’re sure that there’s more than meets the eye, but still, that’s a lot of car for the money.

 

1962 Jaguar MkII Rally Car – sold for £48,760

Do you prefer your MkII’s airborne? This one will have the purists cringing, but it’s filling us with fun ideas. Anyone who’s ever been involved in motorsport from a car owner’s perspective knows that you can sink tens of thousands into developing a competition car – better to buy one that’s already sorted. You could keep it in rally specification and do HERO’s Le Jog rally, or remove the stickers and make a few easy modifications for entry to the world’s premier historic circuit race meetings. Fancy at tilt at Goodwood?

 

1951 Jaguar XK120 OTS – sold for £46,640

Maybe you like your thrills at a slightly slower pace, and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, this pair will all need a long period of quality workshop time before they’ll ever hit the roads again, but both are a perfect canvas upon which a restoration specialist can work their magic. It has genuinely surprised us that you would find two completely original XK projects available at the same sale – with values having skyrocketed some time ago, we figured that they would all have been restored to concours specification by now. Obviously not.

This OTS was delivered new to New Zealand in 1951, and remains a matching numbers example with a Jaguar Heritage certificate.

We’re slightly puzzled at just where you’d start with this 1958 XK150 – it seems that everything from knee-height down is almost completely rusted away. It was delivered new to Singapore in 1958, and has been in the UK since 1970. It is also a matching numbers example and comes with several rare factory Jaguar tools, but its last MOT was in 1979…

 

1988 Lister Jaguar XJS 6.0 Manual – sold for £37,100

A one-owner Lister which was converted from a brand new car in 1988. It’s been in dry storage since 2004 and is as complete and original as you’d hope. A proper brawny British supercar which provides a driving experience that you’d struggle to find elsewhere.

 

1956 Mercedes-Benz W186 300 Adenauer – sold for £37,630

A nice older restoration which is in solid patinaed shape and ready for years of enjoyable club use ahead. What a great old bus.

 

1972 Mercedes-Benz W115 220 – sold for £6,572

These old 220’s are probably one of the best starter classic that there is. They come directly from Mercedes’ famous ‘cost is no object’ era of engineering and build quality, and there is great support from the manufacturer, the aftermarket, and the club. This one is in nice reliable shape, and has had a recent head rebuild and new carpets. What a great way to spend six grand.

 

1959 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Cabriolet – sold for £53,000

This ’59 220SE was delivered new to Germany and has come to the UK this year after spending most of its life in Hawaii. It’s advertised as requiring restoration, and whilst it is currently running and driving and in sound condition, it would look absolutely spectacular should a lavish professional restoration be carried out.

 

1956 Mercedes-Benz 180 Ponton – sold for £5,936

Remember what we said about Mercedes build quality? During that period, Mercedes would award owners a special grille badge every time their car passed certain mileage milestones. This nice 180 Ponton spent most of its life in Rome, and proudly wears badges for 200,000km, 500,000km and 1,000,000km. That’s a hell of a story and a cool club car for under six grand.

 

1976 BMW 1602 – sold for £13,780

Once again, not one for the purists. But with prices of 2002 Turbos having become silly over the past few years, we reckon this turbo-kitted 1602 would offer 80% of the fun for less than 10% of the cost. Crucially there are no turbo badges to be seen, so it’s not pretending to be something it isn’t. We’d keep the Motorsport stripes but delete the majority of the other stickers, and have one cool weekend cruiser that’s sure to be a rock-solid investment to boot.

 

2001 Alpina B3 Convertible – sold for £7,208

We think this is cool because it isn’t just an Alpina kit and wheels – it’s a full-house B3, which means it comes with the proper Alpina intake manifold, software updates, and suspension revisions. That means that it will not only be a lot more dynamically accomplished than almost any other E46 Cab (M3 excluded) but if kept in the same condition that it’s in now, should make a reasonably solid investment, too. You might not make your fortune with this one, but there is definitely the opportunity to enjoy a few years’ free motoring.

 

1988 BMW E30 325i Motorsport Cabriolet – sold for £15,476

When did you last see an E30 Cabriolet with a factory hard top? This is surely one for the collectors – one of just 15 automatic (there were 25 manuals) Motorsport Cabriolets built in 1988, in completely original and unmolested condition with a verified 67,000 miles on the clock. It’s spent most of its life in Jersey, and is original right down to its green-tinted windscreen, complete with the run-in instruction sticker still affixed.

 

1991 BMW 750iL – did not sell – estimate £9,500-12,000

This ’91 750 failed to sell, but it’s such a perplexing example and we are convinced that there is a collection out there somewhere that would love to welcome it in. As a brand new car, it was gifted to Kendall College for training purposes – quite why they needed a brand new V12 luxury saloon for training purposes remains to be seen. It has no documents and quite a few minor dings and scratches, but the college owned it for 27 years and put just 3,515 miles on it during that time. Someone, somewhere, would undoubtedly know the story of this car.

 

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