The Bonhams sale at the Goodwood Revival 2026 produced a £370,800 top result post-auction, thanks to a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 Series 3. The sale was at times a challenging one; of the deals completed on the day (September 19), a 1936 Aston Martin 2-Litre Speed Model Competition Two-Seater finished on top at £345,000. It led a varied selection of competition, sporting and collector cars; a 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS followed at £310,500, while a Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM racer and a modified 1971 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2 came next at £253,000 apiece.
The figures beneath those headline results painted a more mixed picture. Several of the higher-value cars changed hands below their pre-sale estimates once buyer’s premium was stripped from the published totals, while other lots attracted bidding comfortably beyond expectations. Here are some of the key results.
The highest-priced car from the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale was this matching-numbers DB4 Series 3, chassis DB4/718/R, which had an unusual first owner in Castrol Limited. Delivered through C Williams on July 27, 1961, it was originally finished in Snow Shadow Grey with dark blue Connolly leather and equipped with a heated rear window, Marchal foglamps and Motorola radio. Its first registration, 7727 JW, referred to Castrol director John Windridge, with the purchase following a sponsorship agreement between the oil company and Aston Martin.
Factory maintenance records continued into 1970, after which the DB4 passed through several owners before being exported to the US and eventually disappearing from view. It resurfaced in California in 2014 as a restoration project and was acquired by Fiskens, which sold it to the vendor. A comprehensive restoration by Aston Martin specialist Trinity Engineering began in 2018, with more than £300,000 subsequently spent returning the car to its original specification, save for the addition of overdrive. Its original colour combination was reinstated and details extended as far as fitting the correct radiator blind. Initially recorded as unsold during the Revival auction, the DB4 subsequently changed hands for £370,800 against a £350,000 to £400,000 estimate.
One of only 15 Aston Martin 2-Litre Speed Models built, this 1936 example, DLB 538, carried significant period competition history. Originally constructed as a 2/4-seater, it was bought after around 12,000 miles by racing driver TASO ‘Taso’ Mathieson, who replaced its original coachwork with a body from a 1½-litre Aston Martin Ulster and campaigned it in Continental events during 1938.
Its most significant race came after the war, when Jack Fairman and Richard Stallebrass entered it in the 1948 Spa 24 Hours. Fairman completed the opening stint in heavy rain before handing over to Stallebrass, who crashed shortly after rejoining the race and was fatally injured. The Aston was subsequently rebuilt and went on to compete regularly through the 1950s and into the following decade.
Pink Floyd drummer and noted collector Nick Mason acquired the car in 1978 and commissioned Morntane Engineering to restore it, including the fitment of an Ulster-style body. The work was eventually completed after the business became Ecurie Bertelli, and the car changed hands again before being bought by the vendor in 1992. It has since been used extensively in hill climbs, sprints and other historic events, with more recent work including a replacement cylinder head, magneto overhaul and modifications to accommodate modern unleaded fuel. Despite its rarity and extensive competition provenance, the Aston sold for £345,000 against a £500,000 to £600,000 estimate.
Third among the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale’s highest-priced cars was this right-hand-drive 1973 Dino 246 GTS, chassis 06628, which had remained with the same owner for more than four decades. Supplied new in August 1973, it passed through four owners before being bought through Straight Six of Edgware by Ken Dowie in December 1984 for £15,000.
Dowie’s overseas work meant the Dino saw relatively limited use, spending long periods in professional storage. Its engine was rebuilt in 1985 after it dropped an exhaust valve, although further work was subsequently required, before Moto Technique carried out another rebuild in 1991. The same company had undertaken a cosmetic restoration around 1990, while more recent maintenance was handled by SMDG Ferrari Specialists. Despite its limited later use, the car had covered 87,743 miles by the time of the Revival sale and retained a substantial history file documenting its ownership and expenditure. The GTS sold for £310,500 against a £300,000 to £350,000 estimate.
