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REMAINING open-minded is key to und unders ersta tandi nding ng the DS 9. Sp Spea eaki kingas ngas a Bi Bigg Ci Citr troë oën n sympathiser sympa thiser,, even I didn didn’t ’t know what to make of it initially initially.. First Fi rst of all all,, thisisn’ thisisn’tt act actual ually ly a Citr Ci troë oën. n. DS is no now w a ma marq rque ue in itss ow it own n ri righ ghtt – th thee lux luxuryFre uryFrenc nch h armof the St Stell ellan antis tis gr group oup an and d an osh o shoo oott of Ci Citr troë oën n – bu but, t, as th thee ags a gship hip,, th thee 9 is su sure rely ly th thee ne next xt in linee to the glo lin gloriou riouss Cit Citroë roën n C6. Pre Pr eyy it ai ain n’t ’t,, bu butt th thee DS 9 do does es a gr grea eatt jo job b of lo look okin ingg cl clas assy sy,, an and d it has som somee ve very ry nic nicee det detail ailin ing. g. e head he adli ligh ghts ts ar aree a wo work rk of ar art, t, an and d the C-p C-pilla illarr ma marke rkerr lig lights hts andthe bonnet’ss central chrome strip hark bonnet’ back not-so-subtly to the original Citroën Citr oën DS. Based Ba sed on the ar archi chite tectu cture re of the Peug Pe ugeot eot 508 508,, with an ext extend ended ed wheelbase, the DS9 relies on the same petr petrol/el ol/electric ectric hybrid powertr pow ertrain ain.. is one is the outgoing outg oing ee-T Tense Rivol Rivolii with a combined combi ned 225bh 225bhp p outpu output, t, since repla rep laced ced by a 250 250bhp bhp mod model. el. ere’ er e’s als also o a hig high-s h-spec pec 355 355bhp bhp plugplu g-in in hyb hybrid rid if youneed mor moree
performa perfor mance nce – alt althou hough gh thi thiss car is abs absolu olutel telyy not ab about out tha that. t. Comfort Com fort and ren renemen ementt are where DS has set its sights. e special-feelingg interior ambience special-feelin setss the ton set tone: e: an anyon yonee who has drivena dri vena 508 mig might ht not notice ice simila sim ilarit rities ies in the cab cabin in la layou yout, t, but much of the switchgear has a unique uni que fee feel, l, an and d the ma massa ssage ge sea seats ts are spect spectacul acularly arly comf comfortab ortable. le. DS has not notice iceab ably ly li lied ed the qua qualityof lityof material mat erialss used throu throughout ghout,, too too.. How’ Ho w’ss the rid ride? e? It’s at thi thiss poi point nt that fello fellow w Citr Citroënis oënistes tes might gett sl ge slig ight htly ly up upse set, t, as th thee DS 9 ostensibl oste nsiblyy opts for a ‘s ‘stand tandard ard’’ springg and dam sprin damper per setset-up. up. However How ever,, these are ada adaptiv ptivee damp da mper ers, s, whi which ch se seem em todo an outs ou tsta tand ndin ingg jo job b of gi givin vingg th thee DS 9 just the right balance of comfort and an d com compos posur ure, e, hel helpedby pedby mod modest est
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doubtfull tha doubtfu thatt we we’’d eve everr see another anot her big Citr Citroën oën aga again. in. Yet here he re is th thee DS 9. An And d it’s eq equa uall lly y hard ha rd to ge gett you yourr hea head d ar aroun ound. d. Ten ye years ars of pro progre gress ss has see seen n the lar large ge salo saloon on mar market ket dimin diminish ish in fa favo vour ur of la larg rgee SU SUV Vs. DS ha hass se sett realistic rea listic sales targ targets ets of ‘hundr ‘hundreds’ eds’ in th thee UK, an and d it it’’s no nott exp expec ecti ting ng to tak takee sig signi nican cantt nu numbe mbers rs fro from m Audi A6 or BMW 5-Series buyers. iss is a ca i carr fo forr th thos osee wh who o wa want nt something somet hing gen genuinel uinelyy dier dierent, ent, and an d it’s on onee th thatI atI th thin inkk re real ally ly ha hass the pot potent entialto ialto ge gett und under er you yourr skin sk in – if gi give ven n th thee ch chan ance ce.. I ju just st hopee tha hop thatt eno enoug ugh h peo people ple do do..
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Federico Formenti A spotlight spotlight-shunning -shunning great who shaped post-war Italian car styling anage when‘fa when‘fame’ me’, or theillusi theillusion on of fam fame, e, hasbecom hasbecomee som someth ethingof ingof an obs obsess ession ion and is sought by many who have no apparent talentto tal entto jus justify tify thequest.It is the theref reforedicu oredicult lt to ima imagin ginee tha thatt som someon eonee witha sub sublim limee arti artistic stic gi, and who could claim credit for some of the most beautiful Italian cars of the post-war period, should have shunned the limeli limelight ght to such an extent that he is virtually unknown to the world at large… and even to enthusiasts. Late in 1925, wealthy Milanese gentleman racer rac er Fe Felic licee Bia Bianch nchii And Anderl erloni oni andhis bus busines inesss partner Gaetano Ponzoni decided to become coachbuilder coach builderss and ente entered red negot negotiation iationss to buy a local rm, Carrozzeria Falco, Falco, soon to be renamed Carrozzeria Touring. at same year, Federico Formenti was born into the lower end of Mil Milan an’’s soci social al hie hiera rarch rchyy. Kno Known wn as ‘Mimmo ‘Mi mmo’’ to fam family ily andfriend andfriendss ali alike,he ke,he bec became ame the chief designer of Touring in 1948, and went on to be one of the greatest unsung stylists of Italian coachbuilding. Growing up even more passionate about motor cars than the average Italian schoolboy, Mimmo le school in 1939 and, as a 14-yearold, started work in a machine shop sweeping oors and washing down the machinery. It seem se emss th that at,, as we well ll as be beco comi ming ng a ski skill lled ed machinist, he had a gi for visualising threedimensional dimens ional form and evolv evolved ed into an expert model-maker and illustrator il lustrator.. In 1946 his older brother-in-law, a technical designer at Touring, introduced Formenti to Fel elic icee An Ande derl rlon onii – an andd An Ande derl rlon onii wa wass suciently impressed by the young man that he took him on as an assistant to Giuseppe Belli. Belli had headed styling at Touring since WE LIVE IN
style of body, with the help of wind tunnel testing. In 1948, just two years aer Touring had started to rebuild itself following World Warr Two, Wa Two, Belli le to join Isoa Fraschini. Fraschini. Belli’s departure was Mimmo’s opportunity and Anderloni didn’t hesitate in appointing him hi m as th thee ne new w he head ad of sty styli ling ng.. Hi Hiss r rst st designs echoed those of his mentor Belli but the model that today would have catapulted anyy ne an new w fa face ce on onto to th thee fr fron ontt pa page gess of th thee motoring journals was the exquisite Ferrari 166, now recognised as one of the seminal open op en sp sport ortss ca carr fo form rms. s. Whe Whenn it wa wass r rst st sh show ownn at the Turin Auto Salon, the revered Fiat boss Gian Gi anni ni Agn Agnell ellii exc excla laim imed:‘Butthis ed:‘Butthis is no nott a ca car, r,
‘MIMMO CHAIN-SMOKED CHAIN-SMOKED HIS H IS WAY THROUGH MANY LATE NIGHTS AS HE PENNE D YET ANOTHER AUTOMOTIV AUTOMOTIVEE MASTERPIECE’ it’s a lile boat.’ us was coined the name that has entered the automotive lexicon and by which the 166 MM is popularly known – ‘Barch ‘Ba rchea ea’’. e 166 166MM MM als alsoo int introd roduce ucedd Ferrari’ss famous signature egg-crate grille. Ferrari’ Federico was so shy and retiring that he was quite happy to remain in the background and allow the company owner and front man ‘Cici’ Anderloni (son of Felici, who died suddenly in 1949) to bask in the limelight. But he in no
masterpiece, quite oen with his wife Paola kniing away quietly in the corner of the oce for company. ere were more Ferraris, the Alfa Romeo ‘Disco Volante’ (said to be the inspiration for the Jaguar D-type), the Isoa Fraschini Fra schini Mon Monteros terosa, a, and variou variouss Peg Pegasos, asos, including the dramatic one-o black and red Z-102 rill, with its rea rearr scr screen een recessed recessed between ying buresses. A mouth-watering Aston Martin roadster in 1956 prompted David Brown to commis commission sion the exquisite and timeless DB4, followed by the DB5 and DB6 – James Bond would be a lesser mortal without his Aston. He styled Maserati’ Maser ati’s rst volume produ production ction car car,, the gorgeous 3500GT, and followed it with the similar Lancia Flaminia GT and Alfa 2600. But Touring was suering serious nancial troubles and in 1967 one of the all-time-great carrozzerie had to shut up shop. Mimmo’s last projects were the Jensen Interceptor, which was handed to Vignale to complete, and the sublime Lamborghini 350 and 400 GT. Mimmo and his boss were not out of work for long. Aer a brief spell with a smaller carrozzeria he followed Cici Anderloni to Alfa Romeo Rom eo an andd an im impo porta rtant nt po posit sition ion in it itss Centro Stile. However, he was not suited to the bureaucracy of a large organisation and declared his time at Alfa to be ‘the unhappiest of my working life’. He hung in there until the age of 55 and then took early retirement to enjoy a quiet life with his wife Paola, whom he had married in 1950. Fromthenon,beingsuchamodestcharacter, he spent his time painting, making furniture, andenjoying andenjoyi ng the com compa pany ny of his two gro grownwn-up up
1933 19 33 an andd wa wass re respo spons nsib ible le fo forr som somee of th thee mo most st beautiful bodies to grace any manufacturer’ manufacturer’ss chassis of the day. Touring’s Touring’s credo was ‘weight ‘ weight is the enemy and air resistance is the obstacle’. e weight issue was resolved by the patented Superleggera method of body construction and air resistance by evolving a at-sided ‘ponton’ 164
way was aronted by his anonymity and saw hiss re hi rela lati tion onsh ship ip wit withh th thee bo boss ss as a tru truee collaboration and meeting of like minds. roughout the following decade Mimmo built a CV that would be the envy of any designer, design er, chain chain-smokin -smokingg his way throu through gh man many y latenightsashepennedyetanotherautomotive
children and his grandchildren. He had no interest in owning a ash car and travelled widely in his beaten-up Fiat Fiat 124 estate. Fede Fe deric ricoo Fo Form rmen enti ti di died ed in co cont nten ente tedd obscurity from diabetes-related complications in 19 1993 93 atthe ag agee of 69 69.. On Only ly on onee ca carr ma maga gazin zinee ran an obituary.
