Big Rolls-Royce coupe’s are a thing of beauty and grandeur, but are an experience savoured only by a select few. Take the latest Phantom Coupe for example; with a sticker price that starts at £313,000 and a roadside presence to wow visiting dignitaries, it represents the pinnacle of the development of the luxury automobile. Owning…
Bonhams annual Bond Street Sale is an end of year highlight on the auction calendar, with millions of pounds worth of classic cars going under the hammer in the heart of Mayfair. A handful of high profile cars, including an Enzo and a 500-mile 997.2 GT3RS, failed to find new homes. However, what did sell…
The Land Rover Defender is a rare member of that uber-echelon of cars that are truly untouchable. Along with icons like the Porsche 911 and the Jaguar E-Type, the nameplate has gained an almost mythical status. Many devotees would sooner have you slander their own Mother before speaking a bad word of the Defender. Since the…
Greatness is a concept and a position we idolise. Over the years many have waxed lyrical about greatness and what it means to achieve it. ‘Some are born great and others have greatness thrust upon them‘ is a classic saying about grasping opportunity. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers‘…
When the latest addition to the Classic Car Auction Results team walked (rolled) through the (garage) door we were genuinely the happiest team in existence. Patting each other on the back saying ‘haven’t we done well?’ and revelling in the Italian sportscar-ness of what we’d done, we mused about all of the adventures and auctions…
Damian Jones, Sales Manager at H&H Classics, has a front-row seat to witness the various intricacies of the classic car market. We sat down with Damian at H&H’s recent Imperial War Museum Duxford sale to discuss the current shape of the market, to hear about his career highlights, and to muse on where it all might…
It’s one thing to advise, but it’s an entirely different thing to act. At Classic Car Auction Results, we spend our days searching through auction listings and studying what enthusiast cars are actually selling for. However, over conversation one day it came out that few of us had ever actually bought a car at auction. We’d been…
Almost every car enthusiast has their own story of ‘the one that got away’. You know, the car that you should have/would have/could have bought when they were cheap and plentiful, but didn’t. And then twenty years later, you’re telling some friends in the pub about the time you passed on the Escort RS1800/240Z/Mini Cooper…
History has a habit of repeating itself, and it has got us wondering if the Mercedes-Benz 190SL is poised for big things. The 190SL has lived a life in the shadow of its bigger brother, the 300SL. In both Gullwing and Roadster form, the 300SL is a legend of the classic car world. But even…
Silverstone’s November sale at the Birmingham NEC Classic Motorshow is often one of the year’s best attended auctions. By virtue of its prime location at one of the classic car world’s key events, the auction generates footfall like no other by sheer osmosis alone. The hordes of browsing enthusiasts and people who approach the auction with a…