while away 5 minutes

[flat6buster]

For those with deeper pockets than me the latest Bonhams auction
catalogue is full of lovely stuff - being held at MB World, Brooklands

linky

for me the (proper) BMW 328 is a stand out act (am I allowed to say that here?).

Some nice memorabilia as well.

 

[MercFanUk]

For me (if I ever had the cash!), it'd so have to be the F40: Lot Details

A poster car as a child, and one of the last truly mental super cars. What a machine.

 

[janner]

This particular Ferrari F40 was involved in a heavy front-end accident... The chassis was irreparable and a new one was provided by Ferrari, stamped with the original number...

Errr, I think I'll spend my £300K on one that hasn't

 

[Troon]

Ooh, nice Maserati, although better inside than out IMHO: Lot Details

 

[jeffwebb]

There's some lovely cars in there but that Citroen convertible is so cool.

 

[MercFanUk]

This particular Ferrari F40 was involved in a heavy front-end accident... The chassis was irreparable and a new one was provided by Ferrari, stamped with the original number...

Errr, I think I'll spend my £300K on one that hasn't

Haha, I never read the description! In that case, I'll take my virtual 300k and spend it on a different F40

 

[poormansporsche]

My personal fave strangely is the 70's aston v8 ok so they are a pile of ****e but they are the most "manly" car ever made imo

 

[corned]

This particular Ferrari F40 was involved in a heavy front-end accident... The chassis was irreparable and a new one was provided by Ferrari, stamped with the original number...

Errr, I think I'll spend my £300K on one that hasn't

Haha, I never read the description! In that case, I'll take my virtual 300k and spend it on a different F40

And it gets worse.

1. The chassis was replaced, but given the same number as the wrecked one. And the factory colluded in and sanctioned this?
2. The odometer was zeroed at the time of the rebuild, on what possible grounds? Zeroed from an unknown previous tally. So no one on earth knows what mileage the engine and running gear have done.

Bargain!

 

[BTB 500]

I liked the Lola-Chevrolet racer, but the history made my brain hurt

Lot Details

This recently race-prepared and most attractively presented contemporary World Championship of Makes contender began life as Eric Broadley's famous factory's prototype Mark 3B Coupe

In 1987-88, Mr Wheatley rebuild 'the car' around a freshly-acquired Lola monocoque. The car's discarded original tub was put into storage, but sadly Michael Wheatley was then badly injured in an enormous accident first time out in the re-chassised T70GT.

'SL76/138' was then reassembled upon "the right tub" with new body panels and other components replaced as necessary. John Hunt – we are informed – raced the rebuild T70GT four times before deciding to assemble a replacement around a new tub and all-new parts, to which the original car's chassis plate was transferred.

The 'replaced' Sid Taylor car without its original chassis plate was sold to John Starkey

As offered here the Lola is fresh from an extensive rebuild and racepreparation programme conducted by Hall & Hall

 

[corned]

A lot of historic race cars have questionable provenance. When does a car become not the same car any more? After how many rebuilds? Can you claim the car is the original if you only have one suspension arm, or just the original chassis plate (and nothing else)?

I know of a historically-important C-Type Jaguar (or should I say two) which share the same chassis number, and for which both owners claim rightful ownership. You guessed it - the original was heavily crashed, and I forget the precise details, but it went something like - one car came from the re-worked body tub with engine, and one from the rebuilt chassis and suspension. So which one is the 'real' one?

That Lola reminds me of Johnny Cash:

 

[Red C220]

After a certain number of parts and rebuilds they are starting to sound like "Trigger's Broom"

 

[Dieselman]

There's some lovely cars in there but that Citroen convertible is so cool.

That's very cheap for a decapitobale, and this one has provenance in having only 2 owners.

Quite an interesting car. 380,000 miles is a few and explains why it's cheap.