World public sale home and official public sale accomplice and sponsor of the Concours of Magnificence at Hampton Court docket Palace, Gooding & Firm, concluded its third stay sale within the UK on Friday, 1 September, realizing over £9.8 million in gross sales. The public sale home introduced a wide range of historic classics from essentially the most revered English and European marques throughout its bespoke public sale, with star vehicles from Ferrari, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz main the sale.
“We have been proud to conduct yet one more public sale on the prestigious Concours of Magnificence at Hampton Court docket Palace, the place we repeatedly transact among the most necessary traditional vehicles bought within the UK every year,” stated Gooding & Firm President and Co-Founder, David Gooding. “Not solely did we ship off necessary vehicles supplied from long-term possession, such because the ex-Rubirosa Ferrari 166 MM/53 Spider and the world-record Jaguar E-Sort Roadster, to their subsequent custodians, however we additionally noticed exceptionally sturdy costs achieved with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster and Ferrari 250 Europa, underscoring sustained demand for the best high quality examples at market. Moreover, numerous necessary vehicles beforehand bought at Gooding & Firm’s UK and US gross sales have been proven on the Concours to nice acclaim.”
The ex-Rubirosa 1953 Ferrari 166 MM/53 Spider was the highest sale of the day, bringing in a gross determine of £2,531,250. This important competitors Ferrari, sporting Vignale bodywork, was supplied straight from 63 years of steady, fanatic possession, and got here to public sale for the very first time at Gooding & Firm’s London sale.
The agency set a brand new world file at public sale for all manufacturing E-Varieties with the sale of the 1961 Jaguar E-Sort Sequence I 3.8-Litre Roadster, which commanded £911,250. This extraordinarily necessary Jaguar garnered the eye of main British press main as much as the public sale as the primary E-Sort ever bought, and the fourth right-hand-drive E-Sort Roadster constructed. Chassis 850004 was additionally the non-public automotive of legendary Le Mans workforce supervisor and Jaguar director Frank “Lofty” England.
A fascinating disc-brake, iron-block 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster bought nicely above estimate, reaching £1,800,000. Offered in its unique coloration mixture of Ivory (Elfenbein, DB 608) with a black hardtop over a darkish purple leather-based inside, this Roadster was expertly serviced by German marque specialists and preserved by positive artwork conservationists lately. The primary-generation 1954 Ferrari 250 Europa, one in all solely 22 examples constructed, additionally bought nicely for £1,518,750. Delivered new to acclaimed Hollywood director Clarence Leon Brown, this distinctive 250 Europa includes a Lampredi V-12 engine with understated, elegant Pinin Farina coachwork.
All through the Concours weekend, numerous vehicles beforehand bought by Gooding & Firm have been awarded excessive honors, together with the Better of Present, a 1955 Maserati A6GCS/53 Spider bought by the public sale home at Pebble Seaside in 2018. Gooding & Firm was additionally proud to pick one other alum, the 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV Speciale, for its Magnificence in Movement award. The SV Speciale, bought at Gooding & Firm’s inaugural UK sale, Ardour of a Lifetime in September 2020, nonetheless retains the world file worth for a Lamborghini Miura at public sale, and is among the many most necessary, distinctive Lamborghinis extant.
