Silverstone Auctions have rounded up an impressive collection of extreme low mileage fast Fords, to be sold at their NEC Classic Motor Show sale on November 11-12. Affordable performance cars don’t typically have an easy life, and as a consequence there are often not many of the older ones around anymore. They get thrashed mercilessly,…
BLOG
Stylish sleepers – the fastest subtle Mercedes you can buy
If you’ve always had a soft spot for Mercedes-Benz’s eighties DTM-honed small saloon, the 190E Cosworth, and had filed it away in that part of the brain which acts as a cerebral garage for all of your ‘one day’ cars, then a perusal of the current classifieds – and the prices now being asked –…
BMW 635CSi breaking estimates and records – What’s going on?
The ‘E24’ BMW 635CSi might be one of the most luxurious GTs of the eighties, but there’s nothing relaxed about how they have been performing at auction over the past couple of years. The original BMW 6 Series, known to fans by its chassis code ‘E24’, was for a number of years a group of…
What to expect at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction
It’s not every day that you open up an auction listing and see a Peel P50 next to an Aston Martin DBR9. Two special cars in their own right, and for die hard fans of the ‘Old New Top Gear’ ones that both had memorable features on the show, but two cars that have absolutely…
Alpinas, AMGs and Ferraris star at new Rockingham Auction
City Auction Group ran their first classic car auction yesterday at the famous Rockingham Motor Speedway and I personally couldn’t think of a more perfect setting for this collection of vintage cars to go under the hammer. For those that haven’t been to Rockingham or don’t know much about it, it’s Europe’s fastest motor racing…
See the results from the latest Barons auction
Barons’ latest ‘British Heritage – Classic and sports Car’ auction at Sandowne park had all the hallmarks of a great sale. From Bentleys and BMWs to Jags and Jensens it really was a treat to have all of this classic metal in one place. Fortunately the majority of cars were treated to new homes with…
Classic Car Auctions – June sale results
Last weekend CCA hosted their second sale of the year, the June Sale, with over 160 cars offered infront of a packed auction hall at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre. With all of the sales in and results totted up CCA reported a sales rate of 80% and total sales of £1.8 million. A successful sale,…
12 cylinder Ferraris flop at auction – is the bubble starting to pop?
Think of Ferrari and the odds are that you think of a screaming 12 cylinder engine, rolling Italian hills and enough clichés to sink a Gondola. When faced with the results of the most recent Historics at Ascott auction, we can’t help thinking that the Ferrari bubble may well be about to pop –…
Price rise heroes – the best classics for your buck
It seems that one can’t go five minutes in the car world without being told ‘this is the car that has appreciated the most’ or ‘this car has tripled in price’ and granted we are often guilty of this. The classic car market is currently in an extremely dynamic phase with car numbers getting lower…
Lotus Elan: Catch it while you can
Built from 1962 – 1975 the original Lotus Elans are known as the ‘1960’s’ Elans and, despite the inaccuracy in their given nickname, were exactly the car that Lotus needed at the time. As one of the cars that helped Colin Chapman and co. gain notoriety in the British car game the Elan has morphed…