The first auction at Bonhams’ new London HQ has proved an overwhelming success. 1 December Bonhams managed to auction the whole collection of classic cars from the Ecurie Ecosse collection for an amazing £8.8m. The collection contained a number of classic race cars dating back to the 1950s which were once raced as part of the Ecurie Ecosse racing team. All clad in the team’s iconic shade of blue the cars were tremendously successful back in the day, taking 68 victories in just 10 seasons.

Results

Among the cars auctioned were a Jaguar D-Type going for £2.6m, a Jaguar C-Type sold for £2.9m and a Jaguar XK120 Roadster sold for a massive £707,000. Incredibly, the team’s 1960 Commer TS3 transporter was sold to the same US buyer as the C-Type and D-type for an eye-watering £1.8m. Further cars from the collection sold were a 1959 Tojeiro-Jaguar sports race car, a Cooper T49 Monaco once campaigned by Scottish ace Sir Jackie Stewart.

The December auction also saw the sale of Ringo Starr’s Facel Vega for £337,500 and F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher’s Benetton-Cosworth Ford B194 for £617,500. Bringing the total for a day of auctioning to £16,861,630.

Via: Bonhams.