Aston Martin DB4 Zagato Sanction II is likely one of the highlights of Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale

The Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale brings a starry assortment of classics to the world-famous Historic racing spectacular, with 178 autos up for grabs.

The public sale provides a extra classic-centred collection of tons than at its very profitable Quail sale, with competitors automobiles jostling for place with street equipment. It all kicks off on September 13, 2025; we’ve picked ten automobiles value keeping track of. What’s tempting a name to your monetary adviser?

The main lot on pre-sale estimate on the Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale is that this 4.7-litre 1966 AC Cobra Two-Seat Competition Hard-top Coupé. It’s a automobile with a protracted, detailed historical past – primarily based on the machine that completed the 1963 Le Mans in seventh, it was run by John Willment Automobiles Ltd’s racing division for 1964. Driven by Jack Sears and Frank Gardner at Goodwood, Oulton Park, Aintree and Silverstone, it was crashed on the Nürburgring. It then acquired a brand new chassis and was transformed to RHD. It was supplied on the market in 1966 as rebuild not full, and titled as a 1966 automobile.

It was later offered to the long run Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, former RAF pilot the Hon Angus Clydesdale, the primary of a number of British house owners. It was finally acquired by Martin Colvill within the Nineteen Seventies and rebuilt by Emilio Garcia in affiliation with Autokraft. Colvill would begin racing with it below the 13 COB numberplate, alongside enterprise associate Bobby Bell. The duo would race the automobile till 1985, finishing 102 out of 107 races. Colvill offered the automobile to Aidan Mills-Thomas, who in turns offered it to Chris O’Neill in 1999, passing it on to the present proprietor a 12 months later.

Extensive investigation of the automobile has discovered detailed proof of pre-November 1963 chassis objects – extra element might be discovered here. In December 2011 its 4.9-litre Knight Racing Services V8 engine was changed by the 4.7 440bhp Hi-Po V8 with period-correct FIA-legal T10 gearbox. It’s taken half within the Goodwood Revival and Members’ Meeting occasions, in addition to the Le Mans Classic and Modena Centro Ore. It’s estimated at between £1.5m and £2m.

This 1967 Lotus Elan S3 S/E Coupé was first delivered to Jim Clark in left-hand-drive kind, and though registered in Bermuda it was stored at his buddy and journalist Gerard ‘Jabby’ Crombac’s house in Paris. Jim drove the automobile throughout Europe to a number of Grands Prix and F2 races. Jim drove the Elan to a personal airstrip close to Orly on April 3, and handed the keys over to Jabby as he was getting a brand new Plus-2 Elan – Clark was killed at Hockenheim a couple of days later. Jabby registered the automobile in France, and continued to make use of it throughout Europe attending to races. It was then handed to Peter Windsor, and between 1966 and 1967 it was resprayed and it had its engine and gearbox rebuilt by Alan Mann Racing. In more moderen occasions it has been on show on the Jim Clark Museum, though it has seen motion at exhibits and sprints by way of Jim Clark’s cousin, Doug Niven. It’s estimated at between £200k and £250k.

This Ferrari 330 GTC, chassis 10833, was delivered to an official Ferrari supplier in Rome and offered new to De Lieto Costruzioni Generali, a Roman property contractor. It was initially completed in Argento Metallizzato with Rosso Connolly cover inside trim. In March 1971 the Ferrari was offered by De Lieto to its second proprietor, Francesco Giaquinto of Naples, and solely two months later handed to its third custodian, Sergio De Matteis in Rome.

During the mid-Nineteen Seventies the automobile was exported to the US, the place it was repainted crimson. It then had a number of US house owners and it was repainted black and fitted with Borrani wire wheels within the early Eighties. By 1987 it was repainted in metallic gray and offered to Belgian collector Edmond Perry, recognized for producing APAL buggies (Application Polyester Armé Liège). Later that very same 12 months Perry offered it to Marcel Petitjean of First Automobiles in Vendenheim, France. In March 1990 the automobile was repainted yellow by Günther Ruder GmbH of Eigersweier, Germany.

In 2022 the Petitjean Collection was put up on the market in Paris, with a non-original steering wheel and gearbox, though the engine is matching numbers. Under the current possession it’s been repainted in darkish crimson, however it’s in want of additional restoration, and it isn’t registered within the UK. It’s estimated at between £310k and £360k.

