Classic car sale raises nearly £700k for keen collector
A collection of classic cars and motorbikes that have been on show to the public at a small museum for the past ten years fetched more than two-thirds of a million pounds at auction on Saturday.
The entire contents of the Exmoor Classic Car Museum, based at Porlock in Somerset, went under the hammer at a sale at Beaulieu in Hampshire on Saturday.
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A collection of classic cars and motorbikes that have been on show to the public at a small museum for the past ten years fetched more than two-thirds of a million pounds at auction
Some of the cars and motorbikes dated back to the 1920s, and by the end of the day, keen collector Stephen Johns had accumulated some £667,128.
Every lot in the collection of ten cars, 13 motorcycles and assorted automobilia sold, with the top lots a 1927 Bugatti Type 40 Roadster (£149,340), a 1972 Ferrari ‘Dino’ 246GTS Spider (£144,860), and a 1923 Rolls Royce 20hp Doctor’s Coupe (£57,500).
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Mr Johns ran a pyjama manufacturer in Yorkshire before ‘retiring’ to Exmoor, opening his private collection to the public ten years ago. Now he is retiring for a second time, and so sold off the museum.
Jonathan Vickers, Bonhams motoring specialist for the West Country, said: “We were privileged to offer the collection for sale at Beaulieu and we were delighted to see it achieve the prices it did.”
The 1972 Ferrari ‘Dino’ 246GTS Spider (£144,860) takes pride of place in Stephen John’s museum. Left, a 1923 Rolls Royce 20hp Doctor’s Coupe (£57,500), right, a 1927 Bugatti Type 40 Tourer, and a 1948 DOT 125cc AA motorcycle truck
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