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EDITORIAL
"Are you planning on leaving that there?" It's a familiar refrain. You bring a carefully dismantled piece of car/motorbike/outboard motor into the warm and dry for further examination and it upsets the domestic arrangements.
Maybe that's why Bonhams' remarkably unadulterated Bugatti Type 57S Atalante stayed in its owner's garage for 50 years. The alternative would have been a house full of cardboard boxes, with vital nuts, bolts and washers in jam–jars, and a rusting metal skeleton, stripped of all working parts.
Not that I'm suggesting the 72–year–old car would have been on bricks, under a roped–down tarpaulin next to the rabbit hutch in the front garden — but you get the picture. Do I regret stripping a running DB4 rescued from a scrapyard in the '90s to its component parts... and then selling it as a restoration project, for not a lot more, a few years later?
Oh yes.
Easy come, easy go, I say. We have all the news on the Bugatti, results from the Arizona sales and more in this week's ClassicInside.
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Steve Wakefield |
THIS WEEK IN CLASSIC DRIVER
Porsche Panamera: Design AnalysisOur design expert, Chris Hrabalek, looks at the new four–door four-seater from Porsche... read more... |
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RM Auctions — Automobiles of Arizona Jan 16 2009Includes full resultsTop seller at RM's $18 million 2009 Arizona auction was the 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4, the Giallo Fly Berlinetta achieving $918,500. read more... |
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Classic Driver Dealer: Eagle E–TypesWhere quality is kingIf you have ever owned a Jaguar E-type, or even thought of owning one, then you will almost certainly have heard of Eagle E–Types, the definitive specialist in East Sussex. read more... |
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Gooding & Co. — The Scottsdale Auction Jan 17th 2009Includes full resultsGooding impressed onlookers by selling the unrestored 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider, an entry from the estate of Ron VanKregten, for $4,950,000 — a triumph in today's harder–edged market. read more... |
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Fisker Karma: 100mpg Hybrid Production CarDetroit sees world premiereThe production version of the four–door, four–seat 2010 Fisker Karma, which claims to be the world's first luxury plug–in hybrid car, has been unveiled at the NAIAS in Detroit. read more... |
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Bonhams to Sell Unrestored Bugatti T57S at Rétromobile 2009Includes full sale lotlistThe story hit the international headlines at Christmas. Now it's the Editor's turn to investigate the tale of the incredibly original ex–Earl Howe 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante. read more... |
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THE CLASSIC DRIVER PREMIUM CAR MARKET
MODERN
Audi R8 R-Tronic
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Lava Grey Sideblade, 6 CD Changer, Leather Gearknob, Satelite Navigation Plus, Headlining in Black Cloth, Bluetooth, Audi Magnetic Suspension.
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William LoughranTown/City: Preston, UK |
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CLASSIC
Ferrari Dino 246 GTS
colour Yellow |
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The GTS version of the 246 Dino arrived at the Geneva Salon in March 1972. It featured a removable targa roof panel that could be stowed behind the seats, the chassis being reinforced with extra bracing along the sides and front of the engine frame. Visually, the GTS had no rear three–quarter windows, these being replaced by a bank of three vents carved out from each sail panel.
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DK EngineeringTown/City: |
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SPORTING
Ferrari F430 Challenge
colour Red |
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Track Day use only, 2 seats, Spare Wheels.
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Avro Motor CarsTown/City: Brooklands, UK |
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EVENTGUIDE 2009
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06.02. — 15.02. Rétromobile 2009, Paris, France |
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