Best of british under the hammer

Buyers continue to stump up for restored minters – but barn-finds continue to surprise the experts too

During four decades of classic car enthusiasm, I’ve personally encountered only three real examples of a barn find: I recall a straw-filled barn (literally) at a Cornish farm we camped on as a child,

It’s back to the Haynes Motor Museum for Charterhouse and the South West auctioneer has plucked some fine fruit from the classic tree

It’s an all-new venue for H&H Classics as it heads to the Millbrook Proving Ground for its next sale

From full-sized American iron to British roadsters, Brightwells’ next sale has all bases covered

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti