The Charterhouse auction of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia at The Bristol Classic Car Show in The Royal Bath and West Showground on Sunday 3rd May was a near sell out with an impressive total of over £200,000.
“It was a great sale with buyers not only from the South West, but from the continent too with a few Germans taking advantage of the favourable exchange rate, but the prize for the buyer who travelled the furthest goes to a New Zealand client who bought a couple of pic-nic hampers!” Commented Matthew Whitney. “The auction had an extremely successful selling rate of nearly 90%, at a time when there is much doom and gloom in the world, with many cars exceeding their vendors expectations.”
Top lot of the day had to be shared between two cars from the same owner at £28,000 each. First up was a beautiful 1935 Bentley 3.5 litre Hooper four door sport saloon. This had a well documented ownership over the decades having been owned by one owner twice. Next was a 1930 Rolls Royce 20/25 Barker style Tourer, owned by the vendor for 30 years, which sold for the same money. Both cars were driven from the vendors house near Birmingham to the auction, although it is not clear how he got home again!
Elsewhere in the sale, an Aston Martin V8 sold for £22,800 to Berkshire bidder, a Triumph 1800 Roadster, similar to the one used in the Bergerac detective series, £9,700, a Jaguar XJS convertible, in immaculate condition, £10,000, a left hand drive Maserati Bora £21,000 despite having been dry stored for a number of years and now requiring some re-commissioning to a collector from Hereford, as was a Maserati Khyalami coupe from the same owner which sold for £5,700 to a Devon collector. However, on car which was admired by many and generated a good deal of pre auction interest was the Rover 95. Originally purchased by the vendors father from Hurst Park Motors in 1964, he traded the car back to Hurst park Motors in 1967. It was then sold on two more times until the original owner’s son bought it back into the family ownership. Now, however, it has turned full circle and returned to Hurst Park Motors, some 35 years after first leaving their premises.
Charterhouse is now accepting further entries for their summer programme of auctions including specialist sales of militaria, clocks, trains and collectors items in June, pictures and prints in July along with classic cars, automobilia and motorbikes at Sherborne Castle also in July. For further information regarding these sales, or to arrange a free home visit, please contact Richard Bromell, Partner or Matthew Whitney at Charterhouse, The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BS 01935 812277.
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