Despite a massive music festival taking place up the road, Charterhouse’s summer classic car auction on June 27 once again drew crowds
The cars offered at Charterhouse’s latest sale spanned more than a century, with plenty of variety among them. The oldest vehicle in the sale was a 1905 De Dion Bouton Type AL 8HP affectionately known as Tessa, which was hammered away to a new owner for £22,000 plus fees. It wasn’t the only old stager though – a 1929 Chrysler 75 Phaeton made a hammer price of £13,000, and a no-reserve 1938 MG TA that had been off the road for nine years looked exceptional value as the hammer dropped at £8500. Slightly humbler was a rare 1936 Austin 10 Clifton Tourer, which was sold for £5000 having been made available due to a lack of use.
Other traditional Brits included a 1956 Triumph TR2 in British Racing Green car, which had its reserve lowered ahead of the sale and was hammered away for a bargain £15,000. A late Mk1 Mini Cooper was sold for a very reasonable hammer price of £14,800, while a 1963 Jaguar MkII 3.8 auto, which had been treated to some £70,000-worth of restoration 10 years ago and had covered less than 1000 miles since, was snapped up for £24,000. We also rather liked a 1973 Triumph Stag in French Blue that had been used since 2008, which was sold for a hammer price of £11,000, and a 1964 Wolseley 1500 that found a new home for £3800.
Moving forward a few years, a 1987 Mercedes R107 300SL offered glamourous Teutonic cruising in Champagne Gold for a hammer price of £15,000, while a very tidy 2002 Porsche Boxter looked good value as it was hammered away for £4900. For those with a smaller budget, a 2004 MG TF offered open-top summer motoring for a hammer price of just £720, while a 1996 Rover 114 Convertible was something of a rarity and was hammered away for £1300.
For the full list of results, head to charterhouse-cars.com
