Coys True Greats Auction Results
Auction Location: Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster, London
Auction Date: Tuesday 1 December 2009
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A 1938 Lagonda V12 Drophead, in receipt of earlier restoration and clearly well maintained since, fetched £155,500 with premium to top the Coys end of 2009 season auction results at Westminster, reports Richard Hudson-Evans. Not far behind it though, selling for £144,500, was a 1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Hooper-bodied 2-Door Fixed Head Coupe.
A Ferrari Owners Club Concours winning 1974 246GT Dino reportedly made £85,100 and a 1979 512BB from the same marque £77,400 - both were right-hand drive cars. Well restored examples of a 1963 Porsche 356B T6 Super 90 Cabriolet and a 1966 Mercedes-Benz 230SL Roadster with hardtop also sold for £47,700 and £43,300 respectively.
Although an ex-works 1934 MG with K3 lightweight chassis from the Peter Gregory Collection failed to hook a buyer with the necessary £200,000 plus, a clutch of his interesting though incomplete restoration projects did pull. A 1957 RGS Atalanta Coupe was taken on for £23,000 and a circa 1937 Atlanta Talbot Sports-Racer for £16,100. A 1959 RGS-Jaguar Atalanta rolling chassis raised £8050 and a 1938 Atalanta Single Seater with dismantled Lincoln V12 engine the same money.
Some of the prices noted down on sale night that have already been in the printed media do need to be corrected however. For the 2004 Ferrari Enzo apparently sold to a registered bidder during the auction for £771,000 plus premium would appear not to have sold after all. Also absent from official results published by the Richmond firm is a 1908 Stanley Steamer Model M knocked down as sold for £140,000.
And although a 1969 AC 428 Fixed Head also did not sell for £147,000 plus premium, the Frua-styled and Uniclip restored Fastback is now recorded as having cost a new owner £102,075 - only slightly less than the £110,000 achieved by RM at Battersea in October for a 1972 428 Fastback.
In addition, and since the auction at the beginning of December, four after-sales have been successfully concluded led by a 1934 Aston Martin 1½-Litre International 4-Seater reportedly sold for £80,224 gross. A 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II with Peter Plunkett crafted Tourer coachwork has been acquired for £45,250 and a 1982 Maserati Merak for £24,229, whilst £6000 was accepted for a 1920s Fiat 501S Rep, one of a trio of such look-vaguely-alike specials with MGB engine concocted in 2008 for a Targa Florio movie.
With these adjustments taken into account, a total of 28 cars - 51 per cent of the catalogue - have now been confirmed by Coys as having sold for close to £1.08m.
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