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Motor Vehicles — Bonhams & Goodman

$3,164,000
Mk XVI Spitfire TE330.…
$1,525,500
The ex-Jim Clark, Richard Attwood, 1963 Formula 1 World Champion…
$683,650
c.…
$576,300
The ex-Mario Andretti, Carlos Reutemann 1978/79 Lotus 79 Formula…








Auction House: Bonhams & Goodman
Number of lots recorded: 126
Lots with images: 122
Prices available: 126
Category: Motor Vehicles




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*** Mk XVI Spitfire TE330. The old engineering adage - "If it looks right, it most probably is right", describes the Spitfire to perfection. For a 1930's design, even today, it still looks drop dead gorgeous from any angle, from the smooth curves over the nose, to the unique elliptical plan shape of its wings.… ***
*** The ex-Jim Clark, Richard Attwood, 1963 Formula 1 World Championship-winning history 1962 Lotus 25 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater Chassis No. R4 Engine No. Fmmv 499/6 The top drawer of sporting history's filing cabinet is open only to the absolute cream of racing car designs. Those which can be regarded as true landmarks - waypoints upon history's technical route march - are in reality very few and far between.… ***
*** c. 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III Chassis No: JG33LL80782Sido No: 056999 Reg: Unregistered The XR Falcon released in September 1966, was the first Falcon to have a V8 engine option the 289 cu. in which developed 200 bhp at 4,400 rpm and some months later the GT version was introduced. It had a stunning effect on its competitors, and some road safety organisations even called for it to be banned. ***
*** The ex-Mario Andretti, Carlos Reutemann 1978/79 Lotus 79 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater Chassis No: '79/5' - 'Ml 23' Engine No: DFV195 None could challenge Lotus's shattering form with its latest frontier-breaking Type 78 'wing cars' of 1977. They introduced the modern ground-effects form of aerodynamic management and control to competition car design, and were every bit as much landmark designs in motor racing history as had been the Lotus 25 monocoque of 1962. ***
*** 1967 Aston-Matin DB6 Vantage Volante Chassis no. DB6/3660/R Engine no. 400/3278/Vc Considered by many to be the last 'proper' Aston Martin, the DB6 was launched at the London and Paris Motor Shows in 1965, updating the DB5.… ***
*** c1925 Bentley 3/4 1/2 litre Le Mans replica Chassis No: 911 Engine No: RT 909 Reg: Club reg (Vic) (N. T. )W. O. Bentley proudly debuted the new 3-litre car bearing his name on Stand 126 at the 1919 Olympia Motor Exhibition, the prototype engine having fired up for the first time just a few weeks earlier.… ***
*** c. 1957 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Roadster Chassis No.: 7500248 Engine No.: 7500245 Reg No.: UnregisteredRoadster version of the Mercedes-Benz 300SL will be introduced at the Geneva Salon opening on March 17, 1957. The basic design is similar to that of the 300 SL' This new model will be in the production in the Spring of next year' First news of the 300SL Roadster. ‘The Autocar’, November 23, 1956. ***
*** 1921 Vauxhall 30-98 E-type Velox Tourer. Chassis No: E 429 Engine No: 427 Reg: EB3515(SA) Conditional N/T This is a most handsome example of what is considered by many knowledgeable enthusiasts to be the finest British sporting car of the Vintage period.… ***
*** 1928/1945 Alfa Romeo 1,500cc Supercharged racing car. Chassis no.: 0111522 The Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 was the first true expression of the abiding design genius of Vittorio Jano, who had masterminded the Italian firm's meteoric rise to world-class stature in the mid-1920s.… ***
*** The ex-Jim Clark 1966 Lotus 39 Tasman Series Racing Single-Seater Chassis No: '39 R12' Engine No: Fpf 1267 Here we are delighted to be able to offer this splendidly restored ex-Jim Clark/Team Lotus 1966 Tasman Championship car which also has profoundly important Australian racing history to its name, since it is the car subsequently owned and campaigned over several seasons by the great Australian owner/driver, Leo Geoghegan. ***
*** The ex-Alan Stacey, Bob King 1959 Lotus 16 Formula 2 Racing Single-Seater Chassis No: 366 Engine No: Fpf 430/27 1306 There is today a very special user/collector's cachet attached to the very fastest examples of front-engined Grand Prix car technology.… ***
*** 1924 Vauxhall 30-98 OE-Type Velox Tourer, Chassis no. OE 116, Engine no. 116, The Vauxhall 30-98 is considered by many knowledgeable enthusiasts to be the finest British sporting car of the Vintage period. Fans of Vauxhall 30-98 will maintain that while Bentleys are for those who like to be seen, the Vauxhall 30-98 is for those who like to drive.… ***
*** 1924 Vauxhall 30-98 OE-Type Velox Tourer. Chassis no. OE 188. Engine no. OE 182. Reg no. unregistered . The Vauxhall 30-98 is considered by many knowledgeable enthusiasts to be the finest British sporting car of the Vintage period. Fans of Vauxhall 30-98 will maintain that while Bentleys are for those who like to be seen, the Vauxhall 30-98 is for those who like to drive.… ***
*** 1925 Bugatti Brescia type 23 Original body by Comptons Chassis no. 2493 Engine no. 901 'Bugattis encapsulate concepts of engineering which, once seen, change your ideas radically and definitively. Drive them, and you realise that each car is form and engineering in equilibrium, and a work of art.' William Stobbs, Les Grandes Routières. Born in 1881 in Milan, Ettore Bugatti was part of an extraordinary family of designers and artists; the patriarch Carlo Bugatti a furniture designer and manufacturer.… ***
*** c.1948 Mercedes-Benz A320 Type W142 Cabriolet. Chassis no. 153423. Engine no. 153423. Body no. 8060 W142-001. Reg no. unregistered . Mercedes-Benz's luxurious 320 series was first introduced in 1936 as a replacement for the 290 series. Built initially in two wheelbase lengths, the 320 was down to just one from 1938 onwards, though a wide variety of open and closed body styles remained available, including a state-of-the-art streamlined saloon.… ***
*** The Right to display Motor Vehicle Number Plate NSW 40 original number. Even in the earliest days of motoring there were regulations. One such regulation in New South Wales required that 'no person shall upon any public street drive any motor vehicle upon which appears any advertisement likely to frighten any horse'.… ***

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