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Spaghetti Junction Britain’ss most notorious Britain’ n otorious motorway interchange celebrate celebratess its 50th TH E G RV EL EL LY LY H IL IL L Interchange, junction 6 of the M6, aka ‘Spaghei Junction’, opened for trac half a century ago at 4.30pm on the aernoon of 24 May 1972. Rarely has a more appropriate simile been coined coin ed than that penned penned by Roy Smith, Smith, a reporte rep orterr for the Birmingham Birmingham Even Evening ing Mail , , when the 1 June 1965 issue carried c arried a piece he had wrien aer viewing the plans for the proposed propos ed inter interchan change, ge, an ambitio ambitious us junction of motorways and roads on the outskirts of the city. He described the intermingled ribbons of concrete as ‘like a cross between a plate of spaghe spa ghei i and an uns unsucc uccessf essful ul a aemp emptt at a Staordshire knot’, knot’, reduced by sub-editor Alan Eagleseld for the inspired i nspired front-page headline to simply ‘Spaghei Junction’. No-one could beer it when another local newspaper later ran a competition to name the junction. Submissions such as ‘Jungle Junction’ or ‘Bowels of Satan’, although colourful, failed to capture the complexity of the junction so vividly and were in no way near as catchy, and the name stuck. e junction was conceived as a key part of the Midlands Link project to join the three major maj or pa parts rts of the na nation tional al mot motorwa orwayy netw network, ork, thee M1 th M1,, M5 an andd th thee M6 M6.. It Itss ov over erla lapp ppin ingg convolutions look as if it could have been the
work of that eccentric master of visual illusions, Maurits Cornelis Escher: having ventured in, unsuspecting motorists would be condemned to circulate forever, with no hope of escape. Comedian Ken Dodd called it the eighth wonder of the world, because ‘once you get on you wonder how to get o ’. Local politicians hoped it would lure people into Birmingham; cynics claimed it was the quickest way out. e jun juncti ction on wa wass no nott th thee r rst st ar arte teria riall interchange on the site: that dates from the days when ‘horsepower’ meant exactly that. In 1844 the Grand Union Canal, the Tame Valley Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal intersected to form the Salford Junction, part of which lies under the approach to Spaghei. e presence of the canals taxed chief engineer Roy Foot, who had to arrange his supporting columns and roadway levels so that horses could still use the towpaths to pull barges without fouling the tow ropes. When interviewed on the occasion of the junction’ss 40th anniversary, Foot, who had junction’ worked on the project for ten years, declared with a chuckle: ‘ When I pop my clogs and I’m cremated, the boys [intend to] drive along Spaghei Junction and empty the ashes out of the window’ window’.. e junction, spread over 30 acres of land,
COMEDIAN KEN DODD CALLED IT THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD BECAUSE ‘ONCE YOU GET ON YOU WONDER HOW TO GET OFF’
compri comp rise sess ei eigh ghtt mi mile less (1 (13k 3km m) of ro road ad supported on 559 concrete columns, with 18 routes converging on ve levels, the ‘top deck’ being 80 (24.4m) in the air. 13,000 tons of steel reinforcement and 175,000 cubic yards of concrete were used in its construction. If ev ever er yo youu wa want nted ed todriv todrivee ov over er ev everypartof erypartof it (s (sure urely ly som someon eonee has trie triedd it)you wou would ld ha have ve to cover 73 zigging and zagging miles. Despite a predicted lifespan of 120 years, as earl ea rlyy as th thee 19 1980s 80s so some me of th thee co conc ncre rete te columns were beginning to deteriorate to the point where remedial measures were required, which continue to this day day.. is involves cuing out the crumbli crumbling ng areas using a wat water er jet lance (pressurised at 16,000psi!) so as not to damage surrounding areas. Forrst-time Forrst-ti me user users, s, in the da days ys befo before re sat sat-na -navv, a sense of mounting panic welled up as you approac appr oached hed the inti intimid midatin atingg tan tangle gle of roa roads ds and overhe ove rhead ad sign signag age. e. For tra travell vellers ers on the M6 who wante wantedd to remain on it the route was straightforward and straight through, but those who wished to deviate deviate were likely likely to be pitched pitched into a disorientating helter-skelter of sloping concrete curves, only to discover that they were headingin hea dingin the wron wrongg dir directi ection. on. At the planning stage it was anticipated that the jun junctio ctionn wou would ld eve eventu ntuall allyy car carry ry up to 75,000 vehicles a day but it rapidly become Britain Brit ain’’s busi busiest est roa roadd jun junctio ction, n, and now 220,000 vehicles a day pass over it, around it and through it. In 20 2018 18,, Hi High ghwa ways ys En Engl glan andd as aske kedd th thee ‘Yum ‘Y ummi miee Br Brum ummi mie’ e’ – Mi Mich chel elin in-s -sta tarr rred ed Birmingham chef Glyn Purcell – to create a dish to cel celebr ebrat atee the the50t 50thh an anniv nivers ersary ary of wor workk sta startin rtingg on the junction. Using ingredients that reached his res resta taura urant nt via the thejun juncti ction, on, it wa wass bas based ed on an all-Britis allBritishh veg vegetab etable le ‘s ‘spag paghei’ hei’ of spira spiralised lised celeriac celer iac and andpota potato to.. In the same year, Steven Spielberg created a set underneath the junction for scenes in his future-set dystopian thriller Ready Player One. Perh Pe rhap apss in a mil mille lenn nniu ium m fr from om no now w, if anyt an ythi hing ng re rema main inss of th thee Gr Graave vell llyy Hi Hill ll Interchange when the motor car is considered prehistoric, prehis toric, it might be viewed with the same degree deg ree of puz puzzle zlemen mentt and awe with whic whichh
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Birmingham’s pasta-imitating Gravelly Hill Interchange nears completion in 1972.
Chrono WOR DS MARK McARTHUR-CHRISTIE
George Bamford The watch world’s leading enfant terrible, collaborator and firebrand disruptor GEORGE BAMFORD, watch designer, arch collaborator and the man behind the Bamford Watch Wa tch Department, can’t actually remember his rst watch. Instead, aer a quick digression about his TAG Heuer Formula 1 – his rst ‘serious’ ‘se rious’ watch – he annou announces nces:: ‘But her here’ e’s the rst watch I took to bits.’ He holds up a clearly clea rly very wellwell-love loved d Brei Breitling tling Na Navitimer vitimer.. Taking apart a complicated chrono such as a Navitimer is a job for a hardcore watchmaker with a full bench of tools. Yet you sense that, even had the 12-year-old George, armed with nothing more than ‘a towel, a screwdriver for tightening up glasses and a pen knife’, realised that, he wouldn’t have cared. I ask the obvious question. ‘Yeah, it ran, but the chrono function didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. I couldn’t get the clutch adjusted properly.’ Now he’s he’s instilli instilling ng the same mechanical mechanical fearlessness in his own children. ‘In lockdown, I was teaching my son how to strip and rebuild a watch. We had four or ve pocket watches. And, because we couldn couldn’t ’t get out and I’d le my proper tools at the oce in London, we used exactly the same tools I had back then.’ then.’ In stripping and rebuilding that Breitling, George discovered something that’s still the foundation of what he does: ‘It was my rst lightning bolt moment of just like “Wow, it’s got a heart.” It’s got a movement inside it and I’ve got to understand it.’ it.’ You Y ou might expect someone with such a love for mechanical things – he strips and rebuilds an MGB engine to switch o; ‘It’s beer than yoga’–– to see quartz watches as heartless lumps yoga’ of silicon. Not a bit of it. ‘People say quartz hasn’t got a heart, but it has,’ he says. ‘Look at those rst Beta 21 movements: they had a heart. Yes, some people would say the quartz movement has been engineered to get rid of watchmaking, but it hasn’t; hasn’t; it is watchmaking.’ He should know. He worked with Girard-
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Bulgari, TAG Heuer and Bremont on board, as well as venerable Swiss rm Zenith. You Y ou realise that George seems less concerned with what the watch world might see as ‘correct’ than with following his own beat. For example, when interviewed by Octane [though not when photographed] he’s wearing a selfdesigned, carbon-cased TAG Heuer Monaco; black carbonbre case again, again, bright blue hands and dial indices. To To some of the watch faithful, that’s like repl replacin acingg the Mona Lisa with Snoopy, but George says: ‘is is i s the watch that marks my transformation as someone working inside the watch world. If it ever disappeared out of my collection… ‘Put ‘P ut it th this is wa wayy, a fe few w we weeksago eksago I th thou ough ghtt I’d lostitandIwentthroughabsolutelyeverything. You Y ou know, every bit of clothing; I almost searched my children until I nally found it at the boom of a bag. is is the one I’d never
he thinks there’s such an overlap between car people peo ple and wat watch ch pe peopl ople, e, he re return turnss to a famil fa milia iarr th them eme: e: ‘I th thin inkk it’s be beca caus usee we understand heart. I know it sounds strange, but a car has a beating heart and a watch has a beating heart. I think that we kind of both have an appreciation of design, of engineering, of crasmanship.’ It seems ing that his latest collaboration – with Henley-b Henley-based ased Bremont – started because of a shared love for cars. ‘I’ve known Nick and Giles [Bremont’s founders] for a while now andwe bec becamerm amerm frie friends nds whe when n I wasmoving into my oce seven years ago and they were parkingaverycoolJaguarinacarparkopposite. I alw alwayssaid ayssaid we sho shoulddo ulddo som someth ethingtoge ingtogethe ther. r.’ In the same way that all the cars in George’s garage are there to be driven, he wears his watches no maer how rare they are. ‘As well as the Monaco I’ve also got the prototype of the
Perregaux on resurrecting its 1976 Casquee LED quartz with an all-new carbonbre case and movement for the Only Watch charity auction in 2021. He’s collaborated with the La Chaux-de-Fonds watchmaker to produce its rst ceramic-cased Laureato, the white-cased Ghost. He’s also got watchmakers including
part with. You can see why, as it s a stunner. As well as being a watch designer and maker in his own right, George is also a nailed-on car fanatic. Founder of e Tyre Kicker Club, he runs a selection of Land Rovers, Porsches and even a 275 GTB in which he commutes from Oxfordshire to London. When I ask him why
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Zeniththat I cre create ated d and that Gira Girardrd-Pe Perreg rregaux aux Ghost. And you know, I’ve recently been told o by a watch person who told me “You shouldn’t wear them, they’re the rarest things on Earth!” So I replied: “Why? I wear them because they make me smile.”’ ”’ ere aren’t many beer reasons.
