As you know, I usually take Classic & Sport Car each month, and check out the mentions of Facel Vegas in that magazine. Sometimes there’s very little, other times a little more. It has a curious habit of publishing a magazine called the April edition at the start of March – I’m sure there’s good…
ns 1959 Facel Vega HK 500 Lot No.: 348, up for auction, at Silverstone auctions at the NEC on March 6, 2016 Registration: not registered at the moment. It was 4PPF but this is now on a Mercedes Sprinter Chassis Number: HK1 BN2 Engine Number: TY7-1124-1 Number of cylinders: 8…
I got an e-mail recently from Charles-Henry Couvrat, the Amicale Facel Vega’s internet man who tracks down every Facel that appears on the worldwide web. Nothing, but nothing, escapes his eagle eyes. (I went to a test at Goodwood last August in the Facel 11 and within a couple of days there was a pic…
Artcurial’s marathon auction on the Friday of Retromobile saw the prototype Facel sell for €420k. This was halfway up the estimate – which was pretty broad at €350-550,000 – but Artcurial’s prices were strong, particularly in comparison to Bonham’s the day before. However, what you had to endure first of all was a long afternoon…
To my considerable surprise, my wife and I spent yesterday evening watching RM/Sotheby’s auction from Paris on my laptop, huddled around the kitchen table. This was the first of the three auctions taking place during Retromobile, each one offering at least one Facel Vega. That, then, was my reasoning for watching the auction, to see…
In the most recent Son Excellence, the French Facel Vega club’s extremely professional magazine, they write that 2015 has been a record-breaking year. ‘Never, since the founding of the Amicale in 1975, have we registered so many new members,’ going on to say that 68 new members joined in 2015, making a total of over…
It’s that time of the year again, Retromobile, when some of the big auction houses hold major sales to coincide with France’s major classic car show and as usual, there’s a fair smattering of Facel Vegas for sale in amongst a fabulous array of cars. I don’t want to make this site one that just…
This is a loaded question, principally because the reader may not have a Facel, and secondly because I did drive my Facel 11 today! Driving the car is no big deal on New Years Day, but it’s part of a tradition of New Year/Hogmany involving something called First Footing which means being the first person…
The former Facel 11 demonstrator, chassis number HK2 A114, sold for £50,000 plus £7,500 buyer’s premium at Hendon on December 10. This was in spite of a reserve of £60-70,000, but it still sold. As you will see in the description below, the car needed quite a lot of work, in fact a full restoration…
I wasn’t actually going to post anything for a little while, but I’m back in the UK and leafing through Classic and Sports Car I found a French company selling windscreens and using an HK500 as their chosen marque to illustrate their wares. The company is basically part of the Europarts empire but I think…
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