The Ford Mustang featured in the hit movie Gone in 60 Seconds, starring Nicolas Cage, made £97,000 at a recent auto auction.

COYS annual Autosport International auction, the first international auction held in 2012, underlined the continuing strength in the historic and specialist car market worldwide.

Excellent prices were achieved, most notable being £117,000 for a 1973 Ferrari Dino, £85,000 for the Alan Mann GT40 continuation, and £91,000 for an Ascari KZ1R.

The event attendance was enormous, and catalogues were sold out. Successful buyers came from the US, Australia, Japan, and Europe. COYS also managed to sell all of the Alan Mann Racing Collection. Chris Routledge managing director of COYS, said "Autosport is now a traditional COYS venue, with our close associations with motorsport and the racing fraternity at all levels, it is the perfect event to open our year.

"We were honoured to be representing Alan Mann, and achieved sales of all of his cars. We are already planning a bigger and better return in 2013."

COYS also announced it is to sponsor the world famous Vernasca hill climb in Italy, which this year is to celebrate the " Best of British."

The famous Italian Hill Climb, from June 15 to 17, will feature famous British marques and honour British drivers.