March 2022 auction results: Californian Datsun avoids rusty ravages
1972 Datsun 240Z Sold by The Market, £24,000 Datsun’s 240Z might have been the best-looking, most practical GT car to have come out of Japan – but most of the…
This car first made headlines in the automotive press back in 2017 following the completion of a remarkable ground-up rebuild by CMC, the Shropshire-based Jaguar specialist and top-level restorer that…
1977 Lynx D-Type (pictured above) Sold by H&H, £213,750 Known for the quality of its Jaguar XKSS, C and D-type ‘evocations’, Lynx Engineering was less than a decade old when…
Together with the Meyers Manx beach buggy, Colin Chapman’s Lotus Seven must rank among the most imitated of all kit car designs. The best-known Seven replicas (in Europe, at least)…
1967 Ford Mustang 'Eleanor Tribute' Sold by Mecum, £253,000 This near-perfect recreation of the ‘Eleanor’ Mustang that served as the automotive star in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60…
The Lotus Seven driven by Patrick McGoohan as ‘Number Six’ is undoubtedly the most famous car to have appeared in the cult ’60s TV series The Prisoner – but this…
The Phil Morris Road Racing Collection Sold by Bonhams, £2.1m This collection of competition motorcycles formed part of the contents of the Oswestry Road Racing Museum established by race team…
Mention the name Ford Torino to some of a certain age and they will immediately picture an image of the red-and-white ‘Striped Tomato’ Torino that featured in the 1970s TV…
1973 Ford Escort Twin-Cam replica Sold by Collectingcars.com, £24,250 During the two years that I scraped a living buying and selling classic cars in the 1980s (giving up just before…
Eyebrows lifted a couple of years ago when Jaguar Land Rover announced a sale of 140 vehicles, all of them as green as they could be, with not a petrol…
2014 Realm Heritage C-type Sold by H&H, £67,500 It may be ‘just’ a replica, but the new owner of this Realm C-type certainly shouldn’t be embarrassed by that. The kits…
Renzo Rivolta's industrial forebears made a fortune postwar out of products that included bubble cars, scooters and refrigerators. But the man himself simply left a legacy of some darned cool…
There is plenty of cars up for auction across Monterey car week covering pretty, pedigree and peculiar
Think 'pre-war competition cars’ and the name of Hudson might not be the first to spring to mind. But this famous American marque, launched in 1909 and named after Detroit…
1993 Porsche 968 Club Sport Sold by Bonhams, £21,744 It might have been out of production for more than 25 years, but many people still regard Porsche’s stripped-out 968 Club…
The Lola T-90 chassis 90/2 in which Jackie Stewart almost won the 1966 Indy 500 – and did claim that year's Fuiji 200 – is going up for auction
If you could have any three Jaguars in your garage, then there’s a decent chance that these would be the models you choose. The C-type, D-type and E-type played starring…