This CLK DTM, chassis RS00-001, was the original HWA test and development car created for Mercedes-Benz’s return to the DTM in 2000. Although it never raced in period, it was used extensively by the factory squad and is understood to have been driven by several of Mercedes-Benz’s Works drivers, including Klaus Ludwig, Thomas Jäger, Marcel Fässler and Bernd Schneider. The 2000 season marked the rebirth of the DTM under substantially revised regulations, with silhouette-bodied cars using tube-frame chassis and naturally aspirated 4.0-litre engines producing around 450bhp. Mercedes-Benz entered eight CLKs and dominated the championship, with Schneider taking six victories on his way to the drivers’ title. RS00-001 therefore played a direct role in the development programme behind one of the defining cars of the revived series.
After its factory career, the CLK was sold to Brazilian businessman and racer Alcider Diniz, uncle of former Formula 1 driver Pedro Diniz, and was used at his private Autódromo Capuava circuit. Its only race came in the 2006 Mil Milhas at Interlagos, where Tony Kanaan, Raul Boesel and Pedro Lamy drove it to second place. It later returned to Europe and has since been used on track days, with recent maintenance carried out by Sporting & Historic Car Engineers in the UK. Presented in D2 livery and accompanied by spares and an additional set of wheels, the Mercedes-Benz sold for £253,000.
Sharing fourth place with the CLK DTM was this left-hand-drive Ferrari 365 GT 2+2, chassis 13937, which combined matching engine and chassis numbers with a comprehensive restoration and a series of sympathetic modifications. The car underwent a bare-metal rotisserie rebuild with ADP Classic Racing in 2021, during which its bodywork, interior and mechanical components were extensively refurbished.
Rather than return the Ferrari entirely to standard specification, the restoration incorporated several details inspired by other period Ferraris. These included 500 Superfast-style bumpers, rear lights influenced by the 365 GTC/4, 275-style side repeaters and aerodynamic headlamp covers, while Borrani competition wire wheels were fitted with Michelin XWX tyres. Inside, the car received a bespoke Alcantara headlining, matte black leather dashboard trim and a discreet Becker head unit with Bluetooth connectivity. The original 4.4-litre V12 was rebuilt by ADP using its original major components, while the five-speed manual gearbox, differential, steering, suspension and brakes were also overhauled. Its factory air-conditioning was rebuilt, too. It sold for £253,000 against an estimate of £180,000 to £240,000.
The biggest estimate-buster of the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale was this 1936 Frazer Nash-BMW 319 Type 55 Roadster, chassis 56131, which sold for £166,750 including premium against an £80,000 to £100,000 estimate. Its appeal lay in a combination of period competition history, UK provenance and a particularly unusual family connection stretching back to the 1940s.
Sold new through Archibald Scott Brown’s Glasgow dealership to actor and racing driver Elliot Playfair, the car competed at Bo’ness in 1937 and also appeared in the Highland Trial, Scottish Rally and Land’s End Trial. By around 1939 it had been acquired by brothers Paul and Jack Gibson, with surviving family photographs showing it in wartime use with blackout shutters fitted to the headlights. The trail later went cold, but decades afterwards the Gibson family managed to track the car to Germany. It was finally reacquired by the family in 2023, by which point its original Type 55 Roadster body was believed to have been replaced with another to the correct specification.
After appearing at the VSCC Prescott meeting in 2024, the engine seized on the journey home, prompting a complete rebuild by Simon Blakeney-Edwards over the winter of 2024-25 at a cost of more than £30,000. The car was subsequently used at Bicester, Boulogne and Goodwood House.
The biggest percentage fall below its lower estimate came from this 1956 Lincoln Continental MkII project, which sold for just £1725 including premium against a £10,000 to £15,000 estimate. The result equates to a hammer price of £1500, some 85 percent below the bottom of the pre-sale estimate. The Continental Mk2 had been conceived as Ford’s cost-no-object luxury flagship, with a 300bhp 6.0-litre V8 and equipment including power steering, power brakes and electrically adjustable seats. Priced at close to $10,000 when new, it was produced in comparatively small numbers, with 2550 built for 1956 and another 446 in 1957.
This no-reserve example was rather removed from that original grandeur by the time it reached Goodwood. Its late owner bought it in September 2019 specifically as a parts car, and various components had subsequently been removed. It had also spent the previous seven years in storage and was offered as a non-running project, strictly as viewed, although it retained its V5C registration document.
