Quality over quantity

RM SOTHEBY’S, CLIVEDEN HOUSE. 8 JULY

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

H&H CLASSICS, MILLBROOK PROVING GROUND. 25 JUNE

BONHAMS GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED. 11 JULY

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,