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Brightwells auction - Steve kay - 11-08-2020
. My limited computerskills don't allow me to put onto the forum a couple of the cars in the catalogue for Brightwells on line auction, ending on Thursday. Sadly, the usual suspects cannot gather at
Leominster for detailed inspection and a very great deal of talking, but there has been no reference so far on the forum. Lot 28 is a Gordon England claiming a detailed ancestry, and lot 29 a radical looking single seater already attracting vigorous bidding.
RE: Brightwells auction - Mike Costigan - 11-08-2020
https://www.brightwellslive.com/lot/details/485336
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RE: Brightwells auction - Martin Prior - 11-08-2020
I await the result of Lot 32 with interest.
A Rod Yates bodied "1930 Ulster Replica" on a LWB, low frame Ruby chassis with a '31 engine, hydraulic brakes and a V5 from a 1930 saloon???
To quote the catalogue: "will provide huge fun in VSCC competition". I'm sure that it will, when the scrutineers get to it!
RE: Brightwells auction - Ivor Hawkins - 11-08-2020
Is it my eyesight or are the front wings on the GE Cup Replica a very strange shape?
RE: Brightwells auction - Charles P - 11-08-2020
(11-08-2020, 03:57 PM)Martin Prior Wrote: I await the result of Lot 32 with interest.
A Rod Yates bodied "1930 Ulster Replica" on a LWB, low frame Ruby chassis with a '31 engine, hydraulic brakes and a V5 from a 1930 saloon???
To quote the catalogue: "will provide huge fun in VSCC competition". I'm sure that it will, when the scrutineers get to it!
Price it as a PVT special with no V5, but probably capable of getting an age related number.
c
RE: Brightwells auction - JohnD - 11-08-2020
(11-08-2020, 04:09 PM)Ivor Hawkins Wrote: Is it my eyesight or are the front wings on the GE Cup Replica a very strange shape?
I would say they are sitting to high
RE: Brightwells auction - Steve Jones - 11-08-2020
The Gordon England is well known and has good provenance. I don't know the Single Seater at all but it does say it's a recent build. They can be notoriously difficult to commission ready for competition but I doubt you could build one for what it'll go for so, perhaps, a good staring point for someone who's keen to have one. The LWB 'Ulster' is OK for the VSCC in principle but as a PVT Special as Charles says. Similar cars in a similar situation have been able to obtain an age related V5 in recent times.
Steve
RE: Brightwells auction - Michael D - 12-08-2020
that single seater sports an ALTA cylinder head which - I thought - was a post war modification.. is that too 'a triviality the VSCC would take issue with' or not??
RE: Brightwells auction - Charles P - 12-08-2020
(12-08-2020, 11:09 PM)Michael D Wrote: that single seater sports an ALTA cylinder head which - I thought - was a post war modification.. is that too 'a triviality the VSCC would take issue with' or not??
The Alta head with the inclined plugs is a vintage head, the plug position having been a necessity when the head was used on motorcycles
Charles
RE: Brightwells auction - Steve kay - 13-08-2020
Results show the Gordon England to have gone for £15, 843, such an odd figure that one might assume the bid was in another currency. The single seater fetched £16, 200, whilst the Ulsteroid got up to £13,100. All before premium.