The end of year sale by H&H Classics at Chateau Impney in the Midlands today (Dec 7th) was nothing short of pre-Christmas garage sale with a fabulous collection of luxury cars on offer seized from a Middle Eastern sheikh following a financial dispute.
Continue reading …With a diverse mix of traditional and modern classics on offer and one of its most intriguing catalogues yet, CCA successfully hammered away 82 per cent of the cars on offer for a total sales value of £1.4million.
Continue reading …Christmas shopping began today (4 December 2016) at Bonhams New Bond Street, when the signature Bond Street Sale of collectors’ motor cars achieved more than £4.5 million.
Continue reading …Classic Car Auctions returns this weekend with its final auction of the year and a catalogue of 130 quality ‘everyman’ classics for sale on Saturday 3rd December at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre.
Continue reading …Built in 1926 for the American businessman Clarence Gasque as a gift for his wife, the Woolworths heiress Maude Gasque.With unlimited budget, he left the details to the Wolverhampton based coachbuilders, Charles Clark and Sons.Clark’s owner, John Barnett, had the inspired idea of using a Marie Antoinette sedan chair he had come across at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a model. The result was a spectacular creation more resembling the throne room at Versailles than the inside of a car. On delivery, the Rolls-Royce cost £6,500, of which £4,500 had been spent on the interior. Extensively illustrated and listed in numerous publications, The Phantom of Love is amongst the most famous of the surviving Rolls-Royce models.
Continue reading …Mossgreen’s important Collectors’ Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia Auction, held on Sunday 27 November at Lorbek Luxury Cars showroom in Melbourne, achieved almost.
Continue reading …With cameras fixed firmly on the auction rostrum, Silverstone Auctions were joined by Channel 4, Ant Anstead, Phil Glenister and the team from ‘For the Love of Cars’ to see the very special 1958 ex-Chris Barber Lotus Elite Series I sell for a new record auction price of £121,500
Continue reading …Maude Gasque, a Woolworth’s heiress, had a passion for French 18th century history and design and her husband, who was the Finance Director of Woolworth’s UK operation, wanted the car’s interior to have a French theme
Continue reading …Aston Martins could not be less like London buses, yet H&H Classics have conjured up no fewer than six superb cars, which cover a total of 77 years of automotive magic from this leading British maker of automotive dreams
Continue reading …The car is offered with its original hand book, warranty card and service book containing eight entries up to the 20,000-mile service in November 1965 at 20,207 miles and also five old MOT certificates, the last dated 1973/74 at 50,000 miles
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