1973 E.G. AUTOKRAFT SPORTS - HISTORICS AUCTIONEERS Saturday 21st September 2019 Mercedes Benz World Weybridge, Surrey

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Saturday 21st September 2019

Mercedes Benz World

Weybridge, Surrey

1973 E.G. AUTOKRAFT SPORTS
Registration No: HKH 862L
Chassis No: IPI501BW
Engine No: AAAJO7721D9
Estimate: £26,000 - £30,000

EG. Autokraft are renowned specialists in the world of replicas. Their productions are considered to be one of the most accurate. The dimensions of the evocation are exact and allow genuine parts to be used if required, although most used Jaguar V12 engines and running gear. The team behind these models was headed up by Emilio Garcia and Peter Jacobs. The bodies being made by Peter, whose pedigree includes designing the RS200 Ford rally car and the GTD, a very well made Ford GT40 replica. Ownership of an Autokraft replica has been enhanced by its thriving international owner's club where help completing and improving the cars can be sought.

This example presents extremely well in the classic red with beige Connolly leather seats, Wilton carpets and a Nardi steering wheel. HKH 862L retains the identity and the 5.3 litre, V12 engine and automatic gearbox of its Jaguar XJ12 donor car. A comprehensive recommissioning took place in 2013. At that time, special attention was paid to the cars indicators, door rubbers, pop-up headlamps and instruments. The extensive work undertaken at this time included the fitting of a reconditioned power steering rack, the changing of both the gearbox and engine oil, a new battery, radiator and double-lined mohair hood. This Spider is described by the vendor as being 'tremendous fun to drive' and it is easy to see why. Presented to auction with a V5C registration document and a fresh MoT test certificate, this usable Evocation is guaranteed to turn heads.

SOURCE: https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2019-09-21/cars/ref-68-1973-eg-autokraft-sports/

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1950 Healey Tickford Sports Saloon - BONHAMS AUCTIONS The Beaulieu SaleCollectors' Motor Cars & Motorcycles and Automobilia Saturday 7th September 2019 Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

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Saturday 7th September 2019

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c.1950 Healey Tickford Sports Saloon

Registration no. not UK registered

Chassis no. C1951

*One of only 222 built

*One of the fastest closed cars of its day

*Formerly part of the Aalholm Automobile Museum *Collection, Denmark

*Purchased by the Key Collection in 2012

Footnotes

• Having achieved considerable success in motorsport, Donald Healey took up a job with Riley in 1933 before being recruited by Triumph to serve as its Experimental Manager. He was soon made Technical Director, becoming responsible for the design of all Triumph cars, but remained directly involved with motorsports, the highlight of his competition career with Triumph being a class win and 3rd overall, in the 1934 Monte Carlo Rally. When Triumph folded, Healey moved to Humber, meeting fellow engineers Achille (Sammy) Sampietro and Ben Bowden, and the trio's thoughts were soon centred on the prospect of building a new sports car, though actually getting it into production would have to wait for the war's end.
  
  
  The Donald Healey Motor Company duly completed its first prototype in 1945, going into production in Warwick the following year. The nascent firm's first offerings were the Elliott sports saloon and Westland roadster, both powered by Riley's lusty 2.4-litre four-cylinder engine and built on a welded-up X-braced chassis featuring Healey's own trailing arm independent front suspension. For a time the Healey Elliott was the world's fastest closed four-seater production car, clocking 110mph at Jabbeke, Belgium in 1947. In 1950 the Elliott and Westland were superseded by the Tickford sports saloon and Abbott drophead coupé (named after their respective coachbuilders), both of which enjoyed an improved chassis incorporating Girling brakes. They were more refined and better equipped than their predecessors too and, although heavier, still good for the 'ton'. The Tickford sports saloon has been described as 'certainly the prettiest closed Healey, complete with proper boot' and though it was, relatively, the most numerous of the Riley-engined Healeys, only 222 had been built by the time production ceased in 1954.
  
  
  The Healey Tickford offered here was purchased from the sale of the Danish Aalholm Automobile Museum Collection in 2012. It represents a rare opportunity to own one of these handsome sporting saloons that aroused such intense interest in their day for their unique combination of high performance and precise road-holding. 
  
  
  Should the vehicle remain in the UK, local import taxes of 5% will be added to the hammer price.

SOURCE: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25455/lot/642/

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1964 Renault 8 Gordini Sports Saloon - .BONHAMS AUCTIONS The Beaulieu SaleCollectors' Motor Cars & Motorcycles and Automobilia Saturday 7th September 2019 Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

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1964 Renault 8 Gordini Sports Saloon

Registration no. RCA 155B

Chassis no. 501137

•One of the fastest small sports saloons of its day

•Restored in 2017

•Engine and transmission rebuilt

Footnotes

• As Carlo Abarth was to FIAT and John Cooper to BMC, so Amédee Gordini was to Renault. Since the 1950s, Amédee Gordini, known as 'Le Sorcier' for his almost magical ability to extract high power outputs from engines (particularly of small capacity), has been synonymous with performance versions of Renault saloons. Gordini's alliance with Renault commenced in 1957, and in the late 1950s/early 1960s his competition-tuned Dauphines did exceptionally well in many forms of motorsport. Their rallying victories were numerous, and indeed, a Dauphine was the first car ever to win outright the three most important rallies of the day: the Tulip Rally (1957), the Monte Carlo Rally (1958), and the Alpine Rally (1959) while also enjoying considerable great success on the racetrack. 
  Things stepped up a gear on the rallying front with the introduction in 1962 of the new Renault 8, which shared the Dauphine's rear-engined layout but used a new family of more tuneable engines. Extensively modified by Gordini, they produced 95bhp (1,108cc) and 105bhp (1,255cc), the latter being used from 1966.
  
  
  The works rally team achieved several good results at international level, but this was the era of the Mini Cooper and outright victories proved hard to achieve, although an R8 Gordini won the Tour de Corse on its first outing. In road trim, though, the Renault 8 Gordini was actually more powerful and faster than the 1,275cc Cooper S. A little over 12,000 Renault 8 Gordinis were produced between 1964 and 1970, and today they are among the most sought-after of post-war French performance cars.
  
  
  This Renault 8 Gordini benefits from a restoration undertaken in 2017 by Autovilla Classica of Twickenham, with additional input from various other specialists, and comes with their detailed invoice for £27,150. Works carried out included a body renovation (sills, inner sills, front inner wings, and right rear wing replaced); repaint inside and out; interior re-trim (using five black leather hides); and an engine rebuild by Modern & Classic Engineers. In addition, a 5th gear has been fitted inside the original gearbox, while the interior has been up-rated with two sports-type bucket seats upfront. Only recently rebuilt, both the engine and transmission will require running in. Described as in excellent condition, with concours standard bodywork and paint, this exciting French sports saloon is offered with old Norwegian registration papers, details of its owners in Norway and Sweden, and a V5C Registration Certificate.
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