The Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2024 sale has certainly packed in the lots – there are 180 items to choose from, of which around half are cars spanning motoring history, from pre-vintage to hypercars.
It’s not been an easy year for Bonhams, as previously reported here, and the auction house’s Monterey sale didn’t improve matters. Can this year’s Goodwood Revival selection box provide better results? We’ve picked ten lots worth keeping an eye on when they go under the hammer on September 7. What are you in for?
This 2021 Aston Martin V12 Speedster leads the auction by pre-sale estimate. One of 12 believed to have been built in right-hand drive, it’s covered just 325 miles since new. As one of 88 built in total, it’s had two previous owners and boasts the extra-cost 1950s Racing Green livery option. It’s estimated at £700k-£900k.
Other post-war Aston Martin highlights include a right-hand-drive 2007 DB7 Zagato on 3666 miles (est: £200k-£260k), a 2002 Vanquish first owned by actor Hugh Grant (est: £55k-£65k), one of nine DBS V8s finished in Persuaders-specification Bahama Yellow (est: £90k-£120k), a Dubonnet Rosso 1969 DB6 Vantage (est: £180k-£240k), a rare fuel-injected RHD DB6 Mk2 Vantage offered at no reserve (est: £160k-£220k) and a 2010 DBS (£60k-£80k).
Originally a Gurney Nutting-bodied coupé, better known by its later owners as Bertie, this 1927 Bentley 4½ Litre Vanden Plas Tourer was first owned by a Dr Bulcock. Its entire history is known up to Gordon Self, who bought the car from Julian Ghosh in 1974. The seller acquired the car from Self in 1994. Self had restored the car during the 1980s, and it has since been used for travelling across the UK and Europe; the braking system was overhauled in 2023. It’s estimated at between £300k and £400k.
Other Bentley highlights include a 1939 4¼ Litre Vanden Plas-style Tourer that’s benefitted from a £240k restoration (est: £120k-£160k), a one-of-15 2020 Continental GT Pikes Peak (est: £195k-£230k) and a S3 Continental Sports Saloon, one of 12 bodied in four-door style by James Young, and offered from 40 years of ownership (est: £70k-£100k).
The second-highest-valued lot by pre-sale estimate is the 1998 Porsche 993 Turbo – while not the last aircooled 911 built (that was a Carrera 4S sold to Jerry Seinfeld), it is the last one to leave the factory in period. It was ordered by German author Clauss Vanderborg, who engaged the Sonderwunsch (Special Wishes) department (now known as Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur) to create his vision of the ultimate 911 Turbo. It was fitted with a WLS 2 uprated M64.60 engine producing around 450bhp, a strut brace, twin-pipe exhausts, additional oil cooler and 92-litre fuel tank. The wheels and Brembo brake calipers were finished in matching Ocean Blue. The interior was fully trimmed in Night Blue leather, including switches, door latches, heater controls and the instrument bezels.
The car was completed on March 27, 1998, the day Ferry Porsche died at the age of 88. Vanderborg, a friend of Ferry Porsche, dedicated the car to the company’s founder, and plaque on the dashboard states ‘In memoriam Prof Ferry Porsche’ along with a quote in German from the popular 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl): “Only the memories we carry with us are real, the dreams we spin and the desires that drive us true. But with that we can be satisfied.” It was delivered to Vanderborg in September 1998; he kept it for a year, and it would stay in Japan for the next 16 years. It was then bought by Belgian dealer Nijsmans Classic Cars, which kept it for two years before selling it to the UK. It later went to a Belgian owner. It’s estimated at between £700k and £800k.
Other 911 highlights include a 1973 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring coming from single-family ownership of 50 years (est: £400k-£500k), a single-ownership-from-new 930 Turbo SE Flat Nose (est: £160k-£200k), a 1967 911 SWB soft-window Targa (est: £130k-£160k) and a 964 Carrera 2 prepared to RS specification (£65k-£75k).