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Omega X-33 Flying under the radar in space more variants of the Omega Speedmaster THERE ARE PROBABLY more than an than anyy oth other er wa watch tch.. er ere’ e’s the one eve everyon ryonee kno knows: ws: the Mo Moon on Wat atch, ch, and, lately, the tie-up with Swatch for the Moon Swatch. But rather lesss wel les well-k l-kno nown wn ar aree som somee of Om Omeg ega’ a’s dig digita itall andanaandana-dig digii Spe Speedi edies es – suc suchh as th this is on one, e, th thee XX-33 33.. e X-33 sits between the experimental Alaska IV prototype and the laterX-33 la terX-33 Sk Skywa ywalke lkerr mod models els tha thatt ro rolle lledd up in 201 2014. 4. es esee wer weren en’t ’t jus justt for wannabe Buzz Lightyears, they really were (and are) own on space missions. In fact, the Russian cosmonauts on Mir were already wearing their X-33s before the launch in March 1998. ey were designed to be worn and used in space as practical, accurat accuratee measuring instruments. Indeed, they were so practical that you can see US astronaut Don Peit xingg the bu xin buons ons on his XX-33 33 witha Lea Leathe therma rmann in a You ouT Tube vid video eo.. It’ss fair to say that function trumped form with this particular Omega; It’ it’s not a prey watch. It is, however, a superb bit of kit. e case is titanium, titan ium, so it’ it’ss ligh light, t, anti antimag magnetic netic and corro corrosionsion-resis resistant tant.. Peo People ple sometimes worry about its 30m water resistance, but this one has seen the boom of a pool a couple of times and come up smiling. ere’s no need to worry about bashing an X-33 or geing it near magnets. It’ll shrug o 3500 g (yes, really) and conforms to ISO 764 for magnetic resist res istan ance ce.. It’l It’lll che cheerfu erfullytell llytell youthe tim timee to -0. -0.33 to +0. +0.55 sec second ondss perday perday.. And you must try using the 80dB alarm – it’s a sure-re meeting-ender meeting-ender.. Aim for £1900-2500.
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Not only has this watch not yet been made, but you will assemble it yourself in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The people behind the the settimana watch – noted eschewers of the upper case, ‘ochs ‘ochs and junior’ – are opening
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Books R EV I EW ED B Y OCTANE STAFF AND CONTRIBUTORS
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Lola GT, the DNA of the Ford GT40 JOHN STARKEY, Veloce, £35, ISBN 978 1 787117 83 9
BRM, Racing for Britain IAN WAGSTAF WAGSTAFF F with DOUG NYE, Porter Press Internationa International, l, £120, ISBN 978 1 913089 23 8
Too oe oen, n, BRM is sum summed med up as a ‘he ‘hero roic ic fa fail ilur ure’ e’ of postpos t-warmotor warmotor ra racin cingg but but,, as 1996 F1 World Cha Champion mpion Damo Da monn Hi Hill ll po poin ints ts ou outt in hi hiss forewo for eword, rd, it was the dou double ble victory scored by BRM and his fa fath ther er Gra Graha ham m in 196 19622 (the (t he rs rstt tim timee a Bri Britis tishh dri drive verr ha hadd bee beenn cha champi mpion on in a Bri Britis tishh car car)) tha thatt re reall allyy ma marke rkedd th thee sta start rt of Bri Britai tainn’s domina dom inance nce of the F1 ind indust ustry ry.. It wa wass rem remar arkab kably ly long lo ng-l -liv ived ed as a ra racin cingg ma marq rque ue – 19 1945 45 to1977– an andd it use usedd Bri Britishcompo tishcomponen nents ts thr throug oughou hout. t. BRM did indeedlive ind eedlive up to its fulltitle:Britis fulltitle:Britishh Raci Racing ng Mo Moto tors. rs. is all all-ne -new w boo bookk com comes es withthe re reass assura urance nce of being co-authore co-authoredd by two of the best names in the business and has further beneted from being design des igned ed by Ma MartinPort rtinPort (s (see ee the rev review iew of Trans Afica Land Rover Rover on th thee fa facin cingg pa page ge). ). Soyou ge gett th thee best of all possible worlds: in-depth yet engagin engagingg text, tex t, au autho thorit ritat ative ive cap captio tions ns – we det detect ect the ha hand nd of Dougg Nye in the Dou these se – an andd ima imagin ginat ative ive la layou yout, t, whi which ch makes ma kes bes bestt use of som somee fa fabul bulous ous pho photo tos. s. e pri print nt quality quali ty is excell excellent, ent, too too.. Following Foll owing sepa separat ratee fore foreword wordss by BRM driv driver er Sir Ja Jackie ckie St Stewa ewart, rt, Da DamonHill monHill an andd the thr three ee grands gra ndsons ons of BRM ba backe ckerr Si Sirr Alf Alfre redd Owe Owen, n, the
supe supercha rcharge rgedd 1.5-l 1.5-litre itre V16 engi engine. ne. Init Initial ial succe success ss was not sus sustai tainedand, nedand, in pa part rt due to F1 rul rulee cha chang nges, es, BRM rev revert erted ed to mor moree con conve venti ntiona onall fou fourr- an andd eight-cyli eigh t-cylinder nder units units,, winnin winningg the 1962 Champion Cha mpionship ship with its V8-e V8-engine nginedd P57. att wa a wass th thee hi highpoin ghpointt (t (the he H1 H166 en engi gine ne of 1966-1 196 6-1968 968 wasargua wasarguably bly thelow) but BRM contin con tinued ued to not notch ch up occ occasi asiona onall F1 wins unt untilil 197 1972. 2. Along the way it digressed into projects such as the Rover Rov er-B -BRM RM ga gass tur turbin binee Le Ma Mans ns carand ev even en a couple cou ple of Ca Cann-Am Am des design igns, s, all of whi which ch ar aree wel welll covere cov eredd her here; e; in fa fact, ct, the boo book’ k’ss cen centr tree spr sprea eadd is a wonderfully atmospheric panning shot of a baere baereddlooking looki ng Rover Rover-BRM -BRM durin duringg 1965’s Le Man Mans. s. Eventu Ev entually ally,, the Owen Org Organisa anisation tion withdr withdrew ew its suppor sup portt an and, d, a aer er a swa swanso nsong ng in the ha hands nds of Alf Alfre red’ d’s brother-in-law brother-in -law Louis Stanley Stanley,, the renamed StanleyBRM BR M ce ceas ased ed ra racin cingg in 19 1977 77.. e go good od ne news ws is th that at the Owe Owenn fam family ily rec recent ently ly com commis missio sioned ned Ha Hallll & Ha Hallll to bui build ld thr three ee new V16 ra racer cers. s. e boo bookk the theref refore ore conclu con cludes des witha dou double ble-p -pag agee pho photo to of one of the them m head he adinga inga fou four-s r-str trongBRM ongBRM V16 gri gridd at las lastt yea year’ r’ss Goodw Goo dwood ood Revi Reviva val.l. e sto story ry is notover yet yet.. MD
I’ve hea I’ve heard rd it sai saidd tha thatt the Fo Ford rd GT400 was one of the US GT4 USA A’s greatest grea test raci racing ng cars cars.. Eve Evenn the lm Le Mans ’66 (Ford vs Ferrari in the US US)) sug sugge geste stedd tha thatt it ha hadd comee fre com fresh sh fro from m its De Dearb arborn orn fact fa ctory ory.. Infac Infactt it gr grew ew ou outt of this th is,, th thee Lo Lola la GTMk6 co coup upé, é, desi de sign gnedand edand bu buil iltt by a ti tiny ny concer con cernn in Br Broml omley ey,, UK. Stark St arkey ey is an au autho thority rity on the subjec sub ject, t, an andd tel tells ls thi thiss sto story ry with referenc refe rencee to previ previously ously unse unseen en archi ar chive ve ma mate teria rial.l. Som Somee of the compara comp arative tive spec tabl tables es are especially espec ially rev revealin ealing, g, while old cutawayy sketches fascinate cutawa fascinate.. GW
Richard Oakes, Master of Design DOUGLAS ANDERSON, ANDERSON, Anderson & Clark, £30, ISBN 978 1 7399227 0 2
Containing many never-befor never-beforeeseenn ima see image gess anddraw anddrawing ings, s, th this is 176-page 176-p age har hardbac dbackk bring bringss together tog ether the fasci fascinati nating ng story of a tal talent ented ed spe specia cialis listt car engine eng ineer er,, who wor worked ked on ma many ny well-known projects – such as the 197 19722 No Nova, va, 197 19788 Mi Midas das an andd 1979 Duo Duonn Sierr Sierra. a. Pro Prolic lic duringthe dur ingthe 198 1980s 0s an andd 199 1990s, 0s, he als alsoo pro produ duced ced ma many ny
book starts by explaining how the marque was born out of a desire by one-time E founder Raymondd Ma Raymon Mays ys to enha enhance nce Brita Britain in’’s stat status us in motor mot or ra racin cingg a aer er Worl orldd War Two wo.. Wit Withh the ini initia tiall helpp of Alf hel Alfre redd Owe Owenn an andd Luc Lucas as In Indus dustri tries es – eventual even tually ly,, more than 350 comp companie aniess woul wouldd come on boa board rd – BRM pro produc duced ed a fan fantas tastic ticall allyy com comple plex x
stand-a stan d-alone lone desig designs. ns. His lat later er years saw Oakes involve involvedd with the fasci fascinati nating ng ADO reviv revival al proj pr ojec ect, t, wh whic ichh wa wass me mean antt tobe a re-interpr re-in terpretat etation ion of the Sebri Sebring ng Sprite Spr ite.. Worthit forthe exc excell ellent ent photos phot os and illust illustrat rations. ions. MH
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Inside the Paddock Audi RS
DAVID CROSS with BJØRN KJER, Dalton Watson, 2011, value £500
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CONSTANTIN BERGANDER, translated by PETER ALBRECHT, ALBRECHT, Dalton Watson, Watson, £59, ISBN 978 1 85443 321 3
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is metic meticulous ulously ly rese researc arched hed refer ref erenc encee sou source rce te tells lls the st story ory of all Audi Audi’’s most sportin sportingg mode models, ls, from fr om th thee ori origi gins ns of RS br bran andi dingin ngin 19944 via the ga 199 gamec mecha hangi nging ng Au Audi di Avantt RS2 to the current (sorry) Avan electri ele ctricc Aud Audii RS e-t e-tronGT ronGT.. Germann moto Germa motoring ring journ journalist alist Bergand Berg ander er also explor explores es the background of the cars, including the man manufac ufacturin turingg plan plants ts wher wheree RS mod models els ar aree pro produc duced, ed, the their ir denitively all-wheel-driv all-wheel-drivee powertrai powe rtrains, ns, and the stra strategi tegies es behind the range range.. ere are more than 400 colou colourr phot photogra ographs, phs, many ma ny exc exclus lusive ive to thi thiss boo book. k. It’s spl split it int intoo sec sectio tions, ns, ba based sed on th thee siz sizee an andd cl clas asss of ea each ch ca car: r: compact comp act RS3, upper midmid-ran range ge RS6and so on on.. So it’s ext extre reme mely ly thorough thor ough and very prof profession essionally ally
