1925 VAUXHALL 30/98 WENSUM - Brian Classic & Co Telephone: +44 (0)1565 830 423 E-mail: sales@brianclassiccars.com

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1925 VAUXHALL 30/98 WENSUM

The Ex. E.L. Meeson, R.J. Munday, Brooklands Gold Star winning 30/98 Wensum.

This exceptional motor car, delivered new with the most desirable and breathtaking Wensum coachwork, was raced with great success at Brooklands in the hands of its first owner, E.L. Meeson, who continuously developed it over a number of years, culminating in a lap of 109.4mph at the 1927 Whitsun BARC meeting, breaking the 14 year old Vauxhall record set by the works single seater in 1913.

In 1928 the car was sold to R.J. Munday who went on to compete until 1933 with the car, continuing its development even further. The pinnacle of his acheivements was victory in the race for the Brooklands Gold Star at the Whitsun meeting in 1932 where the car completed two laps at over 114mph - the fastest laps ever acheived by a 30/98.

In 1938 the car was purchased by motoring writer Bunny Tubbs who in 1939 took the car to France to follow the Lagonda Works Team at Le Mans and where he was later staying, between Nice and Marseille, when the car dropped a valve. He left the car with a local garage to carry out repairs whilst he returned to the UK to honour a trip to Portmeirion with his Mother, confident that all the talk of war would lead to nothing. This was August 1939.... Miraculously the car survived the hostilities and Tubbs re-patriated it after the war and it was sold to one D. Richmond in 1946. The next owner was R.H. Cardew who owned the car from 1948 to 1969 when it was purchased by John Rowley who's family kept it until 2001. John Rowley was a keen Vauxhall exponent and owned several other 30/98's over many years. 

In 2001 the car was purchased by its last owner, a well known vintage car and aircraft restorer, who had been specifically looking for a Wensum bodied 30/98 as his father had owned one many years previously. At the time the car was part way through a rebuild that had been started for the Rowleys by Julian Ghosh and over the following 10 years the painstaking restoration was completed by the owner and another renowned 30/98 specialist; Arthur Archer. The result is an outstanding vintage tourer with stunning performance - during the engine rebuild the opportunity was taken to increase the capacity to around 4 1/2 litres and the motor was built with all steel internal parts.

Please call to discuss details of the car's specification and history further.

SOURCE: http://brianclassiccars.com/portfolio-item/1925-vauxhall-3098-wensum/

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1972 VAUXHALL VICTOR FE - Charterhouse Auctioneers 19th July 2015

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SUNDAY 19th JULY 2015

SHERBORNE CASTLE, DORSET,  DT9 5NR,

Telephone: 01935 817277

http://www.charterhouse-auction.com

1972 VAUXHALL VICTOR FE

A 1972 Vauxhall Victor FE, registration number USA 587L, red. Believed 31,000 miles from new, this four owner Victor ish repair sections. The interior is very clean and original with tan vinyl seats and door cards and contrasting dark brown carpets. The Victor is offered for auction with a history file containing V5, Victor owner's handbook, past MOTs, receipts, tax discs, Euro service owner's handbook, Vauxhall VX series handbook with service stamp, Pye radio/cassette manual and a sales brochure. This rare Vauxhall is now ready to be enjoyed by the next owner and is worthy of inclusion in any car collection. V5C, MOT to May 2016 according to www.howmanyleft.co.uk is one of only three registered as being on the road. During the vendors ownership he has sourced and fitted two new old stock front wings to eliminate any rust in the bodyshell, as he wasn't prepared to spoil an original car with repair sections. The interior is very clean and original with tan vinyl seats and door cards and contrasting dark brown carpets. The Victor is offered for auction with a history file containing V5, Victor owner's handbook, past MOTs, receipts, tax discs, Euro service owner's handbook, Vauxhall VX series handbook with service stamp, Pye radio/cassette manual and a sales brochure. This rare Vauxhall is now ready to be enjoyed by the next owner and is worthy of inclusion in any car collection. V5C, MOT to May 2016

