For its fourth and final sale of 2016, Historics at Brooklands will hope to continue its impressive run of results already achieved this year. Taking place on 26 November, the 142-lot catalogue is as diverse as they come, featuring everything from three-wheeled micro-car curios to exotic Italian supercars.
While certain manufacturers such as Porsche and Aston Martin realise that purists still care dearly for the manual gearbox, others – including Ferrari and Lamborghini – have consigned it to history altogether. These 10 mighty manuals from the Classic Driver Market represent what could well be the final flourish for ‘old-fashioned’ driving interaction and enjoyment.
Legislation is a cruel mistress. It drains the creativity from designers and engineers, who are forced to compromise their unshackled visions to adhere to a prescribed list of regulations that ‘save’ both the planet and its people. But imagine a world where history’s wildest concepts were actually produced, and where people went about their day-to-day lives driving Maserati Boomerangs, Ferrari Testa d’Oros and Alfa Romeo Navajos.
The redesigned Petersen Museum in L.A. proved an apt location for Jaguar Classic to introduce the prototype XKSS continuation, given that the ‘lost nine’ of the planned 25 XKSSs were originally destined for the U.S. market before being destroyed in the catastrophic fire. Painted in Sherwood Green, the new ‘car zero’ will act as a blueprint for the nine customer continuation cars – each of which adopts a period chassis number and is now sold at a cost in excess of £1m.