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presente presen ted, d, if a li lile le la lackin ckingg in chara cha racte cterr an andd sou soul.l. Whic Whichh som somee mightt deem appr migh appropria opriate, te, give givenn the subje subject. ct. Any drawbacks? Some of the translat tran slation ion from Germa Germann into Engli En glish sh is les lesss th than an sea seamle mless, ss, but it do does esnn’t re real ally ly ge gett in th thee wa wayy of the infor informat mation ion on oer oer.. ere ere’’s even an enorm enormousl ouslyy long long-winde -windedd explanati expla nation on of how the ‘q ‘qua uaro ro’’ branding came into being – and yes, it was at the insistence of Ferdinand Ferdina nd Piëch. GW
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oftheMonthh – an oftheMont andd itwen itwentt on to winBoo winBookk of th thee Yea earr atthe Historic Histo ric Mot Motoring oring Aw Awards ards.. e au autho thor, r, Da David vid Cr Cross oss,, was nott atall su no sure re th thata ata bo book ok devote dev otedd sol solely ely to ra race ce car transporte tran sporters rs woul wouldd sell, but it wa wass animm animmed edia iate te hi hitt an andd soonn ledto a fol soo follow low-u -up, p, , which Around Aroun d the Circuit focuse foc usedd on theother sup suppor portt vehicles seen at race meetings. Sadly Sa dly,, Da David vid nev never er go gott to see the sec second ond vo volum lumee in print; pri nt; he die diedd sho shortl rtly y aer a er sub submi miingit ingit to his publ publisher isher.. It’s the ecle eclectic ctic nature nat ure of Inside Inside the Paddock th that at ha hass ma made de
it soryendu enduring popular popul Eve very typeeringly typ anddlyag an age e of ar.. transport tra nsporter er is fea feature tured, d, from the hum humble ble (Mik (Mikee Anth Anthony’ ony’ss stretche stre tchedd and stre streamli amlined ned ’56 Standard Standa rd Vanguard atbed atbed)) to the exo exotic tic (t (the he 300 SLR SLR-b -base asedd Mercedes Merced es Renntransporter thatt inspi tha inspired red Anth Anthony’ ony’ss version). version ). Not forgeing the Citro Cit roën ën lor lorry ry use usedd by Bu Buga gai i andd dub an dubbed bed ‘Adolf’ A dolf’ a aer er the marqu ma rque’ e’s vict victory ory at the 193 19333 Avusrennen! Avusre nnen! A later reprint dented the original’ origi nal’s val value ue briey but it’ it’ss now no w ba back ck up to ab abou outt £5 £500 00.. A fun book. Ben Hort Horton on
Trans-Africa Land Rover MARTIN PORT, Porter Press International, International, £30, ISBN 978 913089 29 0
Here We Are… on Route 66 JIM HINCKLEY, HINCKLEY, Motorbooks, £28, ISBN 978 0 7603 7199 2
If you you’ve ’ve nev never er fan fancieddrivin cieddrivingg the fam famous ous Rout Routee 66, the thenn Ji Jim m Hinkley’s 208-pag 208-pagee hardba hardback ck probably prob ablyisn isn’t ’t for you. Overowing Over owing with atmo atmosphe spheric ric photos phot os thr through oughout out the easil easily y digest dig ested ed cha chapte pters, rs, it doe doess a fantas fan tastic tic job of con conden densin singg thi thiss 2400-mile 2400mile pilgri pilgrimag magee into something somet hing of an inspi inspirati rational onal guideb gui debook. ook. Eac Eachh sta state te is bro broken ken
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Kohler Koh ler le beh behind ind an inc incre redib dible le col collec lectio tionn of colour slide colour slidess and pape paperwork rwork docum documentin entingg his African trip, and the bulk of this 146-page hardba hardback ck is de devot voted ed to pre presen sentin tingg th them em in glo gloriou riouss fas fashio hion. n. Port Po rt is no mea meann writ writer er,, eit either her,, cha chartin rtingg Ko Kohle hler’ r’ss trav tr avel elss – an andd hi hiss la late terr li life fe in th thee mo movie vies, s, wh wher eree he worked on several Bond lms and Hollywood blockbusters – with an easy, easy,unforced unforced style that’s the perfect complement. Butit’s the n nal al cha chapt pter er – in whi which ch Po Port rt des describ cribes es how ho w he rev reviv ived ed an andd pr prese eserve rvedd the Ser Series ies II – tha that’ t’ss particula parti cularly rly fasci fascinati nating ng (in (incred credibly ibly,, its rear tub was stilll pa stil packe ckedd with spa spare ress andmemen andmemento toes es of tha thatt African expedition) expedition).. Best of all, he uses it regularly regularly.. Philipp Kohl Phili Kohler er would abso absolute lutely ly appr approve ove.. MD
down into town towns, s, lan landma dmarks rks and othe otherr inte interest resting ing stop stopss alon al ongg th thee wa wayy – br brin ingi gingin ngin interesti inte resting ng cultu cultural ral hist history ory of ‘e Mot Mother her Road Road’’. Be warn warned: ed: readd thi rea thiss boo bookk an andd you you’ll ’ll wan wantt to ma make ke thepilgri thepilgrima mage ge.. MH
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McIntosh describes the eye-wateringly expensive MCD1200 as a ‘digital-to-analog convertor that includes reference-level CD playback capabilities’. It boasts seven digital inputs, offers both solid-state and vacuum-tube outputs, and features traditional McIntosh styling. It is most interesting for what it represents, though, which is an investment by one of hi-fi’s heavy hitters in a format that was assumed to be well on the way to extinction. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, shipments of CDs rose from 31.6million 31.6million in 2020 to 46.6million in 2021 – the first year-o year-on-year n-year increase recorded recorded since 2004, which will be music to the ears of anyone who shares our fondness for the shiny slivers of plastic introduced 40 years ago this year. £13,995. £13,99 5. mcintosh mcintoshlabs.com labs.com
EAU ROUGE T-SHIRT
BY DEUS EX MACHINA
HERMANSEN BIKE ONE
Deus didn’t have to look far for inspiration for this new shirt: it features a drawing of one of the company’s own custom motorcycles, the Yamaha Ya maha XJR1 XJR1300-based 300-based Eau Rouge racer.
Winner of a Red Dot Design Award in 2021, the Bike One is a nimble, single-speed e-bike with an eye-catching asymmetrical frame. Its 250W motor is powered by a battery good for 40km of assisted riding on a single charge and shaped, rather ingeniously, like a water bottle.
£45. uk.deuscust uk.deuscustoms.com oms.com
From ¤3398. hermansencph.com hermansencph.com
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PLAYMOBILL KIT T MODEL PLAYMOBI Forty years ago, David Hasselhoff showed us the future when he drove onto our TV screens in a slightly annoying self-aware self-aware car, KITT – an acronym for Knight Knight Industries Two Thousand Thousand,, for those not familiar with Knight Rider . The talking Pontiac Pontiac Firebird Firebird Tr Trans ans Am was the dream car of many kids, and it has been nicely modelled by Playmobil. £69.99. playmobil.co.uk
CALLUM 529 BY ANNANDALE Car designer Ian Callum isn’t the only distinguished distinguis hed alumnus of Dumfries Academy: his school chum David Thomso Thomson n owns Annandale Distillery, Distillery, and the friends worked together on this, a single malt whisky with ‘toffee, salted caramel and chocolate notes’, offered in a ceramic bottle bottle penned by Callum. £350. annandaledistillery.com
1939 FORD COUPÉ PRINT
F1 22 The first F1 video game to be released released since EA Sports bought Codemasters Codemasters has been designed to please both those looking for true-to-life dynamics and those who just want to blast around some famous circuits, with ‘Adaptive ‘Adaptive AI’ making the game more forgiving for beginners beginners and weekend button-bashers. From £54.99. game.co.u game.co.uk k
PORSCHE 935 SCULPTURE SCULPTURE BY BENEDICT RADCLIFFE
Benedict Radcliffe is known for his life-size renderings of classic cars, but this wonderfully intricate model of the 935 – complete with sponsor logos! – won’t need its own garage. It’s a 1:7-scale piece, so it measures a manageable 59cm from nose to tail.
BY JACQUELINE DAVIES Members of the Vintage Hot Rod Association charge along the beach annually Association at the Pendine Sands Hot Rod Races (see pages 22-23), 22-23), an event captured here by the club’s resident artist,Jacqueline Davies.
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Models R E V I E W S A N D P H O T O G R A P H Y M AR K D IX O N
Classic model el Classic mod WORDS AND IMAGE: ANDREW RALSTON
MERCEDES 300 SE by Zee Toys The massive success of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars in the 1960s and ’70s led many toymakers to jump on the bandwagon – but few were as prolific as Zee Toy Toys. s. The catchy name might be thought to reflect American pronunciation pronunciat ion of the letter ‘Z’ but it actually derives from the name of the founder, Tien P
1:18 scale
1962 FERRARI 268 SP By Tecnomodel Price £259.95 Material Resincast
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1955 Ghia X ‘Gilda’ Avenue 43 £11 £111.95 1.95
1966 Jaguar FT Bertone Matrix £102.95
1935 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Spark Spar k £64.95
We featured the gas-turbine concept known as ‘Gilda’ in Octane 82, 82, and can confirm that this model is spot-on.
Handsome model of a handsome car: just two FT Coupés were built by Bertone on Jaguar 420 platforms.
Lots of lovely fine detail at a bargain price for this Le Mans Alfa model – note the long tail to store extra fuel.
Zee, who founded an import company in California in 1965 to distribute toys made in Hong Kong. The business was so successful that Mr Zee and his brother set up a further company, Zyll Enterprises, Enterpris es, to make their own diecast cars. Until the early 1990s, a huge variety of these cars were sold in the US and Europe, including some reasonably accurate 1:64 scale replicas of Formula 1 racing cars, available in the UK as part of a Texaco petrol offer. A host of different trade names were used: Zee Toy, Zylmex, Dart Wheels, Dyna Zylmex, Wheels, Pacesetters and more. Subjects varied from dragsters dragste rs to classics such as the Citroën DS, Mercedes 300 SL and Jaguar E-type. While superficially similar to Hot Wheels, the quality is inferior; they did not run as fast and the wheels were crudely moulded. The success of Zee To Toys ys was simply that they undercut the opposition on price. Even in the 1990s, some of the former Zee Toys tooling was still being used for toys sold in supermarkets, supermark ets, with the original name blanked out.
1984 Ferrari 288 GTO TopMarques To pMarques £105.95
1955 Cadillac ‘Die Valkyrie’ Brausi £129.95
1994 Bentley Dominator Kess £89.95
Oversized tyres aside, this is a fabulous replica; you can even see the engine through its slatted lid. Quite amazing.
Also featured in Octane (issue (issue 178), Die Valkyrie was a showcase for US design legend Brooks Stevens.
Intriguing model of a Sultan of Brunei commission by Pininfarina that prefigured the Bentayga by 21 years.
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While Zee Toy products are not hugely sought-after, some enthusiasts like to collect every available replica of a certain car – and this garish yellow Mercedes, with its ‘flower power’ roof sticker, does have a kitsch appeal.
