Bonhams Bond Street Sale December 2023
Not the bounce we were hoping for
Aston Martins presented for sale September 2023 at Gooding & Co and Bonhams
Auction report from the Bonhams Sale at the 2023 Goodwood Revival meeting
Good cars or great cars attracted buyers and although prices have a little way to go, there is a market out there for well presented Astons with a good provenance
A Good Sale for the Classic Market – Mixed Fortunes for Aston Martin
Not Quite What We Expected on the Eve of the London to Brighton Run
A review of auction action for Aston Martin Lagonda as we return to normal
Remote from Goodwood but close association
New venue for Historics in the sunshine
The joys of December in London’s West End!
From Park Lane you see queues of people trying to get into Winter Wonderland then you struggle through the crowds on Oxford Street choosing to dodge busses in the road as better alternative to bag wielding shoppers shouldering their way to Christmas.
Even with a great attendance, the Bonhams salerooms were a comparative…
A report from RM Sothebys at Olympia West on 24th October 2019
Throughout the year, people are always looking for guides to the state of the market and early February in Paris with Retromobile is normally the first. RM Sotheby’s, Bonhams and Artcurial all have inventories to sell but, if you’ve noticed, not many Astons!
So even ignoring the risks of the “gilets jaunes” its probably worth a miss for us – but then we have our own experiences…
Goodwood on a sunny September afternoon is getting more and more like the British Grand Prix as you trudge through the car parks looking at the inbound helicopters thinking wistfully – “next year!”
This is a wonderful event that seems to get bigger every year, not to mention harsher on the pocket - £18 for a programme? It is a little bit sad that as the commercial side outside the circuit…
This weekend will see the focus of the Classic Car market centred on the South Coast as Goodwood Race Circuit hosts the annual Goodwood Revival.
We will be there to report back on the auction scene but more importantly we have established a “reviver” of our own in association with Vantage Engineering in Rudgwick – A Goodwood Revival Pit Stop for…
The weathermen forecast a cloudy but dry Sunday but they didn’t warn of the wicked wind blowing up from the Channel which, like the Revival last year made the Bonhams marquee an occasionally crowded refuge. And the location inside the perimeter of the circuit offered event visitors a glimpse of what was on offer but also made the sale a noisy affair as the PA system competed manfully with the circuit…
Paris, so often the capital of style and arbiter of trends, let the classic car business down last week at Rétromobile with huge positivity, great crowds but mixed results. Sales rates were down on Arizona with 77.92%, 71.53% and 76.76% for RM, Bonhams and Artcurial respectively
First out of the blocks were RM Sothebys with what was the smallest inventory of the three big guns in town. …
As an excited schoolboy I remember climbing the Monument in London to see the view from the top and feeling giddy from the experience then last summer, I visited the Shard and looked down trying to make out that original high point in the jungle of skyscrapers that makes up modern London’s skyline.
The reverse sensation hit me on Saturday when I visited the latest addition to the London…
If there were a collective noun for auctions “an avalanche of auctions” would be an apt description of the first two weeks of September.
It is interesting to see that after the peaky 80% + sales rates of August, the market has settled into a slightly more gentle rhythm:
There will be many professionals in the market who will immediately ask “What busy market?” Well you could start at Historics at Brooklands last month. At 9.15 the persistent drizzle had turned into a downpour and with a mix of marquee and outside display, the outlook did not look good. But by 10.00 the sun was shining, the displays were busy with prospective buyers and Edward Bridger-Stille…
With news full of storms both political and meteorological, it is great to have our agenda focussed back into the business and January / February gets our marketplace moving with auctions on both sides of “The Pond”.
And the sunshine of Arizona was a great way to see in the new season - Goodings had a slight edge in that they could focus on home ground while RM Sothebys and Bonhams had…
Just a week of December gone and we are already more than half way through this year’s Winter Auction Season.
Historics didn’t wait for December to get the ball rolling and showed their usual mixture of bravery and hard graft as the market pathfinders. With no Aston Martins on parade, we followed the sale online and spoke to a number of people who attended.
Like many of the current…
Each year the events surrounding the Monterey weekend appear to have increasing impact on the prices of what has become a global commodity.
The Press Offices of Bonhams, RM Sothebys and Goodings have been churning out news of world record prices and enormous inventory revenues but while many among you will be following Maranello’s finest or the Stuttgart flying machines, at Byron International,…
Since we came on our recce of Techno Classica in 2013, everything has got a lot bigger and that includes Coys auction that takes place here on the Saturday afternoon. And for once, bigger seems to be better – certainly the auction experience. In 2013, the venue was cramped, there weren’t enough chairs and the auctioneer’s assistant was making apologies for her poor German.
How different…
Unlike their auction at the end of 2014 at the same venue, there was room to breathe at Lindley Hall last night, in fact the audience was positively sparse. Whether it was the smaller crowd or a degree of familiarity with some of the inventory, there was a definite lack of energy in the room.
