Cosseted radford bentley at auction

RM SOTHEBY’S, CLIVEDEN HOUSE. 8 JULY

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

CHARTERHOUSE, HAYNES MOTOR MUSEUM. 26 JUNE

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

ACA, KING’S LYNN. 14-15 JUNE

For its inaugural auction held during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend (p12), Broad Arrow’s 24-25 May event at the nearby Villa Erba estate produced a remarkable reflection of the show car