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Important Sports, Competition and Collectors' Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia — Bonhams & Goodman (No longer trading)
| Auction House: | Bonhams & Goodman (No longer trading) | Number of lots recorded: | 75 |
| Sale Title: | Important Sports, Competition and Collectors' Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia | Lots with images: | 71 |
| Auction Location: | Sydney | Prices available: | 60 |
| Date: | 16-Nov-2008 |
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3 Motoring books. Including Castanotti Stolen Heart, Bizzerrini un Tecnico votato alle corse, Pilloti, cha gente, Ltd of 2500 copies
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3 Motoring books. Guiness Motor Racing records, Cenna and Clark Due Miti a Confronto and Track Record, Motor Sport Photography
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1936 Bsa 750cc Model Y13 Frame no.: D13. 294 Engine no.: D13. 202 During the 1930s Bsa concentrated on producing an extensive and varied range of dependable, well-made and competitively priced motorcycles. The majority of these were singles, but for the sidecar market Bsa offered the Model G 985cc sidevalve v-twin and for the more sportingly inclined rider, a smaller overhead-valve v-twin, the 499cc Model J
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1913 Sunbeam 12/16hp Tourer Chassis no. 6400Engine no. 6174Founded by John Marston, a God-fearing Victorian industrialist who foresaw the growth in demand for private transport, Sunbeam was first associated with beautifully made, though expensive, bicycles. Although comparative latecomers to motor car manufacture, the Wolverhampton-based Sunbeam factory quickly established a fine reputation alongside Lanchester, Wolseley, Austin and Daimler at the heart of the expanding Midlands motor industry
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1957 Lotus-Climax eleven Le Mans series I Chassis no. Mk1/267 Engine no. Fwa/6964 400-7. Colin Chapman and his energetic young design team at the Lotus Engineering Company, based behind father Stan Chapman's public house, the Railway Hotel in Hornsey, north London, introduced the beautiful Lotus type XI - or Lotus eleven - competition sports car in 1956, replacing the earlier marks IX and X
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The ex-Alan Stacey, Bob King 1959 Lotus 16 Formula 2 Racing single-Seater Chassis no: 366 Engine no: Fpf 430/27 1306, there is today a very special user/collector's cachet attached to the very fastest examples of front-engined Grand Prix car technology. In present-day Australian and European Historic, and American vintage, racing the Lotus type 16 such as chassis serial '366' offered here - has repeatedly proved itself to be hyper-competitive, a front running and winning model at, for example, the Goodwood…
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The ex-Masten Gregory, Jo Bonnier, Lucien Bianchi 1961 Lotus 18 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater Chassis No: '917' Engine No: FPF430-17-1123/2 While Colin Chapman had learned much about the demands and rigours of World Championship Formula 1 racing with his front-engined Type 16 designs of 1958-59, when he decided to follow the Cooper Car Company's title-winning lead into rear-engined configuration in 1960, the Lotus marque at last achieved frontline status with its first non-Championship Formula 1 and Grand…
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The ex-Jim Clark, Richard Attwood, 1963 Formula 1 World Championship-winning history 1962 Lotus 25 Formula 1 Racing single-Seater Chassis no. R4 Engine no. Fmmv 499/6, the top drawer of sporting history's filing cabinet is open only to the absolute cream of racing car designs. Those which can be regarded as true landmarks - waypoints upon history's technical route march - are in reality very few and far between. Here we are delighted to offer this beautifully presented example of one such outstanding…
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The ex-Jim Clark 1966 Lotus 39 Tasman series Racing single-Seater Chassis no: '39 R12' Engine no: Fpf 1267 Here we are delighted to be able to offer this splendidly restored ex-Jim Clark/Team Lotus 1966 Tasman Championship car which also has profoundly important Australian racing history to its name, since it is the car subsequently owned and campaigned over several seasons by the great Australian owner/driver, Leo Geoghegan.
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The ex-Mario Andretti, Jochen Rindt, John Miles 1969 Lotus 63 Formula 1 Racing single-Seater Chassis no: '63/2' Engine no: DFV818 Here we offer one of the only two examples ever made of what was the most complex Formula 1 Lotus built during the 1960s by the World Championship-dominating Lotus team, the car combines the competitive power and torque of the epochal 3-litre Cosworth-Ford Dfv V8-cylinder racing engine with Ferguson-type four-wheel drive and what was at the time the very latest in Lotus…
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The ex-Mario Andretti, Carlos Reutemann 1978/79 Lotus 79 Formula 1 Racing single-Seater Chassis no: '79/5' - 'Ml 23' Engine no: DFV195 None could challenge Lotus's shattering form with its latest frontier-breaking type 78 ‘Wing cars' of 1977, they introduced the modern ground-effects form of aerodynamic management and control to competition car design, and were every bit as much landmark designs in motor racing history as had been the Lotus 25 monocoque of 1962.
