Ringo Starr’s 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford has sold at Bonham’s auction for £102,000, bought by former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. Last month we reported that Ringo Starr’s 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford was going across the block at Bonham’s December auction and expected to make around £100k. The estimate was bang on the nose, […]
Jaguar XKSS Continuation is the Octane Car of the Year
The Jaguar XKSS Continuation – Jaguar’s recreation of the ‘missing XKSS cars – has won the 2017 Octane Magazine Car of the Year Award. It’s eighteen months since Jaguar announced they would build the ‘missing’ XKSS models lost in a fire at Browns Lane in 1957. The first new Jaguar XKSS in 60 years. Whatever you […]
Ringo Starr’s 1966 Mini Cooper S Radford up for sale – and it’s a HATCHBACK
A 1966 Mini Cooper S with Radford conversion – originally owned by the Beatles Ringo Starr – is up for sale and expected to fetch over £100,000. The quartet of Minis bought by Brain Epstein for the Beatles – as a thank-you for making him very wealthy – are well known, with the possibly the […]
Classic Ford Escort now hitting almost £100,000 – RS2000 and Cosworth lead the way
Classic Ford Escorts are now fetching serious money, with a 1996 Escort Cosworth Lux fetching £91,125 and a 1980 Escort RS2000 Custom a huge £97,875. We’ve recently reported on a couple of Ford Sierra Cosworths fetching mad money, with a 1987 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 fetching more than £120,000, an astonishing amount for a Sierra, […]
1952 Jaguar C-Type heading for auction – should fetch £5 million
A 1952 Jaguar C-Type, one of just 53 built and the first C-Type in the USA, is up for auction in New York and expected to fetch around £5,000,000. The Jaguar C-Type is a legendary Jaguar race car from the 1950s with just 53 ever built, between 1951 and 1953, and just 43 of those […]
Grab ‘Twiggy’s’ 1960 Morris Mini for (probably) less than £10k
A 1960 Morris Mini, made famous by Twiggy and Marks and Spencer is up for auction at Classic Car Auctions and expected to fetch £8-10k. If any car epitomises the 1960s it’s the original Mini – Austin and Morris – and if any one person personifies 1960s Swinging London it’s probably Twiggy. So put the […]
NINE Ferrari Dealers in the UK now Ferrari Classiche Authorised Workshops
Ferrari has created 48 official Classiche Authorised Workshops to look after Ferraris more than 20 years old, with nine of them in the UK. If you want to make sure your Classic Ferrari keeps its value, you need to have a Ferrari Classiche Certification, and have your pride and joy looked after my Ferrari’s Classiche experts. […]
GOLD-PLATED 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six up For Sale
A gold-plated 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six – star of the 1958 Earls Court Motor Show and Commissioned by the Daily Express, is up for auction. We tend to think of gold-pated cars as the stuff of rap videos, with ostentation the sole objective, and bling a modern phenomenon. But this gold-plated Austin Healey 100-Six is actually sixty years […]
Eric Morecambe’s 1968 Jensen Interceptor Mk 1 up for auction
A fully restored 1968 Jensen Interceptor Mk 1, originally owned by national treasure Eric Morecambe, is up for auction. Expected to make around £100k. Eric Morecambe may be long gone, but he’s still a national treasure even to a younger generation thanks to re-runs of the Morecambe and Wise Show, especially at Christmas. That ‘National […]
An original ‘Only Fools and Horses’ Reliant Regal 3-wheeler up for grabs
An original Only Fools and Horses Reliant Regal three-wheeler, used in the iconic BBC sitcom, is up for grabs at Silverstone Auctions next month. Not a day goes by without at least one episode of the iconic BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses airing, with the adventures of Del Boy, Rodney, Grandad and Uncle Albert […]