This car is a 1955 XK140 Jaguar roadster. Its engine #G5032-8S is fitted with a C-type head with matching number with the engine's one. Finished in red with beige leather interior the mileage amounts to 82 514 miles. Its condition and running ordre are excellent. As on many American cars it had been fitted with wire wheels and Firestone white walls..
This Bristol is the first of 16 AC with Bristol engine imported new to Switzerland. It was registered on October 1st 1956 and for two years by Ecurie des 3 Chevrons in Neuchatel ( and successfully raced by famous rally driver Hubert Patthey ), the two second owners did race the car on various Swiss and French hillclimbs, the third owner stored the ..
This magnificently presented BRM Type 25 is a front-engined Formula 1 car of immense historic importance. It is the actual car in which Swedish racing driver Joakim ‘Jo’ Bonnier scored the BRM team’s first-ever World Championship-qualifying Grand Prix race win – the 1959 Dutch GP at Zandvoort – after no fewer than eleven years’ immensel..
Contrary to popular belief, Maserati motorcycles were not manufactured at the eponymous car-maker’s Modena factory, but by another subsidiary of the Orsi Group parent company - Fabbrica Candele e Accumulatori Maserati (FCAM) - that manufactured spark plugs and other automotive electrical components. This Maserati ‘125’ was sold new in Italy i..
This standard-wheelbase, right-hand drive Silver Wraith Hearse was sold new in 1950 for bodying as a hearse by the Scottish Co-operative Society, which was Rolls-Royce’s biggest customer at that time. The ’Wraith was shipped back to the UK in 2001 and then underwent a full restoration at Cocherane’s, of Durham, re-emerging in 2005 as the beau..
The Bentley offered here - ‘BC7E’ - was delivered to Jack Barclay’s representative on 26th April 1955 and thence to its first owner, one G C V Brittain, via area retailer, Agnew & Graham Ltd, of Belfast. Offered from the well-known stable of a long-standing Rolls-Royce and Bentley collector/driver, ‘BC7E’ benefits from recently fitted..
The Bentley was acquired by Elton – now Sir Elton - John in 1976 and in the early part of his ownership was consigned to Weybridge Automobiles for a comprehensive restoration including a bare metal re-spray, complete refurbishment of the interior and attention to the mechanicals as and where necessary. In keeping with the requirements of its owne..
First registered 13 November 1951, this MkII 90 joined a stable of cars in Broadstone, Dorset, belonging to first owner Anthony Long, who, having drive it for just over 14,000 miles, laid it up in 1971 (the year on the last tax disc on file from this period). The Sports-Saloon then remained in the same family ownership for 52 years until November 2..
Supplied new in Germany and dating from the first full year of Corvette production, this early Chevrolet has the full complement of optional equipment, including turn signals, heater, AM radio and windshield washer, that went into almost all ’54 ’Vettes. Formerly part of major private collections in the USA and Switzerland, the Corvette was Swi..