This 1951 Jaguar XK120 was first owned and raced by Robert Lawrie – a cobbler who offered boots for each British mountaineering expedition for 50 years. He’d competed at Le Mans twice earlier than, and ordered this XK120 for the 1951 race by way of Parker’s of Bolton. Alongside Ivan Waller, Lawrie introduced the automobile residence in eleventh place and sixth in school – the very best end for any XK120 at Le Mans.

Lawrie offered the automobile in round 1954-55; it was rediscovered in 1972 by John Colley as  a rolling chassis with entrance suspension, entrance physique and rear physique with all mudguards, and an engine, gearbox and bins of elements. After a 12 months of inactivity, it was offered to Bob Kerr, who restored and raced it till 1978, when he offered it to Herbert Proctor, who stored it for 20 years. It was then acquired and restored to authentic specification by Guy Broad, who took it again to Le Mans in 2002. It was restored once more in 2014. It’s estimated at between £300k and £400k.

This 1953 Cisitalia 505 DF Coupé by Ghia is believed to be certainly one of two survivors out of ten constructed. First delivered in July 1953 to Swiss racing driver Fritz Stolz, chassis 00209 modified fingers inside a 12 months, to Josef Steiner of Zürich. Over the years it handed by means of a number of Swiss house owners earlier than being acquired in 1989 by Holger Kluge of Bremen in Germany. Kluge started a restoration that didn’t go wherever, and in 2005 the automobile joined the Fendt Collection. D&D Classic Automobile Restoration in Ohio restored the automobile and it subsequently gained Best Restored Car on the Schloss Bensberg Classics Concours in Germany. It joined the seller’s assortment 2015, and has simply returned from a summer season driving tour in Italy. It’s estimated at between £140k and £180k.

This 1983 Ferrari 512BBi was first delivered to Auto Becker GmbH after which despatched to Koenig for upgraded pistons, camshaft and exhaust system, taking the engine from 340bhp to 450bhp. It’s certainly one of round 20 to 30 512BBis transformed by Koenig, and was later offered to the US by Gerardo Lombardi of Wading River, New York. It was acquired by a UK-based proprietor in 2015, and has been laid up for the previous ten years and so will want recommissioning. It’s estimated at between £100k and £150k.

This 1948 Healey Elliott Sports Saloon was Count Giovanni ‘Johnny’ Lurani’s automobile for the 1948 Mille Miglia. He shared driving duties with Guglielmo Sandri, and was main it class till the Panhard strut broke. The duo continued to complete the race, coming residence first within the Touring class and thirteenth total. Alongside Dorino Seraini, Lurani had additionally gained the Touring class within the Targa Florio. It’s been within the stewardship of the present proprietor since 1963, and was restored by Warren Kennedy of Classic Restorations for a 2016 Octane journal street check. It’s estimated at between £60k and £80k.

This 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 was initially delivered to the UK by way of Maranello Concessionaires, for RW Hart of Parkinson Hart Securities. In 1981 it handed to R Pearce after which, two years later, to Richard Wills. In December 1984 it was registered to Hon MW Aitken, the long run Lord Beaverbrook. He offered it to Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie in 1989. In 2003 it was offered to R Heselton of the Isle of Man, the place it was on show at his museum. It’s been within the fingers of the present proprietor since 2014 and has been unused for ten years whereas being stored in a climate-controlled storage. Recommissioning is required and it’s estimated at between £325k and £375k.

This 1956 Maserati A6G/54 2000GT coupé is certainly one of 21 bodied by Allemano out of 60 made. Chassis 2170 was upgraded by the manufacturing facility with  triple Weber 40 DCO3 carburettors with unfiltered trumpets, massive ventilated drum brakes all spherical and Borrani knock-on/knock-off outside-lace wire-spoked street wheels. Its first proprietor was Edward Jahns in Los Angeles, and it was later acquired by Lord Charles Brocket in 1989.

In 1997 it was offered as a restoration challenge to Jon Cruikshank of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The present proprietor acquired it from him ten years later, and it has been within the UK since 2021. It’s been in dry storage for 2 years, however has been recommissioned previous to the Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale by Steve Hart Restoration & Race Preparation. It’s estimated at between £500k and £750k.

This 1960-2000 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Sanction III Coupé is certainly one of two factory-approved examples constructed by RS Williams. Built in 2000 out of two spare our bodies from the Sanction II challenge, it shares the Sanction II specification – a 325bhp 4.2-litre engine with three Weber 50 DCOE carburettors. Chassis 424/R has been with the present proprietor since 2000, and has coated 45,000 miles since. It is estimated at between £700k and £1m.

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