Simister’s smart buys

FANCY A PUNT? ‘Online auctions – just too easy!’ ...

MANOR PARK CLASSICS, RUNCORN. 19 JULY

SWVA, POOLE. 31 JULY

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s

We Brits like used cars. More than 7.6 million were sold last year, outstripping new ones by four to one. The top 10 sellers form a fail-safe selection that ticks most of the important boxes, notably

HISTORICS, WINDSORVIEW LAKES. 19 JULY