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…
First of all, deepest apologies for nothing appearing on this site for several weeks. You may know that my day job is in Formula One and we’ve just had a run of three double headers – six races – in eight weeks. That eight weeks also included the Goodwood Festival of Speed at which I…
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…
On Tuesday afternoon, this only has about 24 hours to run on e-Bay UK but that’s probably just as well because it doesn’t leave a fanciful purchaser time to think about the possibilities, just enough time to say NO. As the seller mentions, it is a major restoration project. I’m reproducing his words below…
