Classic cars are our passion. Driving our classic cars is an even bigger passion.
But the internet is our addiction ... Just as we can drive for hours, we can surf the internet for hours on end. Always trying to find that special car for sale in some obscure little corner.
It is a pretty exclusive club you find yourself in when you own the ultimate 2002, the Turbo version. Only 1671 of them were made between 1973 and 1975, around 1000 in Chamonix white and about 600 in Polaris Silver. But it’s more exclusive than that as quite a few ended up wrapped around trees as they “suffered” from serious turbolag.
Update 30/10: The red Spider at RMauctions sold for GBP181500. A bit below our expectations
With the credit crunch starting to bite left, right and center, more classic cars are coming onto the market. And the people with the money seem to be increasingly looking at blue chip classics as an investment alternative. Some pretty unique cars are changing hands at the moment. Two weeks ago, a 1955 Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider America sold for GBP247,500 at auction and quite amazingly today another 1954 B24 Spider America is going under the hammer at RM Auctions in Central London with an in our opinion very conservative estimate.
With prices of the much-desired CSL version of the BMW E9 reaching silly amounts in some cases, demand for the other versions of this beautiful car will likely only increase. Here is a pretty unique 2800 CS that had some chopping and changing done to it. With pretty good result …
We featured another replica out of Holland a while back (which is still for sale by the way). Now one has come up for sale on German ebay out of a Danish collection. It is a replica made in the late eighties in France, where it took part in hill climbs and rallies.
As soon as we spotted this car for sale we knew it had been designed by Giugiaro. He designed it when working for Bertone. It looks more like some Italian luxury sedan rather than a Japanese Mazda, or Luce as these cars were known as back in the land of the rising sun. Between 1965 and 1971, more than 120,000 of these Mazdas were produced. Australia would be your best bet to find one these days though …
Unfortunately there is not much information available on this car, but it is a super-duper 2-liter Toyota sedan from the sixties. These cars are very wanted in some corners of the globe, but not so much really in Belgium, where this one is up for sale. It has probably been imported from the US, but we wouldn’t want to bet our life on it since Toyotas were quite popular in Belgium in the sixties.
Alfa Romeo introduced a new concept car at the Montreal Expo ’67. The car had no real name, so people started calling the car “The Montreal”. So Alfa called it officially the Montreal. How about that for listening to your customers.
For sale in the south of Holland is this nice little project. This fixed head coupé has been partly restored. All welding is done, including a new rear end and sills. It has been put in a primer and needs painting. The car comes with a Production Record Trace Certificate and chassis, body, engine, gearbox are all matching numbers.
Over the years, there have always been wealthy businessmen who had a go at starting their own car manufacturing. Malcolm Bricklin was a millionaire who made his money from plumbing and from importing Subaru into the US. His factory though was never able to produce cars fast enough to keep the company going. Only about 2,800 cars were built and about 1,000 are believed to survive. This white one has come up for sale in Holland.
Mulliner and Park Ward were two coachbuilders who had done some work for Rolls-Royce and finally got taken over by the motoring company from Crewe when they had hit financial troubles. The first car that came out under Rolls-Royce ownership was this Silver Shadow-based coupé, or better even: “two door saloon”. It was named after Mulliner Park Ward but was changed from 1971 onwards into Corniche.
