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Tickets Windsor Concours on sale

TICKETS NOW ON SALE TO SEE SIXTY OF WORLD’S RAREST MOTOR CARS AT WINDSOR CASTLE CONCOURS OF ELEGANCE
Sixty of the world’s rarest motor cars - some never before seen in this country - have now been chosen to participate in the UK’s Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance, taking place on September 7 - 9, 2012.
Included in the line-up is the 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom I Jonckheere Coupé - the ‘Round Door Rolls’ - coming from the Petersen Museum in LA; three Pebble Beach ‘Best of Shows’: a 1931 Daimler Double-Six 50 Corsica Drophead Coupé, a 1933 Delage D8S de Villars Roadster and a 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta; an award-winning 1957 Ferrari 250 GT Zagato Berlinetta; and the 1948 Vincent Black Lightning Prototype better known as Rollie Free’s ‘Bathing Suit Bike’.
This is the first time such an event has been granted permission to be held at Windsor Castle and the cars - some of the most outstanding classic examples from around the world - will be displayed in its spectacular Quadrangle. 
In Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, the Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance is a significant new event celebrating the style and glamour of historic automobiles. 

Tickets for the event – which is open to the public on Saturday, September 8 and Sunday, September 9 from 9.30am to 5.00pm – are now on sale from £25.00 via the Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance website http://www.concoursofelegance.com. 
Friday, September 7 is a designated invitation-only ‘Owners Day’. Further details of all the classic motor cars due at the Concours are also on the website, together with detailed travel information etc.
For overseas visitors, luxury travel specialist Abercrombie & Kent is offering several packages to the UK including a VIP day at the Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance. http://www.abercrombiekent.com/travel/?tid=5561
The organisers - Thorough Events Ltd - will run the event as a not-for-profit enterprise with all profits going to a major charity. 

Friday, 04 May 2012

   

Sir Antony Pilkington collection at Goodwood

Outstanding motor cars from the late Sir Antony Pilkington collection to be offered by Bonhams at Goodwood

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1970 Aston Martin DB6 Mk 2 Volante, uprated to Vantage Specification

the five remaining motor cars belonging to the renowned businessman Sir Antony Pilkington are to be sold by Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday 29th June 2012. The motor cars are expected to realise in excess of £800,000.

Sir Antony was the last family chairman of Pilkington Brothers, the Lancashire company that achieved world leadership in glassmaking. As he told an interviewer in 1990, he wanted Pilkington to be "a good company in the best sense... not just a money machine", winning much respect and local support for the company. During the industrial recession of the early 1980s, where Pilkington needed to reduce its workforce, Sir Antony founded the pioneering Community of St Helen's Trust to create small-business opportunities for those made redundant. It is evident throughout Sir Antony's achievements that he combined business acumen whilst maintaining strong relationships with the local community, many of whom had worked for the company through generations. He was knighted in 1990.

Alongside his business successes, Sir Antony was also a great connoisseur collector from a golden era of the Collectors' motor car market. He owned some of the world's most desirable cars such as a Ferrari 250 GTO and a Maserati 300S in which he competed in the Mille Miglia on eight consecutive years between 1987 and 1994. Bonhams are delighted to offer the last five remaining motor cars from Sir Antony's collection, all of which are, in some way, prime examples of their type and have been very well looked after by the family for many years. Sir Antony's widow, Kirsty now feels it is time for other collectors to enjoy them as much as she, her husband and family have done.

The collection consists of:

the ex-RAC, Alpine and Tulip Rally 1957 AC Ace-Bristol Sports Two-Seater The Bristol engined Ace is regarded by any as the most desirable variant and this particular example can boast period international rally history. Estimate £170,000 - 200,000.

Family owned since 1979 and 58,000 miles from new
1970 Aston Martin DB6 Mk 2 Volante, uprated to Vantage Specification
This example is now in the ultimate DB6 specification and matches the car HM Queen Elizabeth II gave to Prince Charles on his 21st Birthday. Just 38 MK2 Volantes were built between July 1969 and November 1970. Estimate £320,000 - 360,000.

The ex-Mervyn Frankel 1939 Bentley MR-Series 4¼-litre Tourer
Coachwork in the style of Vanden Plas by James Pearce
The MR and MX-Series Bentleys are the most desirable as they were supplied new with overdrive to provide long legged and relaxed high speed motoring. Mervyn Frankel is synonymous with the Bentley marque and it was he who commissioned James Pearce in 1976 to build the Vanden Plas tourer style coachwork, one of the most sought after on a 'Derby Bentley'. Estimate £100,000 - 140,000

12,000 miles since comprehensive restoration and 40,000 miles from new 1973 Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona
Spyder conversion by Autokraft
In excellent all round condition, having been comprehensively restored by marque specialists DK Engineering. Estimate £160,000 - 190,000.

