Iconic’s latest classic auction was bristling with variety and quality at the Silverstone Festival 2024. Here are our highlights
Fast Fords were unquestionably the theme of the day at Iconic Auctioneers latest sale, with two Escorts taking headlines. First up was the 1976 Mk2 RS2000 originally owned by Henry Ford II and uniquely specified with an automatic transmission, which was presented beautifully in Roman Bronze Metallic and sold for £59,063. The other was the 1992 Escort RS Cosworth formerly run by Jeremy Clarkson, which featured in his Car Years TV show as well as being given away in Top Gear Magazine, and changed hands for £67,500.
Other sporting Blue Ovals to sell well included a 1983 Mk3 Escort RS1600i that was fresh from a three-year nut-and-bolt restoration and went for £36,000, a 1969 Mk2 Lotus Cortina that had covered just 536 miles since its concours-quality restoration and fetched £28,867, and a 1987 Capri 2.8 Injection Special that was described as “one of the finest Iconic has ever presented,” which ultimately changed hands for £45,000.
There were Jaguars aplenty too, including a pair of X150 Roadsters. A sympathetically restored 1959 car in Signal Red fetched £55,688, while a 1957 BRG car described as “as good as it gets for an XK150” earned itself a £59,625 sale price.
The same BRG-over-tan spec could be found on a 1965 4.2 FHC example of its E-Type successor, with came with a six-page invoice for work completed last year totalling over £10,000, and went on to sell for £50,063. For those preferring a later XJS, a 1993 4.0 Cabriolet was for you – striking in bright red and sporting the rare manual transmission, it benefitted from recommissioning work by Ant Anstead and his team for an upcoming TV show, which no doubt encouraging the winning bidder to pay £9000.
That wasn’t the only Anstead-fettled car in the sale, however – a yellow 1980 Triumph Dolomite Sprint that had also enjoyed recommissioning and upgrades courtesy of Anstead achieved an impressive £16,313 sale. Remarkably, it was joined by another yellow Triumph saloon – a 1972 2500 PI that sold for £12,375.
Low-mileage examples of modern classic performance cars were also plentiful, including a 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2.5 with a paltry 7000 miles to its name, which sold for £27,000. A 2002 Honda S2000 GT thought to be the lowest-mileage example available thanks to an odometer reading of just 1179 was sold for £30,375, while a 13,500-mile example of the popular Mk1 Ford Focus RS found a new home for £34,875.
For the full list of results, head to iconicauctioneers.com
