Noteworthy among the postwar sellers were a home market 1966 ‘Big Healey’ 3000 from the cache of Judas Priest lead guitarist Ken ‘KK’ Dowling and, from the same heavy metal man, a former concours-winning 1959 Jensen 541R, dispatched to new homes for £35,750 and £26,950 respectively. £31,900 bought a 1963 Alvis TD/TF21 ‘Experimental’ drophead, £27,060 a left-hand drive 1954 Austin-Healey 100/4 and £26,015 a one owner 1983 Morgan Plus 8.

An ’80s restored 1969 MGC Roadster raised £20,900 and a 1949 MG TC cost £21,120. A 1967 Lotus Elan had started life as an FHC, but had been fitted with drophead bodywork along with a new chassis in the early 1990s, found £19,360 and a 1973 TVR 1600M in period appropriate orange made £8910. Two Triumph TRs sold, a circa 1962 and body-off restored 3B left-hand driver for £18,170, and a freshly rebuilt and left to right-hand drive converted 1973 3A for £18,150. A shining 1975 Bentley T1 with FSH for the 59,000 mileage raised £13,420 and a 1932 Austin Seven RN Saloon with superb bodywork and nicely patinated original leather £9790.

Impressively upgraded to 1293S road rally spec was a 1968 Austin Mini Cooper MkI secured for £9020 and a 1984 Reliant Scimitar GTE SE6, bought for £3960, was a one-owner example. A £4730 Westfield 7 was a pre-litigation [with Caterham] model from 1988 with Ford 1.6 711M block motor, but Q-plates.

A market healthy 71% of the 93-car entry sold, the 66 classics selling for £633,400 or £9597 per car.