Sir Antony's first ever car 1951 HRG Sports Two-Seater
This car was bought for Sir Antony to entice him away from motorcycles. He sold the HRG after a few years, but re-discovered the car again years later, bringing it back into the family collection. Estimate £45,000 - 55,000

James Knight, Group Head of Motoring at Bonhams, comments, "When I first started working in the Collectors' Motor Car market in 1984 it did not take long for me to recognise who the great collectors were in the UK. One of them was Antony Pilkington, later Sir Antony, a man with an exceptional eye, who focused on cars that were not only highly collectable, but were particularly interesting examples, whether by specification - such as the Aston Martin DB6 MKII Volante, or provenance - such as the AC Ace-Bristol with period RAC, Alpine and Tulip Rally history. It is a great honour for Bonhams and for me personally to handle this wonderful collection on behalf of the Pilkington family."

 

Thursday, 03 May 2012

   

Record business at 36th Spring Carlisle

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Spring Fever at Carlisle

36th Spring Carlisle Does Record Business over Five-Day Span

 

CARLISLE, PA – Spring Carlisle delivered in 2012, proving that Carlisle's second longest running event is as fresh as ever.  The weekend featured great weather, more than 100,000 show goers, celebrities, sold out vending from fence line to fence line, and at its peak, saw shoppers four and five deep in the vending area and lines at the food court.

 

With a majority of sunny days throughout the weekend, Spring Carlisle launched with set-up day on Wednesday followed by four great days of sales.  Beginning on Wednesday, vendors and buyers came from far and wide to stage for what turned out to be a spectacular weekend.  Highlights included Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel at Carlisle on Thursday, the two-day auto auction presented by Auctions America by RM on Thursday and Friday and the future of the automotive hobby on display with the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Friday and Saturday. 

 

As part of the two-day auction, Carlisle Events and Auctions America by RM worked together to move nearly 300 cars across the block in front of a packed Carlisle Expo Center on Thursday and Friday evenings.  The auction attracted bidders from 28 states, Canada, the Netherlands and Switzerland, in addition to numerous phone and internet participants.  With standing room only crowds, bids flew at a fever pace, producing a 51% sell through rate for a total of $2.4 million over the course of the weekend.  The totals reflect all buyers' premiums as well.  In addition, a 1957 Corvette was the highest selling car, going for $99,000. 

 

“Auctions America is all about getting people into the collector cars they love,” said President Donnie Gould.

 

On grounds at Carlisle, swap meet and car corral excitement progressed at a fever pitch before, during and after the center stage attraction, the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow.  Five schools and more than a dozen teams consisting of high- school-aged tech students battled as part of an engine build competition that saw teams of five tear down and reassemble a Chevy small block engine.  The winning team and top four finishers for that matter came from Salem, Virginia and the Burton Center for Arts and Technology.  This was Burton's second win at Carlisle, completing the task in 29 minutes, 10 seconds.  The Burton students not only earn $5,000 per student in scholarship money, but also a trip to the finals at SEMA in Las Vegas this fall.  In addition, the second place team earned $3,000 per student, while $2,000 per student went to the third place team.  All other teams earned $1,000 per student for simply participating.

 

"Spring Carlisle has become a staple in the lives of many car hobbyists, as it has mine," commented co-owner Lance Miller. "Spring Carlisle weekend has become a reunion for many people visiting and we’re honored and thrilled to provide an outlet for many car enthusiasts to enjoy such gatherings," added Miller.  "Spring Carlisle launched our season right and we’re glad to have this strong momentum from our first event.  We hope that it continues throughout the rest of the season.  We’re eager to see many more smiles during the rest of our events this season. The automotive hobby is extremely strong right now and this event showed its force. Life is good!”

 

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About Carlisle Events:  Carlisle Events, host of 10 annual collector car, truck and motorcycle events, attracts more than half a million people to its 150-acre facility in Carlisle, Pennsylvania each year. Included in the annual events schedule are two huge automotive swap meets and auctions –Spring and Fall – and individual specialty shows featuring Corvettes, Fords, GMs, Chryslers, trucks, motorcycles, imports and kit cars, and tuner and modern customs. Founded in 1974 by friends Bill Miller and Chip Miller, the “Cars at Carlisle” shows attract automotive enthusiasts from around the world. Information about Carlisle Events and Carlisle Auctions is available to consumers via the Internet at www.CarlisleEvents.com and www.CarlisleAuctions.com

Wednesday, 02 May 2012

   

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