Models above are to 1:43 scale and are available from Grand Prix Models, +44 (0)129 (0)1295 5 278070, www.grandprixmodels.com grandprixmodels.com
Tel 0044 (0) 1256 765443
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£115,031,000 (¤135,000,000) 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé RM Sotheby’s, Stuttgart, Germany. 5 May
£4,344,500 ($5,360,000) 2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta Bring a Trailer, online. 9 May
£3,443,000 (¤4,055,000) 1991 Williams FW14 RM Sotheby’s, Larvotto, Monaco. 14 May
£3,061,000 (¤3,605,000) 1989 Ferrari 640 RM Sotheby’s, Larvotto, Monaco. 14 May
RM sells Uhlenhaut for 135m Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-B enz auctions 300 SLR Coupé to fund environmental work THIS WAS ALWAYS supposed
to be one of the cars
that Mercedes-Benz never sell. On 5built May, was May, one of the two 300 SLRwould Uhlenhaut Coupés oered by RM Sotheby’s to a very carefully selected group gro up of buy buyers ers at the Me Merce rcedesmuseumin desmuseumin Stu Stuga gart. rt. e gavel fell with a nal bid of €135,000,000. Notonly anaston anastonish ishinggure inggure,, whic whichh hasobviou hasobviously sly broken all records when talking about published and veried prices, but one that’s that’salso also nally answered the oenn pon oe ponder dered ed que questio stionn of ‘howmuch? ‘howmuch?’’ whentalki whentalking ng about these until now simply unaainable cars. Perhaps Perh aps more signic signicant ant is the reasoning behind the sale of this car. e money raised is being used to set up the Mercedes-Benz Fund, which aims to provide research, scholarships and education about the en enviro vironme nment nt and dec decarb arbonis onisati ation on for futu future re generations. It’s also important to note that Mercedes stillowns thesecondUhlen thesecondUhlenha haut ut – whic whichh caneasilybe
£2,201,000 (¤2,592,500) 1973 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona RM Sotheby’s, Larvotto, Monaco. 14 May
for €2,5 €2,592,5 92,500, 00, plu pluss a one one-own -owner er Po Porsch rschee 911 Carrera RSto2.7 Lightweight at €1,287,500. anks Covid, Bonhams returned to Monaco forr on fo only ly th thee r rst st tim timee in ov over er fo four ur ye year ars. s. Sa Sale less to tota tall lled ed €13,223,007, with a solid 75% rate. e 1927 Bugai Type 35B sold for €2,000,000 €2,000,000,, top toppin pingg the sale guress – even at the lower end of its estimate. gure estimate. Next up was a 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS Convertible at a reasonable €1,495,000. Porsches were on the money, too,, with a 198 too 19888 Po Porsch rschee 959 Komfort Komfort mak making ing €1,437, €1,4 37,500and 500and a 1997911 GT2real GT2realisin isingg €1, €1,046, 046,500 500.. Surprise of the sale was a 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM at an eye-opening €414,000. BonhamsalsoreturnedtoGreenwich,Connecticut, for a live auction for the rst time since 2019 – achieving sales of $5,920,556 and a 94% rate. Top seller was a 1929 Bentley 4½ Litre Tourer, which aracted healthy bidding to a nal $604,500 gure.
£2,105,500 (¤2,480,000)
1971 Lamborghini Miura SV RM Sotheby’s, Larvotto, Monaco. 14 May
£1,761,000 £1,7 61,000 ($ 2,200,000) 1965 Brawner Hawk Ford ‘Dean Van Lines Special’ Mecum, Indianapolis, USA. 21 May
£1,723,500 £1,7 23,500 (¤2,030,000) 1958 BMW 507 Series II RM Sotheby’s, Larvotto, Monaco. 14 May
£1,723,500 £1,7 23,500 (¤2,030,000)
identied by its blue RM followed this interior. with its usual Monaco auction, which ran alongside the GP Historique and totalled €30,918 €30, 918,292and ,292and 82% 82%.. It wasdomin wasdominat ated ed by the sal salee of Nigel Mansell’s ‘Senna Taxi’ 1991 Williams FW14 (pictured right) for €4,055,000. Mansell also oered his 1989 Ferrari 640, which made €3,605,000. Other highlights included a US-spec ’73 Ferrari 365 GTS/4
1965 Ferrari 275 GTB RM Sotheby’s, Larvotto, Monaco. 14 May
£1,700,500 £1,7 00,500 (¤2,000,000) 1927 Bugatti Type 35B Bonhams, Monte Carlo, Monaco. 13 May 181
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DAVE KINNEY’S USA ROUND-UP
1966 Meyers Manx RM Sotheby’ Sotheby’s, s, Sand Lots online auction, USA 25 May – 1 June In the early 1960s, American highways were mostly lled with domestic brands, but Volkswagen’s venerable Beetle really made inroads into the marketplace. Te VWs had a reputation for being tough, but even they could succumb to rust – or accidents. Tis is where engineer and surfer Bruce F Meye Meyers rs stepped in, with w ith a lile help from the growin growingg surng culture and California dream/endless summer lifestyle. Meyers developed a kit that involved removing almost all of the VW ’s body,shortening body, shortening the chassis, and adding wider wheels and a roll-over bar. Tis lightweight – and distinctly un-weatherproof! – glassbre-bodied beach buggy was a weekend (or ve) DIY project that appealed appealed to many Americans of the time. Early advertising showed Meyers behind the wheel of a Manx in mid-ight over a sand s and dune; it was a pitch-perfect product that was in the right place at the right time. It also had real street cred cr ed,, th than anks ks towinni towinning ng th thee ve very ry r rst st Me Mexic xican1000 an1000 (no now w Ba Baja ja 10 1000 00)) o o--
In the end, the Manx was a victim of its own success, with dozens of imitators popping up in factories and garages worldwide. As many as 6000 examples were built, but Meyers was unable to secure a patent for his idea and the company succumbed to bankruptcy. Tis Lime Green 1966 Meyers Manx (titled as a 1959 Volkswagen) is said to be less than 150 units into production, and sold for $37,400. It’s a well-kept example, said to have its original gel-coat, and was a bargain at that price.
road race, besting trucksstreet-legal. and motorcycles. Depending on where you lived, theother Manxcars, Manx was even street-leg al.
Dave Kinney is an auction analyst, an expert on the US market scene, and publishes the Hagerty Price Guide.
2006 Ford Mustang Shelby Mecum Auctions, Indianapolis
This is one of 500 Shelby GT-H coupés built for Hertz in 2006, commemorating the first time Shelby and Hertz got together 40 years earlier – stories from which live on today. In Hertz’s corporate black-with-gold-stripes black-withgold-stripes livery, with black leather interior, this example had covered only 8225 miles and looked very clean throughout. It was well-bought at $36,300.
AUCTION TRACKER MC LAREN McLaren may have struggled to fill its order book for the £540,000 F1 when it was launched in 1992 during a global recession, but today its rarity and game-changing engineering mark it out as the Holy Grail among collectors. Finding one of the 64 road cars at auction is never going to be an easy mission. In the past ten years only six have been offered, five of which sold. The following list puts into £20,000,000
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CAR OF THE MONTH
1966 Cord 8/10 Sportsman Mecum Auctions, Indianapolis
Based on the 1937/38 Gordon Buehrig design for the ‘Coffin Nosed’ Cord 810/81 810/812, 2, the 8/10 was so named because it was eight-tenths eight-ten ths the size of the original. Built with a body made of Royalite expanded plastic (a product of US Rubber/Uniroyal), this tired yet serviceable convertible sold at a market-correct $15,950. Stylish and different for not a lot of money.
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perspective the F1’s meteoric rise in value over recent years: an ex-Sultan of Brunei F1 with 3200 miles fetched $1,705,000 $1,705,000 ( £1,395,000) in 2006 at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale; four years later Gooding & Co sold a two-owner example with similar miles for $3,575,000 (£2,924,000); by 2013 Gooding had established a new benchmark when it achieved $8,470,000 (£6,928,000) for a
German-delivered 13,900-miler. RM signalled another significant upturn in prices in 201 2015 5 when a 6000km F1, upgraded to LM-spec, made $13,750,000 (£11,247,000), before Gooding set the current auction record at $20,465,000 (£16,739,000) for a timewarp car (pictured), finished in Creighton Brown and with only 390km, at Monterey in 2021. Tom Hartley Jnr, who has sold even more F1s privately, explains the market. ‘This is a road car that needed very few alterations before it went racing in 1995: a passenger seat was removed, a rear wing
a GTR recently traded well above $30,000,000 and if one of the LMs were on the market today, the number would probably start with a four! It is important to buy one that hasn’t suffered any major accident damage and has been wellmaintained. We find the best people
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added, a few modifications plus very littlebody else and it won the 24 Hours of Le Mans on its first outing. ‘We’ve sold seven different examples in the last few years alone and prices range between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000, depending on mileage, provenance and original specification. However,
to service or restore one of these cars are Lanzante – coincidentally also the people who ran the winning car at Le Mans.’ Rod Laws
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The original Bond’s DB5 Broad Arrow Auctions, Monterey Monterey,, USA 18 August ALTHOUGH THIS ISN’T a
genuine Bond car – at least in the sense that it never appeared inoneofthelms–itdoeshaveoneparticularly specia spe ciall own owner er in its his history tory le: Sir Sean Connery. Te Scoish actor who rst played Bond in the lm franchise bought this car later in life, having always loved the DB5 but never owned one. Connery enlisted the help of specialist RS Williams to track down a suitable car, and DB5/1681/R was sourced. It was an original
to tellyou, the origi original nal lm carsweren carsweren’t ’t actu actually ally painted in Silver Birch but a slightly darker shadeknow sh adeknown n as Sno Snow w Sh Shad adow ow Gr Grey ey.. Tisis the colour that Connery requested RS Williams to repaint his DB5, which had originally le the factory in black. Sincethen,the Si ncethen,the DB5has be been en se servic rviced ed by RS Williams, and is oered aer aer a recent thorough thorough service and inspection in preparation for the auction. auct ion. Oered Oered for sale directly directly from the Connery estate, Broad Arrow has placed an
If bidding on Sir Sean Connery’s personal DB5isn’t eno DB5isn’t enoughof ughof a dra draw w to theauct theauctio ion, n, the there re are two other sweeteners on oer. First, the Connery family has commied to donating a signi sig nica cant nt po portio rtion n of the sal salee pro proce ceeds eds to benet the Sean Sean Connery Philanthropy Philanthropy Fund. Fund. Nott onl No onlyy tha that, t, butF1 leg legendSir endSir Ja Jacki ckiee Ste Stewar wartt – an old friend of Connery – has oered to take the new owner of the DB5 out for a drive in the car. ca r. Ta Tat’ t’ss an ho hono nour ur in it itse self, lf, bu butt als also o an opportunity to hear a bit more about Sir Sean
rig right ht-ha -handnd-dri drive ve UK ca car, r,by which whi chspecialist. wass giv wa given en a full ‘mechanical freshening’ the As any real Bond Aston nerd will be able
estimate of $1.4-1.8million $1.4-1.8m illionat onitsthe car – which will go under the hammer inaugural sale at the Monterey Jet Center.
