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Classic Car Auctions is gearing up for a big new sale at one of northern England’s most impressive shows later this summer as it looks to expand
One of the biggest classic shows in the north of England has revealed that it is to hold a two-day auction for the first time.
The Classic &Performance Car Spectacular show, based at Tatton Park in Cheshire, has teamed up with Classic Car Auctions to run the auction on 1-2 June. The event has been running for more than 35 years, and already attracts at least 2000 classics, including displays from 90- plus clubs and an area for individual exhibitors which has in the past brought 200 vehicles together.
Sales manager Gary Dunne said: ‘It’s hugely exciting. We were looking for ways to grow the Classic Car Auctions (CCA) brand and our sister company Iconic by getting into some larger events and run some bigger sales.
‘The Practical Classics show has always been a great success at the NEC in March and is our highlight sale so when we spoke with Tatton Park last year about doing something they were very receptive and said that they’d love to have us along and could we get involved.
We said “yes” so we’re going there for two days. It’s the first and second of June and I’d love to say that we’re going to take a similar number of cars to what we take to the NEC but it's obviously only a matter of a couple of months later; certainly we’re hoping for maybe 140-pus cars there for a weekend of sales.
‘They tell us that it’s a massive show with thousands of cars and collectors that come along. It’s all about that departure and going north. We’ve been to various events in the north and I’m keen to head north of Birmingham for a change.
We’ve spoken to lots of customers who are in the north west and north east they’ve said it would be great if we could do an auction up there as well, so hopefully it’s going to be very good and they’re going to be very receptive to us.
‘We’re hoping to get a nice response to it because we’re excited to get involved. It’s a lovely venue. They do three large shows a year there and we’ll have a presence at each of them. We’re going to go along to the US-themed Stars &Stripes and the later Passion for Power show as ourselves to present to those audiences but this will be our first go. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for quite a while, to
