A highly original Mercedes-Benz SL picked up Best of Show at the Silverstone Classic, despite the surrounding sea of E-types.
Barry Walker's immaculate 1987 420SL beat off fierce competition at the show's Concours d'Elegance on Saturday 22 July with the judges ultimately taken with the car's incredible originality, despite its 40,000miles.
C&SC, Equity Insurance and the AA were on the judging panel, along with Silverstone Classic's Simon de Mille who declared the standard: "exceptionally high, making the final decision very difficult."
The final shortlist impressed for it's diversit, too, with the earliest car Dave Sapp's 1939 Morgan Series 4/4 - fresh out of an amazing restoration of a forlorn, barn find wreck that Sapp spotted for sale by chance in a classic motorcycle magazine.
Other contenders included John Newlyn's 1971 Datsun 240Z which was the Autocar test car after the model was launched in the UK. Newlyn - who chairs the Classic Z Register - undertook a full restoration in the late 1990s to return it to A1 condition.
Also impressive was the rather fitting entry - given this year's E-type theme - of the 1962 Jaguar E-type Roadster belonging to Brian Ekin (below).
The Jaguar Driver's Club member has spent the last four years bringing his Carmen Red E-type back to factory spec - right down to the dark grey dampers ex-RAF stock, apparently), cadmium plated wishbones and triple screw jack.
