Pete wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2023 2:28 pm
Commission was £15% Gary altogether so the final selling price was £40,250, I did bid!
I reckon that was still a great buy for a unique car that there may well turn out to be more to than was being described! (Ie it was raced in period!! Just like the PMS SD1 show car they also had built). I also reckon they’d have got more for it had they reduced the bidding increments from £3k to £1k but that’s just sour grapes on my part.
Would love to know who bought it and I do hope it’s not ripped apart and turned into a historic racer.
Same here would hate to see it spoiled.
Re-commissioned to get it running soundly again.
But not turned into a historic racer.
Pete wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2023 2:28 pm
Commission was £15% Gary altogether so the final selling price was £40,250, I did bid!
I reckon that was still a great buy for a unique car that there may well turn out to be more to than was being described! (Ie it was raced in period!! Just like the PMS SD1 show car they also had built). I also reckon they’d have got more for it had they reduced the bidding increments from £3k to £1k but that’s just sour grapes on my part.
Would love to know who bought it and I do hope it’s not ripped apart and turned into a historic racer.
Here you go, second paragraph strongly implies the car in the Patrick museum wasn’t a show replica but actually Longman’s 1978 Championship winning car. The car currently in the BMW museum then must be the 1979 car, or have they even been switched? Either way both are clearly race cars which I strongly suspected and this article proves?
Second paragraph reveals all… from the Autosport article by Tony Dron, 1979.
Leonard Crook has also confirmed (on my Facebook page) that the Patrick Museum car was indeed the 1978 British Saloon Car Championship winning car, someone got a real bargain yesterday!!
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