from lifelong friend who, like Connery, has taken tak en apri pride de in cha charita ritablework blework for man many y dec decade ades. s. broadarrowauctions.com broadarrowauctions. com
Made in Switzerland Bonhams, Gstaad, Switzerland 3 July THE SWIS SWISS S OFFS OFFSHOO HOOT T of Ghia, Ca Ghia, Carro rross sseri eriee Gh Ghia ia-Ai -Aigle gle bodied appro approximately ximately ten Alfa Romeos between 1948 and 1988, includingg this particularly striking includin 1958 Alfa Romeo 1900C Super Sprint Barche Barchea. a. It was originally commis commissioned sioned
his wife found out so the Alfa was sent se nt in into to st stor orag agee fo forr 30 ye years ars.. It wa wass lib liber erat ated ed in thelate1980 thelate1980ss by a Belgianowner,who eventu eventually ally showed the car at Villa d’Este in 2001. Aer it was acquir acquired ed by the current vendor in 2013, both the engi en gine ne an and d su susp spen ensi sion on we were re
by wealthy yn for Swiss businessman ssman. witha awealth passion passio Rivabusine speedboats spee dboats. He wanted Ghia-Aigle to build a car styled just like a speedboat – with no openin openingg doors or boot and a wrap wraparo around und winds windscre creen. en. Te story goes that it was bought for the rst owner’s mistress, but
res restor ed. It’or s thou thought thattalthe tha paint pai nt andtored. interi interior are ght origin original and in great shape shape.. Rather appropriately, it will be oered by Bonhams at the Swiss Alpine resort resort of Gstaa Gstaad, d, where it’s it’s estimat esti mated ed to sellfor CHF300,0 CHF300,00000400,000. bonhams.com
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AUCTION DIARY Please confirm details with auction houses before travelling 22 June
Brightwells, online H&H, Duxford, UK 23 June
Brightwells, online 24 June
Barons, Southampton, UK Bonhams, Goodwood, UK 26 June
1977 Renault 4 TL
1921 Talbot-Darracq V20 16hp Tourer
Charterhouse, Sherborne, Dorset, UK 6 July, charterhouse-cars.com
Silverstone Auctions, Broadway, UK 5 August, silverstoneauctions.com
We can’t help but love a good Renault 4, and this UK-spec 1977 TL looks like a real delight. Finished in bronze with a tan interior, it’s very original and with just 45,000 miles it appears to have lived an easier life than many of the careworn French examples you’ll find on Leboncoin. It’s apparently been driven daily since the end of winter without any problems, which is hardly a surprise, and it’s estimated to sell for £7000-9000.
Sometimes we can’t help but point out just how affordable pre-war cars can be. This 1921 TalbotDarracq V20 was formerly part of the celebrated Sword Collection, and is presented in great shape. Not only a fine candidate for many VSCC events, this powerful 3.0-litre Tourer is said to cruise effortlessly at 45mph, which makes it extremely usable. The price? It’s estimated at £18,000-22,000.
Aguttes, Paris, France 29 June
Charterhouse, Sparkford, UK (motorcycles) 30 June – 2 July
Barrett-Jackson, Barrett-Jackso n, Las Vegas, USA 2 July
Artcurial, Le Mans, France Dorotheum, Vösendorf, Austria Austria 3 July
Bonhams, Gstaad, Switzerland 6 July
Charterhouse, Sparkford, UK 6-9 July
Mecum, Orlando, USA 16 July
Historics, Datchet, UK 18 July
Osenat, Fontainebleau, France 20 July
H&H, Bickenhill, UK (motorcycles)
1982 Mercedes-Benz SL ‘Trans-Am’
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL
Mecum, Monterey, California, USA 18-20 August, mecum.com
RM Sotheby’s, Monterey, California, USA 19-20 August, rmsothebys.com
Here’s an SL with a difference. It’s the DeAtley Motorsport/Michelob Trans-Am racer, which was built from the ground up for the 1982 season. The 5.0-litre engine was destroked by Edwin Hatch to the regulation 4.5 litres, and it received a glassfibre widebody. Presented today with the original paint and handlettering, letterin g, it comes with many spare parts and panels. Mecum has not attempted to estimate a value, however.
The 14th of 29 ‘lightweight’ alloy-bodied Gullwings built, and one of the few with its matching-numbers 3.0-litre NSL engine still in place. This one was previously owned by expert Hans Kleissl of HK-Engineering, and has more recently gone through a comprehensive two-year restoration by Gullwing specialist Robert Platz. A proven veteran of the Mille Miglia Storica and exhibited at Amelia Island, it’s estimated at $7,000,000-9,000,000.
23 July
Cheffins, Cambridge, UK 27July
H&H, Buxton, UK 27-30 July
Mecum, Harrisburg, USA 27 July – 3 August
RM Sotheby’s, online 29 July
Barons, Southampton, UK SWVA, online 29-30 July
Mathewsons, online Vicari, Dalton, USA
ALSO LOOK OUT FOR… The Gibson Les Paul Standard known to all as Lucy began life as a 1957 ‘goldtop’ but was refinished in cherry red for Rick Derringer, who had acquired it from The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian. It was later owned by Eric Clapton and by George Harrison – and, briefly, by one Miguel Ochoa… Ochoa, a Mexican, bought the
in Mexico before anything could be done by those trying to recover the instrument. Harrison wouldn’t let things lie, though, and enlisted a US-based friend of Ochoa to arrange a deal. Lucy (named after redhead Lucille Ball) was returned in exchange for this sunburst 1958 Les Paul Standard, bought from noted dealer Norm Harris.
30 July
Richard Edmonds, Showell, UK 2-9 August
Shannons, online 3 August
Brightwells, online 5 August
Silverstone Auctions, Broadway, UK 18 August
Ochoa, a Mexican, bought the guitar on a trip to the USA in 1973, from Whalin’s Sound City in LA. Both parties were unaware it had just been b een pinched pin ched from fr om Harrison’s Har rison’s Beverly Hills home, but Whalin’s should have waited 30 days before selling it. Thanks to the shop’s disregard for the law, Lucy was
noted dealer Norm Harris. The ’58, which Harrison viewed as a ransom payment, will be sold by Heritage Auctions in Dallas on 24 September and, as a largely original example of the coveted ’58-60 ‘Burst’, with an interestin interesting g history, it is likely to fetch several hundred thousand dollars.
Broad Arrow Auctions, Monterey, USA 18-20 August
Mecum, Monterey, USA IN ASSOCIATION WITH
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1973 JAGUAR XJ12 PF POA
Bought off the Barcelona show stand by a Saudi Arabian prince, this Pininfarina styling proposal was imported to Sweden 30 years ago from a scrapyard. In dire need of restoration, but will be worth it. trianglemotor.com (SE) T T O C S M I T
1976 Aston Martin V8 £95,000 £95 ,000 from f rom Richards of England, Lincoln, UK WITHOUT THE LATER Vantage Vantage’s ’smore more aggressive bodywork and larger wheels, there’s something very appealing about the original William Towns V8. It canbe ha hard rd to kee keep p tra track ck of the va variou riouss ite itera ration tions, s, but the pre-‘Oscar pre-‘Oscar India’ V8 does without w ithout the rear spoiler spoi ler or front airdam while representing a big evolution from the DBS and DBS-V8 – initially powered by a powerful Bosch fuel-injected engine. engine. Oered by Richards of England, this V8 is nished in its original shade of Cairngorm Brown – and the
acquired the V8 it remained with her for over three decade dec ades. s. By 199 1990 0 it req requir uiredsome edsome wel weldin dingg to thesills, which was undertaken by HWM Aston Martin. It was also given a full f ull repaint the same year. It then went directly to Aston Martin Lagonda for further structural work the following year, as well as what can only be described as a comprehensive mechanica mech anicall rest restorati oration on – despit despitee theregularservicing. MoT certicates suggest that, following this work, the V8 was given a rest from regular use, covering a
larger scoop signies that it features later We Weber berbonnet carbureor-fed 5.3-litre engine, withthe 310bhp from fro m thefact thefactory ory.. Ev Eventhis enthis aut automa omaticvaria ticvariant nt cou could ld hit 62mph in 6.2sec and go on to 146mph. Ordered new in the UK by Ahmed Abdelghani of Aramco Oil, one of the best things about this car is is its full fullyy doc docume umente nted d hist history ory.. Eac Each h of its sev seven en own owners ers has mai mainta ntaine ined d the V8 cor corre rectl ctlyy, inc includ luding ing the rectication of many common V8 issues over the years. It change changed d owners three times t imes between 1976 and 1981, but when Mrs Eileen Elizabeth Berthet
lile over 2500 miles overhistory the next decade. still plenty of maintenance during thisere’s time. Its current owner bought the V8 in 2016, since when he has spared no expense ex pense in bringing what was an already good car up to a much higher standard. In 2017 20 17 it wa wass se sent nt to St Stra rao on n Mo Moto torr Co Comp mpan anyy fo forr a ful fulll bare-metalrespray bare-metal respray back to its glorious original colour. Straon has maintained the car since, undertaking signi sig nica cant nt wo work rk ea each ch ye year ar to ma make ke th this is a ve very ry presentable and incredibly usable example. richardsofengland.com
2000 SUBARU IMPREZA 2.5RS $ 30,000
Despite being naturally aspirated, the entertaining two-door 2.5 RS is an interesting part of Subaru’s USA story. Finding an unmodified one is tricky, so this original 57k-mile car is priced accordingly. lbilimited.com (US)
1997 PORSCHE 993 TARGA, POA
The 993 Targa wasn’t really a Targa in the traditional sense, but the sliding glass roof and Tiptronic transmission in this well-historied Ocean Blue example might make it the ultimate cruising-spec 993. hendonwaymotors.co.uk (UK)
1956 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE AUD $74,995
This ‘Cal-Look’ isn’t one for the purists. Based on a 1956 Type 1, it has a 1969 independent rear suspension set-up and is powered by a US-built 2.3-litre flat-four pushing out over 135bhp. classicthrottleshop.com (AU) 186
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Renault 5 GT Turbo Forget the 205 GTI: GTI: this was France France’’s quickest 1980s hot hatch IF AT AN ANY Y point in the past 40 years you’ve been in the market for a hot hatch, chances are there’s been a Renault fairly high on your list. e modern RS Meganess are some of the nest-handling cars of their Megane generation, and the Clio Williams became a member of hothatc hothatch h roy royalt altyy theseco thesecond nd it wen wentt on sal sale.But e.But the
In truth, the carbureed engine hadn’t evolved all that much, although power was up to 115bhp, and a smaller small er Garr Garre e T2 turboimprovedthe powe powerr deliv delivery ery over the Gordini’s laggy response, while an air-to-air intercooler kept the output a bit more consistent. With early cars weighing 820kg, the GT Turbo was
company’s hotinhatch legacy forged 1980s, thanks no small part was to the 5 GT during Turbo. the Renaul Ren aultt emb embra race ced d tur turboc bochar hargin gingg dur during ing the 1980s, 198 0s, pla playingo yingo its mot motorsp orsport ort suc succe cess ss to inv invigo igora rate te its high-performance models. e legend began with the mid-engined 5 Turbo in 1980, a re-breathing Group 4 rally car that really didn’t share much with the road car. It did, however, lay the groundwork for the fro frontnt-eng engine ined d 5 Gor Gordin dinii Turb urbo o in 1982 1982,, powered by the unsophisticated pushrod eight-valve 1.4-litre Cléon engine. e turbocharger made for a very healthy 110bhp, so it was prey quick, but there was no geing away awayfrom from the 5’sageing underpinnings and cramped, dated interior. In 198 1984, 4, the Ren Renaul aultt ‘S ‘Supe uperci rcinq’ nq’ sol solved ved the problem at a stroke. is was an all-new 5 based on thelarger thelarg er 11,wrappe 11,wrapped d up in a sma smartrt-loo lookin kingg Ga Gandi ndinini-
aseconds, seriouslyand quick 0-60mph was in 7.5 it car: would run out ofdispatched steam at about 120mph 120 mph.. Itwasn Itwasn’t ’t a one one-tr -trick ick pon ponyy, eit either her.. Getthe car onto some twisty roads and it was entertaining and capable, yet very trustworthy on the limit. In 1987 the Phase 2 model brought in some small but important changes. e turbocharger was watercooled, watercool ed, and a small underbonnet fan helped to prevent fuel evaporation – a problem that le the Phase 1 reluctant to re-start when warm. Ignition mapping tweaks brought the power up to 120bhp, while visual changes included a new grille, updated wheels and colour co-ordinating the bodykit. It was built until the end of 1991, with wit h the run-out r un-out all-blue Raider edition making way for the Clio in 1992. roughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the GT Turbo was a favourite within the modifying scene.
