Three Big Facels for Sale

Three prestigious Facels are coming up for sale in the next few days, including a right hand drive Facel 11. However, first of all are two left hand drive cars in the very tasty RM Sotheby’s sale at Le Castellet or Circuit Paul Ricard in the south of France.  This pair of Facels belong to…

For sale and sold

There’s a lot of action in the Facel market at the moment. Two recent right hand drive Facel 11s have come up for sale with differing results, and there’s more for sale in the coming months or so – including a left hand drive HK500 this weekend, October 2, here in the UK.  It is…

Barn find coming up for auction in France

My apologies for the late news that Facel 11 chassis number A158 is being sold in Rouen this coming weekend, September 19. It is a right hand drive car and might possibly the last ‘barn find’ Facel 11 to come up for sale – except there is another in France, but currently not for sale.…

Facel 11 A172 for sale, now restored

You may remember that Facel 11 chassis number A172 came up for sale about two years ago. It was in a pretty poor state but was bought for £141k against an estimate of £135-£165,000.  Well, now it’s up for sale again, but now restored in its original colour scheme of Dover grey with red interior.…

Presswatch: Facel 11 in Octane, plus HK500 for sale

You may not have very much time left to buy the latest – October – edition of Octane magazine, but it does contain an excellent seven page feature on Steve Groves’s Facel 11 by editor James Elliott. There are some great pictures and complimentary words and it’s great publicity for the Facel marque, something that…

Facel news, past, present and future

Past(with thanks to Hegarty) Everyone loves a winner, and Facel Vega owners were delighted to learn that fellow Facel owner Tom Reah won the Lost Marques class at the recent London Concours at the Honourable Artillery Company’s grounds in the City of London. Tom’s left hand drive HK500 beat a couple of Talbots, a Jowett…

Stirling Moss – a full appreciation

Sir Stirling Moss –  former Facel Vega Car Club president Sir Stirling Moss, former president of the Facel Vega Car Club – died on Easter Sunday this year. Here is an appreciation of his career, written a couple of years ago when we were able to visit him in his Mayfair home, before he became…

More Facels for sale

  The selling season, it seems, doesn’t end with Retromobile earlier in February because a large number of Facels are coming up for sale in France, and an important right hand drive HK500 is being sold in the UK. HK-1 BJ4 is coming up at Ascot Racecourse on March 7, being sold by Historics Auctioneers.…

2020 Retrombile report

Better late than never; here’s a report of the Facel Vega involvement in the Retromobile exhibition in Paris a couple of weekends ago. There were 15 Facels there in total: three cars at regular auctions, four at the special auction, seven on exhibitor stands and one on the Amicale Facel Vega stand. Models included FV2,…

Cars for sale at 2020 Retromobile

It’s that time of year again, when you can buy virtually any Facel Vega you desire. That’s because we’re approaching Retromobile, the classic car show in Paris in the first weekend of February, and the attendant auctions that go with it. This year there is great variety and rarity in that the one car you…