NEC displays dish up a bargain
Yesterday I went up to the Bonhams sale at Harrogate on a mission to buy a Toyota Land Cruiser (below) for Toyota GB’s historic fleet, the idea being that I would do a story on it.
It was interesting because it was originally supplied to Rover for evaluation in 1963 and is probably the oldest in the UK, unused since 1970. It was also mint and, to my surprise, went way over the budget Scott Brownlee at Toyota had given me to buy it.
The star of the sale was a fairly horrible Bentley special but I was much more taken with the Allard P1 barn-find (below) that a mate of mine was keen on – and which could probably have been put back on the road for a small outlay – so I hung around until it went through... but again it bust the £7000 budget my friend had allowed for bidding on it.
It was a sale otherwise dominated by Jaguars of nearly all types including lots of clean SIII XJ’s with pub landlord ‘leapers’ on their bonnets.
On the way back I stopped off in Uttoxeter to look at an automatic Lamborghini Espada (Jimmy Savile had one). More, hopefully, on this soon....