Crowds Flock To ACA

A veritable flood of bidders helps a mint Rootes wagon to smash its estimate at ACA’s Norfolk season opener.

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One of the biggest crowds ACA has ever attracted got the King’s Lynn auction house’s 2017 classic sales calendar off to a flying start. With 240 cars vying for punters’ cash, it was odds-on to be a good sale, but the prices realised were proof positive of the strength of the market, whatever the age and condition of the cars.

A 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL took £110,250 and both Ferrari 308s sold along with a 456M GTA, which was away for £53,550. A lovely-condition 1971 Range Rover pulled in £33,600 but the biggest surprise of the day came from a fully restored 1965 Singer Vogue estate that made a whopping £14,700, almost double the £7980 paid for a tidy 1967 Ford Cortina MkI estate. Also performing well – despite needing plenty of finishing off – was a 1964 Morris Mini Cooper S project bought for a strong £30,450.

In the modern classics arena, a 2005 Vauxhall VX220 that had covered just 406 miles from new was considered enough of a find to make just over £25,000. Other surprises came with the projects and cars in need of attention, with a very scruffy noreserve 1965 Austin A60 geeing up punters enough to make £1050 and a 1953 Morris Minor two-door realising £550, despite needing welding and the rear screen getting re-fitted.

Despite falling temperatures, only four of the last 80 cars failed to sell under auctioneer Jim Ronan’s gavel, with proceedings wrapping up shortly after 5pm. This was a cracking start to the year, which ACA will be looking to repeat at its next sale on 8 April. 

1965 SINGER VOGUE ESTATE