These stunning classics will be sold at the £30m Goodwood Revival auction

Classics you can buy at the UK's biggest historic event

Where better to sell a gleaming classic car than at the Goodwood Revival?

See, once attendees of the annual historic motorsport extravaganza have seen priceless vintage machines tearing up the Tarmac of the storied Sussex circuit, they might well want to splash some cash on a classic of their own.

All of which probably explains why auction house Bonhams hosts a huge sale to coincide with the event – a sale that, if every lot hits its lower estimate, could make £30m or more.

What can bidders expect to see on the auction block this Saturday, 8 September? Here are the 30 biggest lots – including several million-pound machines.

1990 Jaguar XJR-11 Group C Prototype

Estimate: £1.2m – 1.5m

How better to kick off an auction at an historic motorsport event than with a race-winning Group C prototype worth more than a million pounds?

This XJR-11 – chassis 490, the last to be built – was raced by Martin Brundle, Alain Ferté and Jan Lammers in the Group C World Championship in the early ’90s, claiming a win at Silverstone.

It goes to auction fully restored and wearing its iconic Silk Cut livery.

1924 Bugatti Type 13 Brescia Sports

Estimate: £380,000 – 400,000

From a ’90s prototype to a truly beautiful 1920s racer, this bonny Bugatti was finished in 1924 and shipped new to Switzerland as a racing car.

Records of its early history are patchy but by the early ’30s it ended up in Norway, where it was abandoned in a garden for three decades.

Mercifully, it was rescued and restored to factory specification with as many original parts as possible, before running in several rallies across Europe.

1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Coupe

Estimate: £700,000 – 850,000

Continuing the European flavour at Goodwood is this fabulous 300SL coupe, a late-’50s example of the German cruiser that was delivered new to the USA.

Famed for being the fastest production car of its era, the 300SL carried a fuel-injected 3-litre motor good for 215bhp and 140mph.

Highly original, matching numbers and subject to an older restoration, this particular example is reported to be a very drivable drop-top number.

1989 Aston Martin V8 Vantage

Estimate: £300,000 – 400,000

Fittingly for a celebration of vintage motoring hosted in England, several Aston Martin machines are set to go under the hammer at the Bonhams sale – including this late-’80s V8 Vantage.

Equipped with the desirable X-Pack option (which squeezed a formidable 432bhp from the 5.3-litre engine), this dashing dark-green example of the British-built muscle car goes to auction in impeccable condition after a life of careful custodianship.

1955 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV State Landaulette

Estimate: £1.1m – 2m

Sticking with the Brits, one of the top lots is this ’55 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV – set to fetch more than a million when the hammer falls on 8 September.

One of just 18 built and clothed in unique coachwork by Hooper & Co., chassis 4BP5 has a rather famous former owner: the Queen.

Stabled in the Royal Mews from ’59 to 2002, it remains a most exclusive British tourer. 

1972 Ferrari Dino 246GT

Estimate: £300,000 – 400,000

From one celebrity owner to another, this Dino’s first custodian wasn’t exactly stately: Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones took delivery of the Ferrari-bred 246GT in ’72 and used it on the band’s frequent European tours.

Following Keef’s ownership, it entered a private collection in Japan before returning to Europe, where it was bought by Liam Howlett of The Prodigy at a Monaco auction and treated to an engine overhaul – so it would suffer no nervous breakdowns.

1973 Ferrari Dino 246GT Berlinetta

Estimate: £230,000 – 260,000

Prefer your Dinos without celebrity heritage? This low-mileage 1973 example of the game-changing machine has a mere 28,000 miles on the clock and has been stabled with the same owner since 1975.

Delivered new to the UK in right-hand drive guise, it goes to auction complete with its original 2.4-litre V6 engine, good for 195bhp.

2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta

Estimate: £5m – 6.5m

Of course, if you’d rather take home a more modern Prancing Horse from the Bonhams sale, you could bid on this 2017 example of the Italian marque’s 963hp hybrid hypercar in targa-top form – reportedly worth upwards of £5m.

Don’t need the wind in your hair? A hard-top example from 2015 is also up for grabs, with a bargain lower estimate of, um, £2.3m.

2012 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

Estimate: £1.4m – 1.9m

Want something modern that’s not a Ferrari? Why, here’s an immaculate Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport with 1200bhp at its disposal and just 1500 miles on the clock – yours for a mere £1.4m.

Not interested? There’s also a neat 2009 Lamborghini Murciélago on offer, with roughly half the horsepower at a sixth of the price.

1956 Fiat-Bartoletti Tipo 642 Transporter

Estimate: £500,000 – 600,000

What happens if you get carried away with your purchases at the Bonhams sale? This mid-’50s race car transporter – formerly used by the Maserati works team – wouldn’t be a bad bet to get your new classics home.

The storied machine – capable of carrying three cars, seven crew and a bank of spares – reportedly transported Fangio’s World Championship-winning car in ’57, did service for the British Ford GT team of Alan Mann racing and featured in Steve McQueen’s film Le Mans.

