August 2024 - UK auction previews
20 August, 2024
Iconic Auctioneers is set for three days of car and motorcycle sales at the Silverstone Festival, with competition cars getting proceedings underway on 23 August. A unique 1992 Simpson-Ferrari V12 GTR tops the entries with a guide price of £500,000 – 600,000. Based on an F40 chassis that was sourced direct from Ferrari following crash testing, Simpson Motorsport built the bespoke car with a normally aspirated V12 from a 550 Maranello using a Hewland transmission and lightweight F40 GTE-style bodywork. Campaigned in GT races in Europe and the UK, including the 2003 Vallelunga 6 Hours in the hands of Mauro Baldi, it has recently emerged from storage and is now road-registered in the UK.
Following Iconic’s successful sale earlier in the year of Tony Pond’s MG Metro 6R4 that fetched £425,500, its sister car, the ex-Works Malcolm Wilson 6R4, will go under the hammer at Silverstone with a £375,000 – 475,000 estimate. Used in three international rallies, where Wilson brought it home in fourth place at the 1986 San Remo Rally and 17th on the Lombard RAC, it was given a mechanical refurb in 2004 and appeared at the 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
[ Iconic’s Silverstone Festival Competition Car Sale – auction catalogue here ]
Star attractions at the collectors’ sale on day two include a right-hand drive 1963 Maserati 3500 GTi Spyder, restored at a cost of £175,000 in 2016 (estimate £500,000 – 600,000); a 1923 Bentley 3/4¼ Supercharged Two-Seater – a creation of the late Malcolm Bishop (estimate £400,000 – 500,000); and a barely-used 2001 Lamborghini Diablo VT 6.0 SE, one of just 42 produced with only 564 miles from new (estimate £400,000 – 500,000).
The sale also features a 1972 BMW 3.0 CSL, given a £120,000 restoration in 2022 (estimate £120,000 – 150,000), and a 1981 Vauxhall Chevette HSR with known provenance, one of only 18 out of 33 homologation specials believed to have survived (estimate £70,000 – 90,000).
[ Iconic’s Silverstone Festival Collectors’ Car Sale – auction catalogue here ]
Gooding & Company heads to the UK in August for its London Sale, once again partnering with the Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace. Bugattis from the Jack Braam Ruben Collection lock out the top three; one of three remaining 1935 Type 57 Atalantes is listed at £3,000,000 – 4,000,000; a 1933 Type 43A Roadster 'Sport Luxe', thought to be one of only 10 examples extant is £3,000,000 – 4,000,000; and 1934 Type 57 Stelvio offered in a preserved original condition which formed part of The Risch Family Collection for over 53 years is £900,000 – 1,100,000.
Any Pegaso is a rare sight at auction, and Gooding’s Touring-bodied Z-102 is one of the rarest subset of Series II cars with the larger 3.2-litre engine. Complete with well-documented history, it was entered in a number of rallies in the 1960s by its then owner Alejandro Espino who retained possession until the 1990s, coming to the UK in 2007 when it was purchased by Douglas Blain, the co-founder of Car magazine, who commissioned a sympathetic restoration and subsequently displayed the car at Goodwood’s Cartier Style et Luxe (estimate £600,000 – 800,000).
[ Gooding & Company London Auction – sale catalogue here ]
Classic car auction price estimates for: Ferrari | MG | Maserati | Bentley | Lamborghini | BMW | Vauxhall | Bugatti | Pegaso
From leading auction houses: Iconic Auctioneers | Gooding & Company
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