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1928/1945 Alfa Romeo 1500cc Supercharged racing car. Chassis no.: 0111522, the Alfa Romeo 6 was the first true expression of the abiding design genius of Vittorio Jano, who had masterminded the Italian firm's meteoric rise to world-class stature in the mid-1920s. His P2 and Tipo B Monoposto Grand Prix racing designs proved virtually unbeatable at premier level in their heyday, while his family of six-cylinder sports-racing cars has passed into the annals of motoring history as the standard-setter of its…
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1938 V12 Lagonda Short Chassis Sport Saloon Chassis no. 14051 Engine no. 14114 'In making an evaluation of the better British cars, the Lagonda V12 certainly must be considered an excellent design and one that contributed to raising the state of the art - not forgetting, of course, that it probably should be considered W O Bentley's masterpiece.' - Road & Track, October 1978
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1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II Mulliner Park Ward convertible Chassis no. SVB99 Engine no. 642CS Facing increasing competition from faster rivals and with development of its ageing six-cylinder engine nearing its end, Rolls-Royce turned to V8 power as the 1960s approached. The V8 was, of course, the predominant power unit in Rolls-Royce's most important export market - the Usa - so it was only natural that the Crewe firm would study the best American designs - principally those of Chrysler and Cadillac -…
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1962 Lotus type 22 Formula Junior Monoposto Chassis no. 005 as its name so aptly suggested, Formula Junior was the main ‘Feeder' racing class for Formula 1 and other more senior forms of motor sport in the early 1960s. Lotus's first foray into this hotly contested series was with the type 18, a highly versatile mid-engined design - the Company's first - that could accommodate a wide variety of engines and saw service in both Formula 1 and Formula 2
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1952 Alta 1.5-Litre Grand Prix Supercharged Monoposto Chassis no. 010-GS4819 Engine no. 1111 ‘The name of Alta May not have the aura of Era, Maserati, Bugatti or Alfa Romeo, but nonetheless it holds an important niche in the history of British motor racing and was the result of the endeavours of one man.' - Denis Jenkinson, Motor Sport, the late Geoffrey Taylor was a small specialist manufacturer with a difference
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1967 Aston-Martin DB6 Vantage Volante soft top, chassis number ‘DB6/3660/R’, engine nnmber. ‘400/3278/Vc’
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1953 Bentley R-Type 41/2-Litre Saloon Chassis no. B582TW Engine no. B491T The policy of rationalisation begun in the late 1930s continued at Rolls-Royce after the war with the introduction of standard bodywork on the MkVI Bentley. Rolls-Royce's first post-World War II product, the latter was introduced in 1946, a year ahead of the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith which, although mechanically similar to the MkVI, was nevertheless exclusively a coachbuilt car
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1950 Bentley MkVI 41/4-Litre Saloon Chassis no. B385FV Engine no. B422F 'In a very short time, however, it was easily seen that the pressed steel Bentley bodies were as elegantly proportioned, as highly finished and as comfortably furnished as anything the traditional coachbuilders of the past had done; with the added virtues of immunity from rot and greater rigidity.'
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1951 Bentley MkVI 41/2-Litre Drophead Coupe Coachwork by Park Ward Ltd Chassis no. B14MD Engine no. B7M The policy of rationalisation begun in the late 1930s continued at Rolls-Royce after the war with the introduction of standard bodywork. In a break from the coachbuilt tradition this was made of pressed steel panels welded together. The new 'standard steel' body was available at first only on the MkVI Bentley, though customers could still opt for a coachbuilt alternative, such as the car offered here
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1958 Bentley S1/S3 Chassis no. B95DE Engine no. BD222 Conceived as replacements for the ageing Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn and Bentley R-Type, the all-new Silver Cloud and Bentley S-Type were introduced early in 1955. The duo sported sleeker bodywork on a new box-section separate chassis - Rolls-Royce eschewing unitary construction for the time being - incorporating improved brakes and suspension, the latter featuring electrically controlled damping
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1964 Bentley S3 Saloon Chassis no. B492CN Engine no. BCN246 Launched in 1962, the Bentley S3 and its Rolls-Royce equivalent, the Silver Cloud III, employed the 6. 2-litre V8 engine introduced on the Silver Cloud II/Bentley S2, though with larger carburettors, a new distributor and raised compression ratio. Facing increasing competition from faster rivals and with development of its ageing six-cylinder engine nearing its end, Rolls-Royce had turned to V8 power as the 1960s approached
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1953 Bentley R-Type 41/2-Litre Saloon Chassis no. B142WH Engine no. B71W The policy of rationalisation begun in the late 1930s continued at Rolls-Royce after the war with the introduction of standard bodywork on the MkVI Bentley. Rolls-Royce's first post-World War II product, the latter was introduced in 1946, a year ahead of the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith which, although mechanically similar to the MkVI, was nevertheless exclusively a coachbuilt car
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1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II Saloon Chassis no. Svb 297 Engine no. 398 Bs Facing increasing competition from faster rivals and with development of its ageing six-cylinder engine nearing its end, Rolls-Royce turned to V8 power as the 1960s approached. The V8 was, of course, the predominant power unit in Rolls-Royce's most important export market - the Usa - so it was only natural that the Crewe firm would study the best American designs - principally those of Chrysler and Cadillac - for inspiration
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F1962 Fiat 2300s coupe with coachwork by Carrozzeria Ghia, and a 135bhp six-cylinder, overhead-valve engine
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1979 Ford Cortina Te Rally Car ex Colin Bond, Bob Riley, John Dawson Damer, Chassis no. CG8A1L4836CEngine no. N800142P Ford first applied the 'Cortina' name to its medium-sized family saloon in 1962, sticking with the tried and tested mechanical formula of front engine/rear wheel drive, McPherson Strut independent front suspension and live rear axle from the MkI to the MkV. The Cortina's conventional specification did it no harm whatsoever, the model dominating its market sector for 20 years
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