Later abandoned and left dilapidated, it was stunningly restored ahead of the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

1962 Tojeiro EE-Ford Endurance Racing Coupe

Estimate: £400,000 – 500,000

And if you want a racer for your new truck, this 1962 number might just fit the bill. 

The result of a joint effort by Scottish team Ecurie Ecosse and designer John Tojeiro to produce a machine for Le Mans in the ’60s, just two were built – including chassis TAD164, which served as backup coupé to the main car at the 1962 event, before going racing itself and crashing heavily in ’66. 

It wasn’t until the ’90s that it was comprehensively rebuilt and restored by specialists Crosthwaite & Gardiner, leaving it in perfect condition today.

1961 Jaguar E-type Series 1 3.8-litre Lightweight Replica

Estimate: £250,000 – 300,000

Of course, the Tojeiro isn’t the only racing machine on offer at the Bonhams auction.

This British racing green recreation from JD Classics of Jaguar’s rare and ultra-desirable Lightweight competition machine (just 12 of which were created) meets FIA competition specification and has raced at a host of historic events over the last several years.

1969 Lynx-Jaguar XK SS 4.2-litre Recreation

Estimate: £300,000 – 350,000

Jaguars, it seems, are ripe for reincarnation: this 2015 machine is one of just 10 built by specialist Lynx to match the original specification of the XKSS.

Unlike an authentic XKSS – an ultra-rare roadgoing variant of the all-conquering D-type – this one is derived from a Series 2 E-type from 1969 and is driven by a 270bhp 4.2-litre motor, though its bespoke bodywork was built in the same way as the original.

1964 Shelby Cobra Competition

Estimate: £1.2m – 1.5m

This show-stopping Shelby machine, on the other hand, is all-original – with a price tag to match.

One of just 32 Cobras built for competition, chassis CSX 2430 was prepared in full racing spec for gentleman racer Tom Payne.

Campaigned extensively in period, the 289cu in machine was subsequently restored by specialist Bill Murray and displayed at the Shelby American Collection for the better part of 25 years.

1968-69 Ford P68 F3L Group 6

Estimate: £500,000 – 700,000

Another American thoroughbred, this blisteringly quick late-’60s racer is one of three that competed in period for the Alan Mann Racing Team, bedecked in glorious red-and-gold livery.

Built absurdly low to the ground in the name of aerodynamics, the prototype Ford machine deployed a combination of advanced aerodynamics and a Formula 1-derived 3-litre V8 engine to deliver terrifying pace – enough to out-qualify a Ford GT40 at Spa by 4 seconds.

1934 Aston Martin 1.5-litre MkII

Estimate: £230,000 – 260,000

Back to Blighty and this second-generation short-chassis 1½-Litre machine is the earliest of several Aston Martin machines at the sale.

A matching-numbers example of the rare and attractive two-seater, it’s been stabled in Holland for the last couple of decades and enjoyed a full engine rebuild in 2012.

1948 Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports

Estimate: £220,000 – 280,000

Some 14 years later, Aston Martin launched its first post-war car, signalling the start of David Brown’s pivotal period at the helm of the iconic marque.

This 1948 example – chassis 7 of just 15 built – was first owned by Brown himself and used as an experimental car, eventually ending up in a private collection in Japan from which it’s offered for sale at Goodwood.

1955 Aston Martin DB2/4

Estimate: £230,000 – 260,000

As if to continue that story, this DB2/4 from ’55 is also set to go under the hammer – and it’s a fine illustration of the direction David Brown took the marque: its theoretical capacity of four people made it appealing to an untapped market of family buyers.

Wearing coachwork by Milliners of Birmingham, chassis LML/1047 is one of roughly 100 built in drophead coupé guise and is being sold with a comprehensive folio of documentation.

1960 Aston Martin DB4

Estimate: £600,000 – 700,000

And then we have the game-changer: wearing that now-ubiquitous grille, the Touring-bodied DB4 set the tone for Aston Martin machines for years to come when it launched in 1958.

This 1960 example has been converted to DB4GT specification (just 75 were originally built), with a mere 38 miles put on the 4.7-litre engine since the six-year conversion was completed by Chris Shenton Engineering. It’s reportedly even better than an original…

1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2-litre

Estimate: £650,000 – 750,000

Last of the Astons up for grabs at the Goodwood Revival auction is – what else? – a DB5. 

Finished in ’64, this pristine example of arguably the most famous machine built by the British marque (thanks in no small part thanks to the Bond franchise) was originally sold in the UK, yet remarkably ended up in Japan in entirely original condition.

Found and returned to the UK, its total restoration was completed in 2014, leaving it as good as (or better than) new.

1952 Bentley R-Type Continental Sports Saloon

Estimate: £700,000 – 800,000

You know André Embiricos? No? Well, he was a Greek shipping magnate and part-time racing driver – and this used to be his Bentley.

One of just 208 R-Type Continentals built, it was delivered new to Paris in 1954 – only to be part-exchanged two years later.

