As I flew over the east coast of England on Monday morning, on the way back from Abu Dhabi/Dubai via Frankfurt, I was looking for the mouth of the Crouch river and the pretty sailing village of Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex, little imagining that nestling down there was a Facel Vega HK500 that was about to…
A left hand drive HK500 for sale and registered in the UK, or a right hand drive HK500 at auction and registered in France? That’s the rather awkward choice that awaits any Facel buyer as we approach New Year. The prices are quite robust as well. The left hand drive car is for sale at…
I am painfully aware that nothing has been posted on this site for some time. That’s not because I have lost interest in Facel Vegas, it is because by the time I get home in late November, I will have been in England just one week in the previous six. While I was at home,…
The Goodwood Revival is not only a great race meeting but it’s also a wonderful gathering of a fantastic collection of classic road cars. You will see virtually everything you could ever want to see either in the classic car park (or the ordinary car parks) or in the paddock. The expression you hear most…
Due to their elevated status in the world, it’s not rare that Facels get invited to all the best places, especially if they are in top notch condition, so I guess it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that Facels were present at a number of Concours last weekend and indeed, a Facel 11 was…
Brian Rix, the actor manager and mental health campaigner who has died aged 92, owned not one but two Facel Vegas , both of which still exist. He makes frequent appearances in Martin Buckley’s fine tome on the marque, including a couple of pictures, one of which is in the forward. He was clearly a…
As predicted, that elusive chap ‘time waster’ cropped up to cancel his £8000 bid for the rusty HK500 featured below so it’s back on the market on e-bay for a sum not far from the figure he mentioned. This has led to suspicions that it just might have been the seller who made that £8k…
The heap of old rust purporting to be an HK500 sold on e-Bay on Wednesday evening for £8000. The bidding was ticking along nicely in the final minutes when a massive £8k bid came out of nowhere – actually the bidder had already bid before – and that produced a stunned silence from everyone else…
Quite recently I derided auction houses at Retromobile for endlessly trotting out the phrase ‘matching numbers’ (for which there seems no translation) during the auction of various cars in Paris in February. The rest of the auction may have been in French – or anything else – but somebody would frequently say ‘matching numbers’ to…
The Amicale Facel Vega is a lively club with over 600 members worldwide and they are a busy lot, frequently attending classic car meetings and exhibiting their cars. However, Pierre Mallet seems to have gone the extra mile with this fine exhibition of all things Facel in a Hommage to Jean Daninos at the…
Facel Vega Car Club 