A Cure for Freyja - MotoGP Fundraising Timed Online Auction Wednesday 2nd August - Wednesday 16th August
Shannons and the superstars of MotoGP are joining forces to help a five-year old Sydney girl with a very rare and, to date incurable, a form of malignant cancer.
In January this year, Freyja's single mother of three children received the news that her five-year old daughter Freyja had a rare, aggressive and incurable illness.
Patients with the disease typically do not live beyond 12 months following diagnosis, setting the clock ticking to find a treatment or cure.
The MotoGP community heard of Freyja’s plight and has donated 102 rare and personal items to a campaign to send Freyja to Germany, which is the focus of a worldwide trial to find a cure for the disease.
Items for auction include signed leathers, helmets, boots, gloves, knee-sliders and caps – most from the 2017 season.
Meanwhile, signed paintings of Rossi, Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo will open their bidding at $250.
Shannons, as Australia’s leading enthusiasts’ auction house, was asked to help and has set up a dedicated website for the one-off, worldwide event, donating its resources and time for the Timed Online Auction that will be held from August 2-16. All funds raised will go to the ‘A Cure for Freyja’.
The Cure for Freyja MotoGP Fundraising Auction is a Timed Online Auction allowing you to place bids online, in real time.
Online bidding is open from 7 pm, AEST on Wednesday, August 2, 2017, and closes at 7 pm AEST on August 16, 2017. Bidding closure will be staggered to allow bidders adequate time to bid on multiple lots, view closure times here.
To participate as a bidder, you must first register as a new online bidder on the website. Existing online bidders will need to re-register for this one off fundraising auction. Once approved, you will be able to log in, view a catalogue of the auction and place bids. Registration for online bidding closes 6 hours prior to the designated auction closure date.
NEXT AUCTION THE SALON PRIVÉ SALE - 2nd September 2017 Blenheim Palace
THE SILVERSTONE CLASSIC SALES THE RESULTS
At the weekend we returned to our spiritual home at Silverstone circuit for our biggest sale of the year at the Silverstone Classic!
After three action packed days of auctions and some truly exceptional cars headlining the sales, we are delighted to report the post-auction results with a sales rate of 71% with total sales of £5.5 million.
We would like to thank all our bidders and vendors, as well as everyone who was with us on the day, for making this such a memorable and special event.
One of Europe's most exciting events, Classic Days at Schloss Dyck, returns this year with a spectacular Coys auction on Saturday 5th August.
Racing and demonstrating on the country roads of rural Germany, some of Europe's most exclusive classic historic cars will be on display in the stunning grounds of the 17th century German castle from the 4th to the 6th August.
For full details and lot list, please see www.coys.co.uk
There was the usual good turnout at Brightwells on Thursday 22nd June, a year almost to the day of the first Modern Classic. Much has been learnt since this inaugural sale, and this shows in how slick the sale now runs and the positive feedback received. Almost 70% of the 77 vehicles on offer were successfully hammered away to give a sale total of just under £417,000.
Top honours of the day went to the last of the breed, an air-cooled Porsche 993 generation 911 Turbo fetching £16k above bottom estimate to finish on £83,600. Speaking of Porsche, the brand was well represented, with a 15,200 mile 1 owner ’13 plate Cayman hitting £29,150 on the hammer and the wonderful blue 2007 Boxster 3.4 S making £17,600 post sale after attracting a flurry of interest.
It’s not just the high roller cars that attracted all the interest. We aim to offer a broad, diverse range of quality cars and one that also attracted a surprising amount of calls and interest was the 51,000-mile Volvo C70 convertible, which was offered at No Reserve, making a solid £1,980 on the hammer.
A rather smart and low mileage late model Bentley Brooklands attracted much interest with numerous commission bids battling it out with bidders in the room to make a healthy £11,880. A brace of BMW M-power cars did well considering these were almost unwanted models a few years ago when fuel was at £1.45/litre, showing that this classic, naturally aspirated “old-school” M-power brutes are gaining appeal and market prowess with canny investors, when various other Modern Classics in this price range have seemingly levelled off or even experienced a modest dip in recent months.
A pleasant surprise in this sale was the appearance of a cool old Nissan Z-car, the 1984 300ZX 3.0 Targa top, which made a pleasing £4,840, almost double what the vendor expected, showing that the recent market approval and hunger for retro-Japanese cars is continuing its renaissance.
Some of the cars are still being sold as this report goes to press, the audience perhaps forgetting that it’s not just about the results achieved under the hammer on the day, but some people simply cannot make the sale day, therefore others tend to sell hours and days after the sale, further improving the healthy sale conversion rate.
To illustrate the point, the very stealthy black Saab 9000 Aero by Abbott Racing sold a couple of days after the sale for a decent £4,400 plus commission, along with the very British Aston Martin DB7 Vantage Volante which made £24,750 despite being recorded as a cat-D write off some years ago. Healthy interest remains in the Alpina B3 S and we expect to conclude another sale there too.
The prices achieved include buyer’s premium.
To view the results of the June sale in full, please visit www.brightwells.com and click on ‘Leominster Modern Classics’ or phone 01568 611122.
Brightwells’ next Leominster Modern Classics sale is on 17th August 2017 and entries are now being invited with free valuations available by emailing classiccars@brightwells.com. The closing date is Monday 28th July, so please do not leave it until the last minute or your entry may have to be deferred until our October sale.