The highest-value no-sale at Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale was this 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Series IV Vantage Convertible, estimated at £700,000 to £900,000. One of only 70 DB4 Convertibles built, and one of 30 Series IV examples, it was also fitted with the rarer Special Series, or Vantage, engine. Chassis DB4C/1072/R was first registered on October 15, 1962 to RT Gwynn, then managing director of FW Woolworth, and remained in the same family until 2012. Its history file includes the original order form, correspondence with supplier Brooklands of Bond Street and letters from John Wyer at Aston Martin. The original purchase price was a little over £4513.
The car changed hands at the Bonhams Aston Martin Works Service sale in 2012, after which it underwent a full restoration by Pugsley & Lewis between 2012 and 2015. Work included body repairs, repainting, rechroming, gearbox and overdrive overhaul, a full interior retrim and an engine rebuild to 4.2 litres and unleaded specification. Further upgrades included a high-torque starter, Dynalite alternator, Harvey Bailey front anti-roll bar and uprated brake calipers. Bills for the work exceeded £300,000, while only around 1300 miles had been covered since restoration. It failed to sell against its £700,000 to £900,000 estimate.
This 1912 Silver Ghost, chassis 1910E, brought one of the stronger prices among the sale’s pre-war machinery. Originally supplied with Mulliners of Birmingham landaulette coachwork, it was registered O 12 and sold to Norman C Seeman before being shipped to Australia shortly afterwards.
The Rolls-Royce remained in Australia for much of its life, passing through several owners and receiving new coachwork more than once. A saloon body by Martin & King was fitted around 1925, while by the late 1950s the car had deteriorated considerably. Following its acquisition by Fred Miller Robinson in 1960, it was rebuilt with replica London-Edinburgh-style tourer coachwork and returned to the road later that year. In 1961 it took part in an Australian recreation of the 1911 London-Edinburgh Run, recording 70.6mph over a timed section, and it subsequently became a regular at Rolls-Royce Owners Club of Australia events.
Its present Roi des Belges-style body was fitted at an unknown date, and at some point the car returned to the UK. More recently, the Silver Ghost had appeared at Goodwood Revival and Members’ Meeting events, while its history file included factory build sheets and records relating to its long Australian ownership. The Rolls-Royce sold for £195,500 against a £175,000 to £225,000 estimate.
Another conspicuous under-performer was this 1936 SS Jaguar 2½-Litre Sports Saloon, which came with unusually long-term provenance. Originally owned by Benjamin Kieling, it passed in 1941 to Air Commodore Bryan Nicholas CBE, a former Works-supported MG racer and rally driver who used the car throughout World War Two while serving with Bomber Command. Nicholas commissioned marque specialist Leaping Cats to restore the SS in the early 1980s.
Following completion in 1983, Leaping Cats proprietor Graig Hinton entered it in that year’s Great American Race from California to Indiana, although a coolant leak forced its retirement. Its original engine was subsequently replaced. Nicholas later gave the car to his son Rory, and further refurbishment followed in 1992-93 and 2004.The car changed hands again through Bonhams in 2013 and remained with that owner until its return to the auction house at Goodwood. Offered without reserve, the SS Jaguar sold for just £10,350.
Celebrity provenance helped this 1965 Ford Mustang Convertible become one of the more notable estimate-beaters of the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale. Actor Ewan McGregor had owned the car since 2000, having spotted and bought it in Sydney while filming Moulin Rouge!, before bringing it back to the UK.
Powered by a 289ci V8 and equipped with an automatic transmission, the Mustang had already been converted to right-hand drive in Australia before McGregor acquired it. He subsequently used it for trips through Scotland and as far as the south of France, although periods spent in the US and later a move to Perthshire meant its use diminished. By the time of the sale it had covered only around 2000 miles since 2015.
What began as work to rectify spongy brakes ultimately developed into an extensive restoration. The engine was rebuilt and rebored with an uprated camshaft, while a long-range differential and four-speed automatic transmission were fitted to improve its suitability for long-distance touring. The car emerged finished in Wimbledon White with a blue interior, with invoices documenting the work included in its history file. The Mustang sold for £52,900 against a £30,000 to £40,000 estimate.
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