Violet vantage

H&H, MILLBROOK. 3 DECEMBER

A superb Triumph Roadster result I must say ...

HISTORICS, MERCEDES-BENZ WORLD. 29 NOVEMBER

Year of manufacture 1937 Recorded mileage 23,737 Asking price £250,000 Vendor Graeme Hunt, Battersea, London; 020 7937 8487; graemehunt.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price £1100 (chassis, 1935) Max power 114bhp

£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’ll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: andy fr anklin WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN’T we? You get home a

Jaguars have come into and gone from the Buckley fleet over the past 15 or 20 years, but I have not always reported on them, perhaps because they never felt as if they were going to be firm fixtures.