This 1935 Aston Martin Ulster is one of ten Works team cars out of a total of 31 built. Coming from the collection of David L Van Schaick (long-term president of the American Aston Martin Owners’ Club), chassis B5/551/U was tested in period by The Light Car magazine at Brooklands, before later being crashed by another journalist a few months later. It was returned to Aston Martin, and later rebuilt to a 2/4-seater body by Alex Riddell. It would spend much of the 1930s and 1940s in Scotland and in St Albans, before moving to London first via Duncan Chisholm, and then passing to Donald Joseph Matthias, who used it in the Horsfall Trophy in 1951. Around this time it was given a 2.0-litre replacement engine, with the original going to Le Mans chassis F3/287/S.
A succession of owners followed through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including Richard and Peggy Scates, who used the car for continental touring and VSCC events. It went to Ron McBride of Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1977, when it was pained blue. It was eventually acquired by Van Schaick in 1983, and used extensively in touring events and AMOC meetings across the US. During his ownership the car’s engine was rebuilt with a new block and a competition camshaft. It’s estimated at between £500k and £700k.
Other pre-war Aston Martin highlights in the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale include a 1938 2.0-litre 15/98 Short-Chassis Sports Tourer (est: £170k-£200k) and a 1935 1½-Litre Mk2 Long-Chassis Tourer (est: £150k-£200k).
This 1954 Jaguar XK120 3.8-Litre ‘Alloy LT’ Competition Roadster was built by marque specialist CKL as a toolroom copy of the alloy-bodied LT Le Mans cars. The engine has triple 2in SU carburettors, high-compression cylinder head, thick ‘3.8’ steel block, steel crankshaft, steel race conrods, forged pistons, lightened flywheel, triple-plate competition clutch, hydraulic release bearing and anodised billet-aluminium cylinders. It also has a Denis Welch Motorsport four-speed all-synchromesh 4.2 E-type straight-cut close-ratio gearbox, rack-and-pinion steering, alloy XK140 radiator and oil-cooling radiator.
Additional features include a limited-slip differential (3.77:1 ratio), full race harnesses, removable roll cage, ignition cut-off switch, fire extinguisher, foam-filled alloy fuel tank in original position, ‘Aston’-type filler cap and a full Sparco/Corbeau-type modern safety racing driver’s seat, trimmed to original pattern to match the passenger’s XK120 competition seat. The latest upgrade was to install new Öhlins suspension dampers for competition use. Built at a cost of around £400k and completed in 2012, it’s estimated at between £100k and £150k.
Other Jaguar highlights include a 1961 E-type Series 1 3.8 flat-floor Roadster (est: £180k-£250k), 1959 XK150 DHC (est: £80k-£120k), 1954 XK120 SE DHC (est: £70k-£80k), 1961 E-type Series 1 3.8 flat-floor Coupé (est: £125k-£150k), a 1955 XK140 that has been in single-family ownership from new (est: £125k-£150k) and the ex-Eric Haddon/1953 RAC Rally 1950 XK120 Competition Roadster (est: £115k-£135k).
This 1979 Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC 5.0 ‘Rallyewagen’ Coupé is one of seven Works cars, and it was rallied in period by Hannu Mikkola. Chassis 626 first served as a practice car for the Safari Rally and Cote d’Ivoire Rally in 1979, before making its one and only proper competition debut at the 1980 Rally Codasur in Argentina. Mikkola and co-driver Arne Hertz finished in second, helping Mikkola cement second place in the World Rally Championship that year. After the conclusion of the rally programme, it is believed the Mercedes-Benz was partially dismantled and, along with all the other cars and spares, sold to Albert Pfuhl. This collection was acquired by SLCRacing in 2007, and fully restored. It’s estimated at between £200k and £300k.
Other Mercedes-Benz highlights in the Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2024 sale include a 1925 15/70/100HP (est: £200k-£300k), 1951 220 prototype (est: £150k-£200k), 1962 300 SE Cabriolet first sold to Peter Sellers (est: £130k-£180k), 1971 600 Saloon (est: £75k-£100k) and 1963 220 SEb Cabriolet (est: £130k-£180k).
