H&H Collectors Motor Cars Auction Results

Auction Location: Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire

Auction Date: Wednesday 9 December 2009

There were buyers, many of them from the Eurozone, for three quarters of the H&H catalogue’s contents in the final Buxton sale of the Northern house’s 2009 UK auction season, reports Richard Hudson-Evans, with a 1924 Bentley raising the required £220,000 with premium. The once 3-Litre and now 4½-Litre Sports, which had been driven by HRH Prince Michael of Kent on the 1995 Mille Miglia Storica, was a Team Prize winner in last year’s Le Mans Classic.
Having sold an AC Ace at each of its last four sales, this time a brace of Roadsters had been consigned. A 1956-made Ace with a US Ford 289ci V8 - but with a Bristol engine of the correct type as originally fitted included - duly found £107,800 and a 1955 AC-powered car sold for £94,600.
Really mint restored examples of the Jaguar XK120, the E Type Series 3, 1960 XK150 and 1974 Triumph Stag all sold well here. The 120 Roadster, which had Bathhurst period race provenance, fetched £77,000, the V12 Roadster £50,600, the 150SE Coupe £41,800 and the Stag with hard and soft-tops on wires a deservedly bullish £16,500.
Relatively recent Bentleys to successfully cross the block included a 1994 Continental R sold for £37,400 and a high-spec 2001 Arnage Red Label for £26,400. A Lotus Carlton, one of less than 1000, made a strong £15,400 and 1985 Renault 5 Turbo 2, reportedly one of the 200 ‘Homologation Specials’, went for £14,850.
Among MG prices recorded here were the £22,000 paid for a 1949 TC that had spent much of its life in the US, a more than top estimate £11,000 for a tidy MGA Fixed Head on steels and a double guide price £3410 for a 1969 Midget MkIII 1275 on wires.
Eighty-five percent of the classic bikes changed hands during Wednesday afternoon in December headed by a 1926 Brough Superior knocked down for £60,500. A 1955 Matchless G45 racer realised £44,000, which is thought to have been a new highest auction price for this model, and a Dr Who on TV exposed 1953 Vincent Rapide Series C fetched £25,850.
Whilst in the Automobile section an assortment of lightweight E Type Jag panels in aluminium raised £5063 and a photo album entitled ’Beach Auto Racing Sunbeam 1000hp’ £3600. The next auction at the company’s regular Pavilion Gardens venue in the Peak District Spa town is scheduled for 17 February 2009.

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