528 classics sell for £11.27m and sale rates average 63%
Ford Escort RS1600i, Triumph TR5 PI and Austin Westminster Countryman all break records
After the nine UK sales reviewed in CCW (where results were forthcoming), 528 of the 843 classics auctioned during June changed hands for an impressive total of £11.27m with premium. That works out as an average of £21,346 spent per car. Of course, in a month that contained the annual Bonhams Aston Martin auction held during AMOC Concours weekend at Englefield House, such a tally isn’t that surprising. This highest grossing sale of the month saw 21 Astons sold for £5.01m. But there was also the latest Anglia Car Auctions sale at King’s Lynn, where 213 classics fetched £1.9m.
The sales rate ranged from as high as 80 per cent at the Norfolk firm’s Drive Through in King’s Lynn, where a month-topping 267 cars were consigned, down to 37 per cent in the H&H tent behind the RAC Woodcote Park Country Club in Surrey, where 20 cars sold. The average sale rate for the month was 63 per cent, Classic Car Auctions selling 66 per cent of its 171 strong entry for £1.52m in Warwickshire, Barons 65 per cent at Sandown Park and Dorset Vintage and Classic Auctions 63 per cent in Dorset. Charterhouse at Shepton Mallet, and Brightwells at both Leominster and Bicester Heritage, all shifted 55 per cent of classics in their catalogues.
Several milestone prices were paid in June, too. Among them were the £46,300 for a one-owner, 8000-mile 1983 Ford Escort RS1600i at CCA and the £40,280 that was spent for a 1968 Triumph TR5 PI for restoration at ACA. However, perhaps the most impressive figure of all was the world record £32,860 sale of the restored
Practical Classics 1958 Austin Westminster Countryman, which benefitted the Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund charity.