THE LOWDOWN WHAT TO PAY
As with 205s, low-mileage original examples are a law unto themselves, with the best fetching £ 20,000-pl 20,000-plus. us. Expect to pay upwards of £10,000 for a well-maintained example with good history and all of its original parts intact. There are plenty of with good potential in cars the sub£7000 category category – perfect if you aren’t bothered by a few period modifications or something needing work. WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR
Beyond the obvious crash damage, check for rust around the windscreen, tailgate and under the plastic wheelarch trims. Engines are very strong, but poor tuning can lead to various issues. Check for any signs of head gasket failure, as well as blue smoke, which
styled – and it paved the way for the hot GT Turbopackage version that arrived in 1985. Compared with the standard R5, the suspension was lowered by 38mm, and made substantially stier with an additional torsion rod at the rear, plus a pair of thicker anti-roll bars. An unpainted plastic bodykit, distinctive 13-inch alloy wheels and yellow foglights completed the visual transformation. 188
Cheap, fun andabout easy to tune to sillyand levels, many at cars were mucked with, crashed abused. means nding a tidy car has been dicult for years – farmore so tha than n an equ equiva ivalen lentt Gol Golff or 205GTI. Dri Drive ve a good one today, though, and you’ll nd it’s worth the eort. ere’s a cracking chassis to enjoy, but it’s the addictive hit of boost from 2500rpm that really drives this ’80s nostalgia trip. Mathew Hayw Hayward ard
could indicate a tired turbo. Interiors weren’t the best quality, and plastics have become even more brittle with age. Make sure it’s all in one piece, and that all the buttons and switches work. Thankfully, replacementt fabric is now replacemen available availabl e for the seats.
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1990 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante Zagato Rolls Royce Blue with magnolia leather and blue piping. 1 of 37 volantes produced, produced, of which this is 1 of only 5 RHD Zagato volantes volantes made with the V8 Vantage engine, engine, 9,242 9,242 miles.
2015 Aston Martin V12 Zagato (LHD) Sunburst yellow (Q deparment colour) with obsidian black analine hides and contras contrastt yellow stitching. stitchi ng. 1 of only 61 produced and believed to be the only example in this colour colour,, 395 miles.
2018 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante Zagato (LHD)
Cairngorm brown (Q department colour) with ivory rekona & bitter chocolate leather interior and a bitter chocolate hood. Number 69 of 99 produced, a ne owner car ordered and delivered new in the UK. 312 miles.
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Te ex-Stirling Moss, Goodwood and Monaco eligible 1953 Cooper-Alta Grand Prix
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2011/11 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. AMG Le Mans Red with Exclusive Designo Leather. 28,820 Miles. £174,850
2009/59 Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe. New Sable Metallic with Black Hide. 24,265 Miles. £169,850
2010/60 Porsche 997.2 GT2 RS. White with Black and Red interior. 7,373 Miles. £389,850
2019/69 Ferrari 812 Superfast. Verde Abetone with Cuoio Hide. 4,015 Miles. £299,850
2021/70 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG. Olive Green with Black Leather. Leather. 4,153 Miles. £189,850
2019/69 Bentley Continental Number 9. Veridian Green with Black Hide. 4,100 Miles. £199,850
1991/H Daimler Double-Six Series III. Diamond Diamon d Blue Meta Metallic llic with Cre Cream am Leat Leather her.. 40,000 Miles. £39,850
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1991/H Mercedes-Benz 300 TE 4Matic. Brilliant Silver Metallic with Grey Leather. 113,334 Miles. £24,850
2019/19 Ferrari Lusso T. Grigio Alloy with Nero Nero Hide.
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Jet Black • Black Nomex Bucket Seats 19” Orange GT3 Wheels Wheels • Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes Brakes • Satellite Navigation • Rear Roll Roll Cage • 15,441 miless • 2007 (07) mile
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Agate Grey • Black Leather Sports eats • PDK Gearbox Gearbox • 20” Carrera Carrera Classic Wheels • Touchscreen Satellite Satellite Navigation Navig ation • Swit Switchab chable le Spor Sports ts Exha Exhaust ust Sport Spo rt Ch Chron rono o • 49, 49,234 234 mil miles es • 201 2013 3 (13 (13))
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This example is specified with Body colour styling package, Park assist package, Head up display, Sensonum premium sound system, DAB radio. 11,000 miles. £244,990
Park assist with rear view camera, Fully electric heated seats, Transparent engine cover, Sensonum premium sound, Dab radio. 11,000 11 ,000 miles. £239,990
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transmission, Tubi exhaust system. 25,000 miles. £174,990
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Rolls Royce Wraith V12
Fully electric and memory front seats, Heated and memory front seats with massage function, Electric rear seats with massage function, Rear seat middle console. 20,000 miles. £304,990
Rear camera with top view, Active cruise control, Side view camera, TV function, Head up display display,, DAB tuner, Night vision, Full service history from ew. 31,000 Miles. £194,990
Starlight headlining, Head up display, Bespoke Audio, Comfort access, Fully electric and memory front seats, Night vision with object recognition, 25,000 Miles. £132,990
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Land Rover Ranger Rover P400 SE
Valcona Leather stitching with the honeycomb quilted design, RS embossed - Sports Seats, Rear side airbags and RS ceramic brakes, 4,000 Miles. £179,990
This example comes with Clubsport package, Carbon ceramic brakes, Carbon fibre interior package, Carbon bucket seats, Carbon fibre sill plates. 6,000 Miles. £169,990
SV extended leather, Gloss black veneer, Gloss wood and leather multifunctional steering wheel, Meridian 3D surround sound system, Heads up display, Privacy glass. 250 Miles. £154,990
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Porsche 718 Cayman GT
Audi R8 V10 Plus
This car comes equipped with Bucket seats with Porsche logos, Porsche CD player and radio, Climate control, Air conditioning, Steel brakes with Red brake callipers. 6,400 Miles. £109,990
Carbon fibre bucket seats, Sports chrono package, Cruise control, LED main headlights with Porsche dynamic light system plus, Bose surround sound system, 550 Miles. £108,990
Sound and comfort pack, Driver assistance pack, Audi sport pack, LED headlights with Audi laser light and high beam assist. 18,000 miles. £87,990
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1933 TALBOT AV105 One of only a handful of Alpine bodied cars by the works period. Continuous history since and a well known car, this is a fantastic car for the world’s best motoring events including Hampton Court, Goodwood, Mille Miglia, and Le Mans Classic. A matching numbers car with pre-selector gearbox, it is faster and easier to drive than many post war cars.
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AC COBRA MKIII 427 CONTINUA CONTINUATION TION - £315,000 Ex race AC Cobra MkIII MkIII 427, fresh HTP valid to 31/12/2030, Le-mans Le-mans hardtop, hardtop, correct side oiler 427 engine engine / 4 speed gearbox, extensive restoraon by Redline Engineering UK.
AC CRS - £78,000 £78,0 00
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Giallo Fly / Grey Interior, Interior, 5.0 ltr V8 engine / manual gearbox, 4 owners. Ex London Motor Motor show in 1999 with AC Cars.
1961, Opalescent Silver, Blue interior, 100th FHC built, original UK supplied, all matching numbers, fully restored absolutely stunning.
AC COBRA MKIV - £135,000
PORSCHE PORSC HE 991.2 CARRERA CARRERA S - PDK - £79,995
Cobalt Blue / Grey leather interior, 8,890 miles, exceponal condion throughout, Ford SVO SVO V8 engine, manual gearbox, the the very last MkIV MkIV to be built by AC Cars.
Carrera White Metallic / Black Interior, 2 owners,16,000 miles, FPSH with Porsche extended warranty, huge spec.
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Registered 07/06/2010 and has covered only Registered 2975 miles. Powered by an awesome 383ci 6300cc Chevrolet stroker stroker by Mike Huddart 5 Speed manual gear box and LSD. £45,995
Registered 01/12/2020. Finished Finishe d in unmarked JWA Gulf spec livery Powered by a FORD 302ci 5000cc V8. A super looking GT40 £79,995
This stunning 356 Speedster by Chesil motor company is registered 23/12/1970 and retains Historic Vehicle status (TAX Exempt). 25180 recorded miles. Powered by a VW 1800cc flat 4 engine with twin single choke webber carburetto carburettors. rs. £33,500
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ICONIC 387 Speedster
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SVA/IVA Registered 01/03/2017 Only 1773 recorded miles. Powered by a 5.7 Litre, 350ci Chevrolet V8, A superb looking and
BESPOKE COACH BUILT ON THE PORSCHE 987 BOXSTER PLATFORM. Built from a 52035 Mile, 2006, 2.7L, Manual Porsche 987. Bespoke heated windscreen, Air conditioning, Cruise control, Electric windows, CD player, Computer etc. Speed reacting elevating stability spoiler. Fully loaded and ready to drive away. £59995
Only 1180 recorded miles. Powered by an alumini aluminium um Rover V8 3500cc engine. Wet weather Hood and side screens.
