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This Ford Escort RS2000 garage find was one of two wonderfully dusty old Fords that immediately caught our attention at Silverstone this weekend. Yesterday, while wandering around the Classic Car Auctions sale at CarFest, we found it sitting alongside an equally dusty 1986 Ford Capri 2.8 Injection. Neither looked as though somebody had spent Friday […]
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This dusty Ford Capri garage find certainly stood out amongst the polished classics at Silverstone this weekend. We spotted the 1986 Capri yesterday while wandering around the Classic Car Auctions sale at CarFest. There it sat, still wearing the dust and grime accumulated during years tucked away in a garage. No last-minute polish. No attempt […]
This Ford Escort RS2000 auction result is another reminder that enthusiasm for a good fast Ford shows little sign of disappearing. The white 1979 Escort RS Custom certainly made its presence known when it went under the hammer at Anglia Car Auctions. Sitting immediately in front of the rostrum, it was popping and banging away […]
This Vauxhall Viva Estate auction result is a great example of why the fall of the hammer isn’t necessarily the end of the story at a classic car auction. The 1973 Viva Estate went under the hammer at Anglia Car Auctions with an estimate of £4,500 to £5,500. Bidding didn’t reach that level. Instead, the […]
This Ford Capri 3.0 Ghia auction result certainly didn’t do anything to suggest Capri prices are slowing down. We’ve been watching Capris doing increasingly well at auction recently, but this 1980 3.0 Ghia Auto provided a particularly good example when it crossed the block at Anglia Car Auctions. The estimate was £7,000 to £9,000. By […]
This Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution auction result involved one of the more extraordinary cars we’ve watched go under the hammer recently. At first glance, you could be forgiven for seeing a particularly aggressive-looking 1990s Mitsubishi 4×4. But the Pajero Evolution is something rather more special than that. This is a genuine homologation model, built so Mitsubishi [&...
This Ford Fiesta XR2 auction result is an interesting one, not least because of what appeared on the paperwork. The 1984 XR2 went under the hammer at Anglia Car Auctions with its registration history showing just one registered keeper from new. For an early Mk2 XR2 that’s now more than 40 years old, that’s quite [&...
Some cars make perfect sense to buy. Others require a little more explaining. This 1992 Peugeot 205 XRAD probably falls into the second category. We collected it today, and the list of things wrong with it is already considerably longer than the list of things right with it. But it’s a surviving Peugeot 205 commercial, […]
This VW Type 3 Squareback auction result left us wondering whether somebody had just bagged themselves a rather interesting old Volkswagen. The 1972 Squareback went under the hammer at Anglia Car Auctions with a £4,000-£6,000 estimate. The bidding ticked along, but eventually everybody stopped. And they stopped before reaching the bottom of the guide. So […]
This Ford Escort 1600 Sport auction result gave us one of the most entertaining bidding battles we’ve filmed for a while. Before the 1979 Mk2 Escort went under the hammer at Anglia Car Auctions, we took a closer look at the car and asked UK Barn Finds followers to predict what it would sell for. […]