Silverstone Auctions are proud to be offering these exciting classic cars to the market via a live online auction on 23rd May 2020. Meaning we will have an auctioneer live which you can watch and participate with online, on the phone or via a commission bid.
Subject to Government advice in the lead up to the event we will, by prior appointment, be offering private, relaxed, one to one viewings in a central location .
Tom Kristensen, aka Mr Le Mans, has won at the Circuit de la Sarthe a record nine times, six of which were scored consecutively from 2000–2005. But even exclusive of his exemplary performances in the French endurance classic, the great Dane’s résumé is nothing short of extraordinary, encompassing six 12 Hours of Sebring wins, an FIA GT Championship and victory in the inaugural Kinrara Trophy at the Goodwood Revival.
The coronavirus pandemic might have halted our freedom of travel and locked down virtually all of Europe, but that hasn’t stopped The Houtkamp Collection in the Netherlands from ‘keeping calm and carrying on’. With the help of modern technology such as video conference calling, trade has thrived in the face of adversity. And Rutger Houtkamp and the team have been putting their spare time to good use.
In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, the top Italian carrozzerie queued up for the chance to design coachwork for Fiat’s latest wares, resulting in a multitude of drastically different shapes on a plethora of different cars, from the opulent Otto Vu to the dinky 500. In their own distinctive and interesting ways, Fiat’s cars – be them styled by Zagato, Vignale, Pininfarina or Boano – always epitomised the cultural trends of the time.