After a low key start with a Lamborghini marine engine, a Beetle Convertible, a Ferrari 400 and…
The second half of the Winter Auction season promised to be an interesting mix. There were very traditional offerings - first H & H with in the surroundings of Chateau Impney and whilst Bonhams moved from the sophistication of New Bond Street to the familiarity of the RAF Museum at Hendon.
But RM, with an eye watering selection of automotive art chose the 10th floor of a New…
The classic car market has been a real roller coaster in 2014 – pessimists have continually talked of the bubble bursting. They even prompted the London Daily Telegraph to publish an article on talk of a crash – but some the optimists and all of the realists have kept the balls in the air and the market has defied the doom mongers.
The usual end of year flurry of auctions started in France…
The end of year auctions are nearly upon us and the Aston Martin market had an interesting boost at last weekend’s Classic Motor Show at the NEC. Silverstone Auctions ran sales on both the Saturday and Sunday and their Aston Martin content comprised of a range of cars that came into the realm of affordability for enthusiasts.
First out of the blocks was a 2002 Aston Martin DB7 Vantage Volante. …
There was a time when you walked toward Goodwood Circuit from the car park and came across an auction marquee standing a little forlorn with only the odd Burger Van for company – now, there is a show within a show or should it be outside a show? Through the ‘50’s car parking, the funfair, the Butlin’s skate arena and stalls from Classic and Aston Martin specialists to wooden sculptures.
On…
The Autumn auction round kicked off at Syon Park, London last night with Silverstone Auctions partnering Salon Prive. The sale attendance appeared outstanding in spite of chaotic organisation of parking and access.
The layout was much the same as when the previous incumbents, RM Auctions, ran a sale a couple of years ago - even the structures and layout were the same. Sadly Silverstone’s…
The forecasters had warned of rain. But the organisers are ready for that – Lord March was once asked how they cope with bad weather and said that they plan for rain and if it doesn’t come then it is a bonus. And the crowds had that bonus on Friday – lots of furled umbrellas together with carried coats added to the burden of carrying a Bonhams catalogue around the event – this year’s was the size…
The annual Retromobile Exhibition in Paris increases in popularity every year and those visitor numbers are not only driven by the 420 plus exhibitors but also the opportunity to attend one or more of the three auctions that happen during the week. It offers us an invaluable first take on the International Aston Martin market as the marque is always well represented and 2014 was no exception.
First…
Because they serve two masters, the Buyers and the Sellers, auctions are always presented with a quandary when building a catalogue. It is the issue of establishing estimates – they want to set them low to attract Buyers but know that if they set them too low, the Sellers will be reluctant to commit their car to the sale.
Some will overcome this by setting attractive estimates for Sellers…
The flurry of auctions at this time of year are as clear a harbinger of Winter as a seasonal flurry of snow. They can provide useful indicators of market resilience, as well as pointers to the next year’s trading. 2013 there was an added dimension provided by Bonhams – less an auction, more a market positioning statement.
But first out of the blocks were Historics. With a huge and varied…
We always look forward to the market’s energetic return after the Summer break and this year the first two weeks of September got everyone in the swing with major auctions from Bonhams and RM.
Bonhams got the ball rolling with their annual appearance at the Beaulieu Autojumble with a large and mixed inventory. There were three Astons entered in the sale and, with its inventory targeted…
The Festival of Speed at Goodwood just keeps growing – huge motor manufacturer presence both in the number represented and the scale of their display structures. And for an event that plans for rain, the arrival of a heat wave just built attendance and the enjoyment.
The marquee behind Goodwood House that houses Bonhams sale reflected the main event – huge crowds and overwhelming heat. …
2013 marked the 25th Anniversary of this fabulous celebration of classic cars. Only a few short hours of motorway driving gets you up from Calais and while the unashamedly industrial city of Essen won’t be on anyone’s holiday itinerary, the great exhibition hall has become a real point of pilgrimage for classic enthusiasts.
Huge commitment is shown by Mercedes and BMW, seamlessly…
It’s March and they’re off…..no, not the steeplechasers at Cheltenham, the auction houses round the country, Bonhams, Historics and Coys, have all been in action in the past 10 days. Bonhams are clearly hoovering up Aston entries for Works Service in May, so Aston Martins were thin on the ground, so it is a good time to look at the general classic market both in terms of the auction houses and…
This time of year sees a final flourish from the main UK auction houses and never mind the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, these sales give some straightforward indicators of the strength of the market and the outlook for the New Year.
Historics kicked off with their sale at Brooklands last Saturday 1stDecember –well attended, it delivered some very good results and strong indicators…
At the Tuesday Preview evening, there was plenty of opportunity to see why RM are at the top of their game. In one corner, the valeters had masked the chrome on a DB5 Convertible to ensure no blemishes from their efforts with the electric polishers. All the cars were displayed with thought and at the best possible advantage and interestingly the layout had changed with the catering area now facing…
After a very average sale at Historics followed by a reportedly mediocre effort by H & H at Newbury, we approached Coys annual Ascot offering with a sense that perhaps the classic car market was falling – it was a mood not helped by an apocalyptic hail storm as we arrived and the low numbers of people there an hour before the sale.
Fortunately a delay in the start of the sale, to allow a…
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