Correctly SVA/IVA registered 01/09/201 01/09/2017 7 This absolutely amazing MK11 leaf sprung Cobra was built at the Shelby licensed factory / Hi-tech. IVA/SVA Registered with Lemans Coupes (Superformance uk agent) 01/03/2021. Only 366 miles from new. Powered by a correct Ford 1965 289ci 5 bolt V8 supplied by Dodkins Motorsports, 331 bhp spec. Only 3 correctly imported and registered cars known of in the uk. This is the best of the best 289. £99,995
Manufactured under licence at the Shelby / Hi Tech / Superformance factory. Powered by an awesome Ford V8 Supplied and built by ROUSH to 402ci ,6600cc ,515bhp / 500 lbft spec. TWM/Borla 8 Stack Electronic fuel injection polished throttle bodies. £79,995
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Aston Martin Projec t 214 continuation built in the late eighties to the highest standard. Owned by me since 2006 and campaigned at most of the European circuits including Le Mans, Spa, Dijon and Barcelona GP circuit. Also raced at Laguna Seca in 2011 where it took first place in both of the events entered. It is an exact copy of the only remaining Project 214 as raced at Le Mans in 1963.
1960 Aston Martin DB4 built to DB4 GT spec. The specification includes a 12 plug cylinder head, a long range fuel tank, correct GT seats, frameless windows and Borrani wire wheels. Left hand drive and French registered so no duties to pay when importing into Europe. Competitively priced at £595,000
1958 Aston Martin DB MkIII finished in Elusive Blue with contrasting burgundy hide interior. The previous custodian spent over £80,000 on sensible upgrades over his 20-year ownership. These included a power enhancement and further
1952 Aston Martin Le Mans Lightweight finished in Aston Racing green. 1952 Extensively raced in recent years at both the Le Mans Classic and in the Woodcote Trophy. The specification is extremely close to the original Aston
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1937 ASTO ASTON-MAR N-MARTIN TIN 2L RACING RACING CAR | £250,0 £250,000 00 This well-developed 1937 Aston-Martin racing car has outstanding racing history, including multiple Le Mans Classic appearances. Built on a shortened Aston-Martin 15/98 chassis, it includes a gas flowed Speed Model spec engine, hydraulic brakes, upgraded suspension, lightweight wheels, racing tyres and a beautiful tool room copy of an ‘Ulster-bodied’ Speed Model lightweight body. Ecurie Bertelli has been responsible for maintaining this car for many years. Freshly prepared and track tested by us it is 100% ready to race, with current FIA HTP papers and an entry for Le Mans Classic. When paired with Ecurie Bertelli’s race support, this car will be competitive and reliable straight away in 2022. The car comes complete with a tailored spares package including a performance exhaust, a wired-in transponder, removable roll hoop and belts, fire extinguisher and a Race Logic V Box system.
Whilst extremely fast and competitive in a circuit environment it is also a straightforward and enjoyable drive off the track, and would easily serve as a very competent road rally car. For more details or to arrange a test drive of this desirable piece of motoring history, contact Robert Blakemore.
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1972 Ferrari “400” GTC4
1973 Dino Ferrari 246 GT
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MATCHING MA TCHING NUMBERS A stunning example of a late series E sll finished in the original factory colour
following a restoraon by the Sytner Group in the early 2000’s. In 1986 it was fied with a new Ferrari 400 Gt engine by Maranello Concessionaires under the supervision of Col.Ronnie Hoare, Chairman of Maranello Concessionaires, which gives an addional 20 bhp. It is one of just 31 examples officially imported, with just 19 remaining taxed or SORN’d. The car is currently fied with Borrani wire wheels and comes with both wires wires and original alloy wheels. A documented history from new with a file of past invoices invoices detail past
scheme. Body restored, interior retrimmed by Rob O’Rourke. Mechanically Mechanically refurbished. Matching numbers. Total Total ownership history from new along with original warranty booklet. One of the 488 officially imported by Maranello Concessionaires Ltd of which just 232 remain taxed or SORN’d. Please contact Mike Wheeler for further details and to arrange viewing
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1951 Ferrari 212 Inter: Mille Miglia -1952, 1954. Fully sorted.
1960 Mercedes Benz 190SL: Matching numbers. Concours quality.
1969 Lola T163-17: Ex Penske/Donohue. Alloy-inj Chevy.
1958 AC Aceca: Superbly restored. Matching numbers.
1974 Jaguar XKE V12: Stunning roadster, roadster, 18k miles, 2 tops.
1958 MGA Twin Cam: Frame-up restoration.. Iconic sports car. restoration
1980 Ferrari GTSi: Outstanding cosmetic & mechanical condition.
1985 COBRA Autokraft MK IV: Continuing Shelby’s legacy; 12k miles.
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orig original inal gear gearbox, box,trims, original orig inal five-stud fivestud rearr axle rea axle, matching cockpit all original body panels and, complete comple te chro chrome me asrequir asrequired ed fora high high-sta -standar ndard d job. Even small components such as the original heater, horn push and instrumentation are retained so that the finished item will be correct. £26,500. Tel: +44 (0)1420 23212,
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1959 19 59Jag Jaguar uarMkI MkI Completely etely restored restored to prist pristine ine condition tion with original orig inal colour combination combination of Sher Sherwood wood Gre Green en with Suede Gre Green en inte interior rior. Feat Features ures an upra uprated ted 3.8-litre engine, five-speed Getrag gearbox, four-pot brake calipers, widened rear body and competition wire wir e whee wheels. ls. £85,000. Te Tel:l: +44 (0)1292 314050,
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1 964 96 4ado Austin-Healey Austin-Heale y t3000 MkIII Colorado Color Red with excellent excellen original nal black seats, recently replaced recently replaced black carpets and a very good Everflexhood Ever flexhood withmatchin withmatching g bag.Barebag.Bare-meta metall res respray pray completed in late 2020, appears to be of a premium finish. finis h. Many original nal details ls and conco concours-r urs-ready eady featuresoen lost duringrestoration,which havebeen sensitively maintained or restored painstakingly over the car’s lifetime. Twin Lucas spotlamps complete its wonderful period aesthetic. Price £75,000 ono. Tel: +44 (0)1420 23212, email Sales@RawlesMotorsport. com, www.RawlesM www.RawlesMotorsport.com otorsport.com (T).
1962 Borgward Isabella TS Two-Door Sedan €16,900 For more information please contact me, FRANK KENNIS +31 622 420 766
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the Monday before – the catering team, that is – an and d im imme medi diat atel elyy we go sho shoppi pping ng fo forr produce, using whatever bits of language we have, Italian or Spanish, to get exactly what we want. en we ooad our catering equipment and set up our kitchen. kitchen. By Tues uesda dayy we we’r ’ree normall norm allyy all allowe owed d in to sta start rt pre prepar paring, ing, andthis is our most important time because it’ll soon be full steam ahead. On Wednesday the actual race team starts to arrive, so we normally serve a lunch and a dinner, ursday is similar, and then Friday, Saturday and Sunday is breakfast, lunch and dinner for the team and drivers as well as an à la carte menu for the VIP guests. My diet during the week is not similar to anyon an yonee els else’ e’s; s; it’ it’ss pick,pick, pick. Butwe spe spend nd a lo lott oftimetest oftimetestin ingg thegues theguestt dis dishesas hesas wemake them. For today, Friday, for example, it’s char siu pork belly to start, then a simple grilled sh with Provençale vegetables, followed by dessert des serts. s. In the ga gara rage ge they’ they’re re und under er tou tough gh time restrictions today, today, so we’v we’vee pack packed ed their fridges up with good sandwiches and healthy snacks – most of them don’t have the luxury of poppin pop pingg ov over er for a leis leisure urely ly lun lunch. ch. It’s just makingsure mak ingsure eve everyon ryonee is well well-fe -fed d wher whereve everr they are. And tonight’s dinner is steak. We’re We ’re not just cooking for the team, which is 80-90 strong, but also for the VIPs – 40 or so this race – and then we have the driver drivers, s, their manageme mana gement, nt, the owner owner,, his team team,, 150-16 150-160 0 covers for each meal. We’re We’re well-organised and everything’s do-able. is week at Imola we havee four chefs in the kitchen but we can also hav produce good food with three, in case there’s a proble pro blem. m. We’ e’re re 45 min minute utess aw away ay fro from m the nearest supermarket. I’m 43 and most of my career has been in rest re stau aura rant ntss an and d hot hotels els.. I st star arte ted d wit with h an apprenticeship in leisure and tourism. I was 17 and couldn’t drive, but day-release was part of the package so I was sent to a hotel in my
‘THE F1 TEAM IS RATHER LIKE US IN THE KITCHEN, IN THAT WE WORK IN I N TIGHT TIGHT SPACES AND UNDER HUGE HUG E PRESSURE’ rather like us in the kitchen, in that we work in tight spaces and under huge pressure, too. In 2021 I did half the races, then this season they oeredme oe redme the full full-ti -time me con contra tract. ct. It was wasn n’t tot total al uke, just destiny. Beforethe Bef orethe sea seasonstartswe sonstartswe devi devise se a men menu u for each race. We can visualise how it’s going to work out, although we adapt our menus around what we nd in the shops. s hops. is week, week , at Emilia Romagna, it’s paradise for ingredients: fresh trues and wonderful forest mushrooms. e team has a nutritionist who we liaise with at the start of the season. A lile bit of greasy food comes into play at certain times but they actually need snack food that keeps energy levels up. e drivers’ coaches speak to us directly so we can help them stick to set diets. Last sea season son there was too much chocolate about, so this season the snacks have chang cha nged ed to nut nuts, s, pop popcorn corn,, ap apjac jacks ks andprot andprotein ein balls with dark chocolate c hocolate and dates. We make
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home town. I started on front of house and then, aer helping out in the kitchen, the chefs asked me to stay on. Four Four-and -and-a-h -a-half alf years later I’d got all my qualications. e las lastt few years years ha have ve been with event event companies, and one had a contract with the Aston Martin Mar tin F1 team. During Covid in 2020 I was asked to y out last-minute as emergency cover. I enjoyed the buzz and the F1 team is
them without the ba bad d sug sugars ars,, usi using ng ma maple ple syrup and honey. Still sweet but it’s certainly not junk food. ere’s quite a variety because the team is lookingg for fuel, some healthy food and some lookin home comforts comforts – she shepher pherds’ ds’ pies, sh and chips, and meat usually goes down beer than sh. Guests and VIPs, though, expect top-end restaurant quality.
plus footb football, all, tenni tennis, s, anythin anythingg sporty sporty.. Howe However ver,, jetlag, exercise, exerci se, eating and routines have taken some geing used to. In this job you need resilience plus patience – 22 times a year you turn up, build a restaurant in, well, a eld, and then feed 150 people three times a day. I like pleasing people through food, and if they don’t fancy what we’ve done they can always wander into the kitchen and I’ll think of something.
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