   

 

 

July 19th 2015
Vintage and Classic Car Auction 
viewing time as 10am, with the auction as 1.30pm Location: Classics at the Castle, Sherborne Castle, New Rd, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5NR 

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1931 VAUXHALL T80 HURLINGHAM T80 BOAT-TAIL SPEEDSTER - HISTORICS @ BROOKLANDS

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We start a new week with another auction lot, this time from Historics of Brooklands. The vehicle is due to come under the hammer on the 29th November

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1931 VAUXHALL T80 HURLINGHAM T80 BOAT-TAIL SPEEDSTER

 

 

Alexander Wilson founded the original company in Vauxhall, London in 1857. Originally named 'Alex Wilson & Company' and then 'Vauxhall Iron Works', the company built pumps and marine engines but then, in 1903, the company built its first car, a five horsepower model steered using a tiller with two forward gears only. The art deco styled Hurlingham Roadster was first advertised in the 'Motor' magazine in October of 1929 and, with its voluptuous boat styling and aluminium body resplendent with motorboat style scuttle vents, standard bolt-on wire wheels and twin V-screens, the Hurlingham represented good value for money by the standards of the day.
Fox & Nicolls, the famous racing team of the thirties, approached Vauxhall to race the T80 Hurlingham, which, with its six cylinder, overhead valve engine, they considered the only car  to potentially rival the Lagondas in competitive racing. Foxed requested three Hurlingham chassis's from Vauxhall, modified only by the fitting of twin carburettors and the removal of the hand brake which is testament to the power and acceleration of the car.  Unfortunately, due those in Vauxhall who were authorised to make the final decision being abroad at the time, coupled with Fox's well known impatience, this never came to pass and Fox subsequently approaching Talbot. The Hurlingham was however, Fox's first choice, with reference to this in the book; 'The Invincible Talbots' by Anthony Blight.
 The art deco detailing on Hurlinghams is superb with a chrome strake on the scuttle that swooped up to form the central windscreen pillar. This line is then picked up in the cockpit by the shape of the seat-back divider that merged into a central fin down to the tail of the car. The bonnet scallops are chrome, leading back from the radiator & giving an impression of speed even whilst stationary. The rear hatch flips up easily to reveal the dickey-seat protected by its separate windscreen (not fitted but supplied). The respected classic car critic Michael Sedgwick, not known for overly enthusiastic reviews of cars, describes the HurlingahmT80 as a "good looker" in his 1990 book.
This extremely original car with its six-cylinder engine is believed to be one of only 48 examples of the Hurlingham Speedster that  were ever produced and rare having the 3.3 litre, T80 overhead valve engine. Less than ten Hurlinghams are understood to be on the road today. It is important to note that the T80 engine in the Hurlingham was the last totally UK Vauxhall designed and manufactured engine and free of GM influence. It is a understood to be a six bearing engine, whereas US engines of the period were merely three bearing.
Little is known of its early history except its first owner; Peter Reeve passed it on to Mr. Fisk as documented by a photograph within the history file. It was later sold to Mr. Pat Betts of Framlingham, Suffolk in 1989 before arriving, again in Suffolk, with the vendor in 2009.The car is thought to have been sold to its first owner by Mann Edgerton's of Ipswich and to have spent its life in Suffolk.
Invoices exist from DRL Engineering in Suffolk and Bryan Wingfield Racing for works undertaken as well as a number of old MoT test certificates and a fresh one valid for a full year and with no advisories. During a recent test drive in the fresh Suffolk sunshine, the car performed well with swift progression and the excellent braking that this model is known for. It also benefits from additional P100 spotlights fitted to the front dumb-irons and a fully functioning Smiths eight-day clock in the dashboard. Competitively priced, this extremely chic, pre-war Vauxhall has Bentley build quality combined with the reliability that makes for extremely attractive classic motoring.