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.
Update 16/9: The Mini didn’t make it’s reserve at £2550 and has now been relisted with a £3000 starting price. The BiN of £5500 has also been reduced to £4250. We’ll see if it sells this time. Links updated.
We don’t need to tell you how popular the new Mini is. You can’t turn your head in the street these days or two at least have gone past you. But you’d nearly forget how great the old Mini looks, especially with some rally gear on.
Update 16/9: The white one didn’t meet reserve, the blue one sold for £820. The light blue one didn’t make any bids.
We must admit here at Classic Car Hunter, we have never seen one in the flesh. All of a sudden there are three of them for sale on ebay UK. One for restoration and two in pretty good nick judging the pictures available. Click on the photographs to go bring up the auction pages.
Update 16/9: The Frogeye sold for £4113.
This Sprite comes with a bit of racing history. It won the 1968 4hr Croft rally and participated in the 1969 Targa Florio but retired in the race because of an accident. The car has been a regular customer on tracks around Europe and is up for sale on ebay UK out of Buckinghamshire with 1 day to go.
This Healey is an ex-California car, purchased by a Cambridge professor and shipped to England. It was restored 12 years ago at serious expense. It has always been kept in a heated garage. The car has made it to Belgium over the last couple of years and is now for sale out of Limburg.
Wow! This MGA looks fabulously expensive in this colour combination. Maroon makes any car look a bit more expensive in our opinion. It looks stunning with the dove grey bodywork and the combination with the white-walled wheels make it undeniably stylish. But we’re afraid of the quality of the pictures, and we think the tonneau cover and the interior could just be red instead.
Another homologation special. Lotus’ Colin Chapman was developing his new twincam engine when Ford came knocking on his door. They wanted to use his engine in 1000 Group 2 homologation cars. The famous white car with the green stripe was born (Ford did have some red examples made for their own racing purposes).
Update 16/9: The Roller again didn’t sell, no bids at £20k. Let’s see if it appears again.
Update 28/8: The car has been relisted, now with a starting price of £20,000. Find it here.
A special Rolls has come up for sale in SW London: a Rolls Silver Shadow Estate conversion. It is Silver Sand over British Racing Green and comes with a webasto sunroof. The roof extension itself is a dark green. We’re not convinced on the two-tone paint unfortunately and think they might look better in one colour.
States-side, there is a big vintage racing scene. One of the Team Thicko Austin Healey vintage racing team cars seems to have made it across the pond. We have no idea about its racing palmares but it looks ready for some European circuit racing.
Update 26/8: This car has been re-listed on ebay UK here.
A nice example of a roadgoing rally car has come up for sale in this 1996 “Cossie”. These cars were produced from 1992 to 1996, so it makes this particular car one of the last ones. Just over 7000 of them were made: 2500 more rudimentary rally homologation vehicles and the rest a bit more luxuriously equipped.
Update 12/8: The car seems to have sold. Well done!
What a car to make something special out of! We have had our eyes on this one for a couple of weeks now. This car is a very cool 1969 Triumph Mark 1 Estate. They are very rare and this one only earlier this year changed hands for the very first time after having some welding done to it. What’s even sweeter is the price the seller is willing to accept, £800!
