Three days of specialist classic car and classic motorcycle auctions at Charterhouse resulted in an auction total of just under £1 million.
“All three specialist classic car and motorcycle auctions were very well attended with buyers in the rooms, on the telephone and using three live internet bidding portals,” said Richard Bromell, from the auction house.
The three auctions comprised specialist sales of classic car, classic motorcycles and the Hammond Microcar Museum Collection in Kent.
A 1965 Peel P50, from the Hammond Microcar Museum Collection, made from fibreglass, with three wheels, one door and a tiny 49cc engine sold for £97,240 to a Swiss car collector.
In the classic car auction, a 1935 Bentley, which had been in the same farming family since 1954 and had been stored in a barn since 1968, sold for £66,352.
The 1935 Bentley needed to be fully restored but it was a 2015 Norton that had never been ridden which took the top honours. It had been stored in the owner’s house rather than being kept in a garage and had zero recorded miles – and sold for £25,168.