Amidst an unseasonable spring snowstorm, Bonhams returned to Goodwood for their annual headlining sale at the 76th Members’ Meeting. Bringing 105 lots, including a surprising 12 Lancias ranging from Lambda to Y10 supermini, 75 vehicles found new homes for a total sale value of just over £3.5 million. Interestingly, vehicles that failed to sell included the ex-Paul McCartney Lamborghini 400GT, and a beautiful Dino 246 GTS in a stunning combination of black over tan leather, and featuring the popular Daytona seats, flares, and Campagnolo wheels. Nonetheless, strong prices were paid for a wide variety of other machines, confirming that the market is performing well in the mid sectors.

Below, we detail a small handful of lots that stood out to us.

 

Classic Car Auction Results analysis:
Available lots: 105
Lots sold: 75
Sell-through rate: 71%
Total sales amount: £3,628,882
Average vehicle value: £48,385
The full sale results can be viewed by clicking here.
Click on each lot listing to view past auction results for that car.

 

1968 Fiat Dino 2.0 Spider with hardtop – sold for £100,060

Well bought, this one. Our data shows that nice Spiders were trading for as much as £150,000 just 12-18 months ago, although, they rarely topped £70,000 three or four years ago. This one in theory ticks all of the boxes – it’s in excellent unrestored condition, it wears the perfect period colour (not Ferrari Rosso Corsa, all the better for it in our eyes), it has the early 2.0 all-aluminium engine (later 2.4 cars had a steel block, a further step away from its F1 roots) and it comes with a rare factory hardtop. Seems like a good deal to us.

 

1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA – sold for £180,700

As with any old racing car, these early GTAs can be a little like Grandad’s Axe – how many rebuilds can a single car go through before its soul is stripped away? Our data shows that highly original GTAs can bring upwards of £300,000, showing that the Members’ Meeting audience clearly takes this view, too. However… that doesn’t take away from the fact that this is one cool and highly competitive historic racer that still wears most of its original GTA parts. Don’t buy it to polish it – buy it to race it hard, exactly as its Autodelta creators would have wished.

 

c.1965 Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA engine – sold for £25,300

We’re posting this more out of interest than anything else. How often do you get the opportunity to buy an original GTA engine, fully rebuilt and ready to go? It still has all the tricky bits that made these cars so special, such as the bespoke twin plug per cylinder head and the magnesium sump. If you’re going to take your new 105 GTA historic racing, best bring a spare engine, right?

 

1974 Alfa Romeo Montreal Coupé project – sold for £26,450

In our eyes, this is the bargain of the sale. A UK delivered, right-hand drive, matching numbers Montreal that has been off the road for the last 40 years – all you need to do is put it back together. The expensive bits – the body restoration and the engine rebuild – are done, and the parts are allegedly all there to assemble it into a driving car. Of course, we know how these things go. A lot of parts will be missing, there will be hours of head scratching, and the freshly built engine will need to come apart to check it before you fire it up for the first time. But we live in an age where nice Monty’s are selling for upwards of £70,000, yet here you can make a down payment of £26,000 and build it back up as time and finances allow. We’ve gotta ask ourselves – what could possibly go wrong?

 

2002 BMW Z3 M Coupé – sold for £48,300

Love ’em or loathe ’em, but the venerable ‘Clown Shoe’ is a future classic and it’s here to stay. We noticed a while back that they’ve been heading north, and this example shows what is possible. A last-of-the-line model with the most powerful S54 motor, one careful owner, relatively low miles and a full dealer history. At £48,300, this isn’t even the most expensive example in our dataset. Watch this space.