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How to buy a Triumph TR6

How to buy a Triumph TR6

Triumph’s handsome, heroic and sweet-sounding TR6 has long been able to add affordable to its list of virtues but prices have started to follow the TR5 and TR4 upwards. Read more
Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 23 August

Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 23 August

Now that the prices paid during the five auctions held on the Monterey Peninsula last week have all been added up, the big number to crunch is $263m (or £168m in our equally devalued currency) and considerable more than at last year‘s Californian gold rush. For in selling $115m (£74m) worth of big ticket items, $37m (£24m) more than at the same sale last year, Gooding alone broke 21 auction world records and RM sold 20 automobiles at more than the magic $1m (£640,000)apiece Read more
Classic Car Weekly on sale now!

Classic Car Weekly on sale now!

Buying: Ford Cortina Mk III & Audi quattro. Jaguar XJS Classic Road Test. Jowett Car Club, Rover P5 Club, Classic American Auto Club GB, 2CV GB plus MUCH MORE! Read more
Stick or Twist?

Stick or Twist?

I've recently been suffering from a problem familiar to many of you; my 1986 BMW 325i is getting to the point where it isn't economically viable to keep repairing Read more
Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans

Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans

Despite the rival attraction of a sun-blessed North Norfolk and East Coast on  Saturday, some 800 punters checked out the latest ACA drive-through at King’s Lynn, where, after 52 years ownership from new,  one happy couple – Tom and Jacquie McGuiness - saw their beloved Frogeye Sprite fetch £15,750, record money surely for a Mk1 road car, albeit a really well restored and mint example. Read more
Classic Car Weekly on sale now!

Classic Car Weekly on sale now!

Buying: Mazda MX-5, Mercedes-Benz SEC. Road test: Triumph Dolomite 1850HL. Club Triumph, Morris Minor Owner's Club, Panther Car Club, Midget & Sprite Club. Plus more Read more
Olympic Classics

Olympic Classics

Like millions of people all around the worl, I was warmed to see classic cars feature in the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in London Read more
Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 16 August

Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 16 August

The RM dispersal of the extraordinarily wide ranging collection put together by the late Barons J O Raben-Levetzau in the outbuildings of Aalholm Castle on the southern Danish island of Lolland generated really huge interest with a crop cleared car park field quickly full to overflowing and sale-goers well travelled cars lining not only the estate drive, but the verges of the approach roads too Read more
Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 9 August

Latest market commentary from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 9 August

Aston Martin DB6s did well beside the stream at Donnington Priory, the listed Newbury HQ of H&H associate Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions, with a mint 1967 DB6 Mk1 with 4.2 upgrade fetching £161,700 including premium and a matching numbers Vantage from the same year, though shabby, dormant and ripe for improvement if not full restoration taken on for £128,800 Read more
Latest auction event news from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 7th August

Latest auction event news from CCFS auction analyst Richard Hudson-Evans 7th August

Edwardian Buick heads for Brazil from Richard Edmonds auction tent last Saturday where there were buyers for 89% of the automobilia. More gavels will be wielded by H&H at Donnington Priory Wednesday, by Coys during the Oldtimer GP at the Nurburgring as well as by Mathewson in Thornton-Le-Dale this Saturday, and by RM in what promises to be an Olympian Marathon at Aalhom Castle in Denmark Sunday. Read more