A 1962 Marcos GT Gullwing sold for £11,872 – double its pre-sale estimate – at H&H’s Imperial War Museum sale at Duxford.
One of only 13 cars built and thought to be the final one manufactured, the Goodwood Revival-eligible car prompted a flurry of bidding at the 23 October auction.
This despite needing “a fair degree of recommissioning” including a replacement gearbox and electrics, interior trim and the rebuilding of its dismantled and incomplete Ford 109E engine.
The car used the same running gear as the Xylon (named after the Greek word for wood), a machine that was known in competition to be light and nimble, especially in the hands of drivers such as Jackie Stewart and Jackie Oliver.
Top-selling four-wheeler was a 1961 Bentley S2 Continental HJ Mulliner two-door saloon. It sparked an international bidding frenzy, selling to a European collector for £192,000.
