FF 127/293 at Bonhams auction

[Peter Rothery]

Top man though despite his oversized grommets.

[Grant]

I am an Interceptor towbar

That would explain a lot about your posts.

..I am so proud to be an Interceptor TowBar in-disguise as a bearded Bin-Laden look-a-like
Well spotted to you too Stephen!!

[Martin R]

I am an Interceptor towbar

[MikeWilliams]

Maybe my eyesight but it looks to ride very high at the back. With the towing grommets suggests perhaps a rear spring modification. But superb condition everywhere. Could set a record price for an FF?

Mike

[Martin R]

Maybe my eyesight but it looks to ride very high at the back. With the towing grommets suggests perhaps a rear spring modification. But superb condition everywhere. Could set a record price for an FF?

Mike

It does look high at the rear and my first thoughts were perhaps rear coil-overs but, the photos suggest not.
Perhaps it's simply all new leaf springs etc and haven't yet settled. It does all look brand new!
Stunning car.

[Peter Rothery]

Sold £96,000 +premiums

[felixkk]

Verkauft für £ 110,400 (CHF 141,370) inkl. Zuschlag

110'400 incl premium

[jvcarrier]

It was a very odd sale, Virtually everything was sold for under low estimate many 20% down. The fact that all of the Stan West collection was sold at no reserve seemed to take a lot of buyers money out of the equation.

The odd exception was the Iso Grifo guided at £200k -250k which sold for £300k which with commission is £350k - given there was 1/8 inch of mayo on the top of the oil on the dipstick made it all the money and then some.

FF was very good but not outstanding, some minor flaws in the paint work but allowing for the generally low prices it did better than average

[johnw]

Murder on the dance floor! Major Sir Donald Campbell's 1920s Rolls Royce, restored, up and running with open tourer bodywork, just about scraped £50K once buyers premiums are added. First man to drive at over 300mph, land and water world speed record holder in the 20s! The Elvis of his day. Unbelievable. You could have left with that Rolls, AND, as in with both, a genuine, very original 1960s AC Coupe https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27000/ ... egory=list for what you expected to pay for the FF.

If someone was going to buy that FF, I would have said have £130K+, think £15K for the FF2 (Fast Freddie?) number plate, £115k for the car, plus premium. To have passed up on the Rolls Tourer seeing it bid up to just under £50K, Campbell built his own body for it which is now lost (RR were performance cars and endurance racers back then!) but still, would have been an open car. You would have had to watch that sell for less than a random similar car on ebay, would be a good wedding car, plus the AC coupe, various Aston bargains, gorgeous Ferrari 330 for £150k, before the Jensen came up. You would really have needed a tight grip of your wallet.

The paint defect mentioned? Bodyshops and detailing can sort things like that relatively easily, it does affect value but only by the cost of the work. The interior was gorgeous, clearly original, not a wholesale retrim, the underside and engine bay looked done to a level of detail that gave confidence in the car. Any idea what the underbody finish was? Simply black paint? It looked glossy, so easy to spot rust. Also the brake pipes were not copper or copper nickel. Were they galvanised steel or stainless? Interesting.