Bernie Ecclestone sells up

[BunkMoreland]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 25 June 2026 at 20:58

[Rumdoodle]

Fabulous. Finishing off as he began - flogging old motors.

[FourWheelDrift]

Is the green car centre of the photo the Connaught-Alta he tried to qualifying for the 1958 Silverstone GP?

[Rumdoodle]

FourWheelDrift said:

Is the green car centre of the photo the Connaught-Alta he tried to qualifying for the 1958 Silverstone GP?

Thin Wall Special, isn't it?

[2 GKC]

That’ll pay for Hartley’s new dealership. That lot always strike me as complete tools but junior seems to have a good relationship with the F1 crowd

[Bobtherallyfan]

Guess he had to find a bit of small change to pay his tax bill.

[R6tty]

Wasn't he a bank robber?

[swisstoni]

He must be 150 by now surely?

[richhead]

Rumdoodle said:

Fabulous. Finishing off as he began - flogging old motors.

Very good

[Not Ideal]

2 GKC said:

That’ll pay for Hartley’s new dealership. That lot always strike me as complete tools but junior seems to have a good relationship with the F1 crowd

As I understand it Bernie has always been underwriter of Jnr's business. i.e. Bernie fronts the cash for buying the stock and takes x of the profits.

[LotusOmega375D]

Why so little written about the two pre-war Silver Arrows? I think W125 Mercedes and C-Type Auto Union. Surely they must be the most valuable cars in the collection, or are they replicas?

[350Matt]

Bernie will live forever

Satan is too afraid to come and claim him

[Rumdoodle]

LotusOmega375D said:

Why so little written about the two pre-war Silver Arrows? I think W125 Mercedes and C-Type Auto Union. Surely they must be the most valuable cars in the collection, or are they replicas?

Are they the Wheatcroft cars? In which case, the Auto Union may be the one Wheatcroft had built, but the Merc would be genuine, I think.

[Bonefish Blues]

350Matt said:

Bernie will live forever

Satan is too afraid to come and claim him

He's got dirt on the devil too, I guess.

[rallycross]

Some kind of tax avoidance manoeuvre ?

[Nick Forest]

rallycross said:

Some kind of tax avoidance manoeuvre ?

Unlikely…he’s been hit with a heavy backdated tax bill of £652m so this sale may be going towards paying that off.

[Wacky Racer]

"Why did you marry 5ft 2" Bernie Ecclestone?"

"He's 6ft 5" when he stands on his wallet"







Seriously, big fan of Tom Jnr, his dad could learn a lot from him.

[IMI A]

Ecclestone has financed Tom Hartley’s business for years. What a fantastic motorsport collection. Probably one of the best in the world if not the best. Great gig for jnr. Having said that those cars would fetch more money at a high end auction and set records as there are number of collectors who would pay money no object to own some of those iconic race cars with the racing provenance they have. I’m not even into motorsport and I know who drove some of those cars. Fangio, Villneuve and Schumacher’s thoroughbred steeds to name a few of the drivers.

[DeejRC]

Thinwall Special and nobody wants to talk about it.
Says a lot about PH these days

But then the F1 forum demonstrated on a regular basis for years that they didn’t get Bernie.

[WilsonWilson]

Didn't he sell a similar number of cars 25 years ago when he had his heart op and also setup the complicated networks of trusts?

Wonder if he built another collection or he had close to 150 cars at one point, Biggin Hill must have been stuffed.