Collectors Motor Cars Auction - H&H Auction House

Richard Hudson-Evans says, Both headline cars sold well in Buxton where H&H staged a very well attended end of 2008 season sale, reports Richard Hudson-Evans, with £198,000 paid for a 1932 Talbot 105 Fox & Nichol Team with sporting 4-Seater Vanden Plas bodywork and the same for a 1936 SS 100 Roadster upgraded with 3½-Litre engine. A 1939 SS Jaguar 2½-Litre Drophead Coupe for restoration raised £28,600 here and a restored 1934 SS II 4-Seater Tourer £22,000.
A quartet of early restoration projects were much viewed with the remnants of a 1901 Decauville 8hp Tonneau generating a very bullish £90,200, £72,000 more than top estimate. Time warp Daimler Landaulettes, a 1913 30hp and a 1925 20hp, attracted £44,000 and 15,400 apiece, again well above forecast. Whilst the ex-Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll 1913 Argyll 25/50 Open Tourer was taken on for £37,400.
£42,900 was available for a 1939 MG WA Tickford Drophead, restored in 2000 and much rallied since. A 1958 MGA Twin Cam Roadster found £21,450 and a 1949 MG TC £15,950. Aston Martin prices recorded included a 1962 DB4 Series IV with original fixed head bodywork and rebuilt Special Series engine sold for £81,400, a 1976 V8 for £19,800, and 1990 and 1991 examples of the Virage made £15,950 and £13,200 respectively.
Patsy Burt’s 1966 McLaren M3A hill climb and sprint championship winning Single-Seater made £77,000 and the 1996 Jaguar XK8 Convertible owned by the late comedian Bob Monkhouse and his wife from new in 1996 £17,050. A Jaguar 420 supplied new to Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1967 sold for £12,650. On a November weekday afternoon in Derbyshire there were buyers prepared to spend £1.28m for three quarters of the catalogue contents.

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