Remarkably, it’s been stabled with just three owners since new and goes to auction in wonderful condition, complete with a unique horn switch added to prevent beeping in Parisian streets.

1957 Bentley S1 Continental

Estimate: £300,000 – 350,000

A second mid-century Bentley, this one is a lovely example of the British marque’s sublime high-speed cruiser – a car that could top 120mph with four passengers and luggage.

Acquired by the current owner in 1982, the Continental has enjoyed 36 years of careful maintenance, with invoices totalling £65,000 for work carried out since ’88.

1953 Jaguar XK120 SE

Estimate: £500,000 – 600,000

Launched at the London Motor Show in 1948, the XK120 offered the ideal blend of reliability, performance and comfort.

This 1953 example was delivered new to racer Mike Salmon and upgraded in period to competition spec, ahead of its entry into numerous events in the ’50s.

Initially restored in the late ’70s and carefully kept by the same owner for two decades, it received a second, comprehensive overhaul just last year.

1933 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Phantom II Continental Sedanca

Estimate: £300,000 – 400,000

A stunning ’30s speedster with quite the story, this Phantom II was delivered new to a Captain Thomas Lee Hardy, who tasked coachbuilder Barkers with clothing his new Continental.

Subsequently enjoyed by Vintage Sports-Car Club chairman Kenneth Neve, the stunning green machine has undergone various work since the turn of the millennium, totalling in excess of £200,000.

1979 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Limousine

Estimate: £400,000 – 600,000

Rolls-Royce launched the luxurious Phantom VI in 1968, with the majority bodied as limousines.

This particular example (which could fetch more than half-a-million on Saturday) was finished in 1978 as the figurehead of the marque’s demonstration fleet, equipped with an array of desirable extras – from reading lamps to electric rear seats.

1964 Lang-Cooper II Group 7 ‘Super King Cobra’

Estimate: £250,000 – 300,000

If you opt to call a racing car a ‘Super King Cobra’, it had better be one mean machine. This 1964 Group 7 racer proved exactly that.

Dreamt up by Carroll Shelby and built as a replacement Craig Lang's first ‘King Cobra’ (destroyed in a practice session), it paired a Chevrolet V8 with a John Cooper chassis and a shell penned by Pete Brock – a true Frankenstein’s monster and one that proved scarily unstable at high speed.

Lang raced it once before selling it in ’66 to a club racer who modified the suspension. Later sold again and subjected to a botched street-conversion effort, it was left forgotten and sold in ’77 for scrap – only to be saved and restored just in time for the 2006 Amelia Island Concours.

1963 Lotus Cortina MkI Competition Saloon

Estimate: £200,000 – 250,000

The Lotus name might bring to mind visions of Formula 1 racers and low-slung sports cars, but in the ’60s the British marque was commissioned by Ford to develop a Group 2 saloon car – and the plucky Lotus Cortina was the result.

One of a pair that debuted for the team, it was driven in period by several famous racers, including Jim Clark, Dan Gurney and Sir John Whitmore.

Restored in the ’90s, it was subsequently raced at the Goodwood Revival by Tiff Needell, bought by musician Chris Rea and featured in Octane magazine.

1937 SS Jaguar 100

Estimate: £400,000 – 500,000

Before Jaguar was a marque and ‘SS’ meant something else, SS Cars Limited launched the SS Jaguar 100: a high-performance sports car with a reported top speed of 100mph.

Initially equipped with a 2.7-litre engine, from late 1937 a 3.5-litre model became available and 116 would eventually be built before production ceased at the outbreak of World War Two.

This example – chassis 39007 – is one of the earliest, built in December ’37. It was campaigned briefly in period, sold in ’65 in ‘barn find’ condition, kept by the same owner until 2007 and restored over the course of four years.

1924 Bugatti Type 30 Two-seat racer

Estimate: £400,000 – 600,000

Bugatti’s first production 8-cylinder machine, some 600 of the Type 30 were built between 1922 and 1926 – but fewer than 50 remain today, which makes this 1924 example rare indeed.

Chassis 4238 enjoys something of a patchy past: it was built to race and delivered new to Paris, before going off the record and turning up in the ’50s in a French junkyard.

In 1963 it was acquired by Pierre Deliere, owner of the Musée Automobile de Provence. Deliere oversaw its restoration and remained the car’s custodian for some 50 years, until it was sold to the present owner in 2012.

1964 Ferrari 250GT Lusso Berlinetta

Estimate: £1.1m – 1.5m

What could be last but a Ferrari 250GT? Just weeks after a 250GTO at Pebble Beach became the most expensive car ever auctioned, this 1964 example of the stunning Pininfarina-designed, Scaglietti-built tourer is expected to make at least a million.

Just 350 of the beautiful coupés were made in Lusso guise, combining track-bred performance with cruising comfort.

This well-documented Lusso – chassis 5565GT – spent the last 46 years stabled with the same owner, during which time it enjoyed plenty of competitive outings, including a visit to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 1993.