Editorial

And the market rolls on – another blockbusting week at the salerooms, this time in Arizona where some mighty figures were posted for collectors’ motor cars. You can read the latest news below, suffice it to say the European car prices are interesting – quality and provenance as ever will out – while the home grown muscle car phenomenon shows no sign of abating.

These cars are great fun, and the major US manufacturers are enjoying their renaissance with the re-introduction of retro-looking machines like the Mustang, Camaro and Challenger, but $517,000 for a Plymouth HEMI ‘Cuda, however rare and esoteric the specification and paint scheme (Curious Yellow, if you’re, er…curious) is a lot of loot.

Likewise £130,500 for the Bentley Continental GTC I drove the other day. By necessity of the elements, the test was mainly from behind seamlessly swiping windscreen wipers, with industrial strength traffic allowing more time to study the interior of the car than a corner’s apex, but nevertheless I came away with an awesome impression of the car’s quality, something that the powers-that-be at Bentley have invested an awful lot of a Plymouth HEMI ‘Cuda’s worth on.

The Ford GT was pretty good too – you can read all about them in this week’s ClassicInside.

Steve Wakefield Managing Editor sw@classicdriver.com