This 1934 MG NE Magnette Sports-Racing Two-Seater was originally campaigned by Captain George Eyston, and took part in the 1934 Ulster Trophy. It was then sold to British-resident Georgian aristocrat and private owner/driver George Bagratouni, nom de course for Prince George Imeretinsky of Georgia. He used it for 25 events between 1935 and 1937, notching up eight hillclimb and speed-trial class wins, before selling it to John Sherwood of Sydney, Australia, via John Snow and Jack Saywell, in order to compete in the 1938 Australian Grand Prix at Bathurst.
The Magnette would continue to compete at Bathurst until 1940 via Sherwood and another owner, and its post-war life saw several new owners along with further airstrip and hillclimb competition. More changes of ownership followed in the 1950s, during which time it had acquired a Holden engine. It was sold to Lance Dixon in the late 1960s, who had it fully restored, with an N-Type MG engine and gearbox fitted. In 1982 it was acquired by Peter Briggs and put on display at the York Motor Museum in Australia. During its more than 40 years on display, it was restored again in the mid-1990s; it’s estimated at between £225k and £275k.
Other pre-war highlights include a 1932 Bugatti Type 35T Grand Prix (est: £250k-£350k), 1922 GN Akela with Brooklands history (£120k-£160k), 1937 Riley TT Sprite Recreation (est: £90k-£130k), 1936 Jaguar SS1 SS90 prototype recreation (est: £90k-£120k), 1925 Amilcar CGS Voiturette (est: £50k-£60k), 1913 Benz 8/20 Roadster (£50k-£80k) and 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Corto Spider recreation (est: £475k-£650k).
This 1987 Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth is the 17th off the Aston Martin Tickford production line, and was first sold to an insurance salesman from London. He quickly offloaded it to the current owner after just a month, who put it into long-term storage in 1994. It carries a mileage of 17,223, and comes with a matching set of original-fitment Dunlop Sport D40 tyres. A failed 1991 theft attempt left its marks around the door, frame and sunroof, which remain on the car to this day. The RS500 was last serviced in 2015, and is estimated at between £100k and £150k.
Other fast Fords in the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale include an ex-Alan Mann Racing 1968-1969 Escort driven by Graham Hill, Jackie Oliver, Peter Arundell and Yvette Fontaine (est: £180k-£250k), a 1980 Capri 3.0 built for racing in 2020 (winning the Silverstone Classic Group 1 race back-to-back in 2021/22; est: £80k-£120k) and a 1971 Ford Escort Mexico raced by Colin Chapman at the Jack Brabham Trophy Race for Formula 1 team managers at Brands Hatch in 1971 (est: £65k-£95k).
This 1933 MG Magnette K3 Supercharged Sports-Racing Two-Seater is credited as being driven by Captain George Eyston/Count Giovanni Lurani to win the 1100cc class in the Mille Miglia. It is also credited as winning the 1933 RAC Tourist Trophy at Ards with Tazio Nuvolari, and was later part of the the Fremantle and York Motor Museums, having been rescued from a scrapyard in the 1960s. The precise identity of the chassis has been a matter of debate – you can read more of its story here – and it is estimated at between £700k and £800k.
Other competition cars up for grabs in the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale include an ex-Stirling Moss 1964 Elva-BMW Mark 7S (est: £120k-£150k), ex-Anita Taylor/Gerry Marshall 1964 Austin Mini Cooper 1071 S (est: £65k-£90k), ex-1959/1960 Tulip Rally 1959 MGA Twin Cam (est: £35k-£45k), 1956 Jaguar Mk1 3.4 Appendix K saloon (est: £50k-£60k) and 1965 Ford Mustang 4.7 (est: £45k-£55k).
This 1985 Audi Sport Quattro is one of 164 customer road-going Group B homologation cars built with 306bhp, and it has had two UK owners – one being Duncan Hamilton, from whom the vendor acquired the car in 1994. Currently showing 65,786km, it is described as being standard, and features factory harness seatbets and original-specification Michelin tyres. It is estimated at between £495k and £595k.
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