If you had £10 million....

[David_Jolly]

Did anyone see the Aston Aston Martin "MP209" DB4GT Zagato which was sold at GoodWood for £10 million?

This got me thinking, if you could build a classic car collection with £10 million, what would you buy?

[CSK1]

A DB4 GT ZAGATO which I now realize I could just afford with my spare £10M, no need to have too many cars, this one would complement my V12VSR very well!

[mhurley]

Ferrari 250 Lusso
Monteverdi 375L/375S
AC 428 convertible
Maserati A6G/54
Lambo Muira

Not 10 million but i think that would keep me going for a while :-)

[sng45]

I'd give JD Classics a ring for a bit of advice - £10 mill should last a couple of weeks !

[Dinoboy]

sng45 said:

I'd give JD Classics a ring for a bit of advice - £10 mill should last a couple of weeks !

You could get a lovely Austin 1100 from them for £10mill

[MDL111]

Either a 250 SWB if those are still available for 10m

Or
250 Lusso
F40 (assuming it counts)
300 SL
600 Grosser
2.7 RS
That Daytona race car featured this week
Miura

That should get me to about 8 million - the other two to build a garage with an apartment on top

[TooMany2cvs]

David_Jolly said:

This got me thinking, if you could build a classic car collection with £10 million, what would you buy?

Ten mill?
Blimey. What would that get me...

A very, very nice rotating collection of stuff, somewhere very nice to keep them all - attached to somewhere very nice to live in, AND lots of time and fuel to play with them and top-quality people to cuddle them mechanically and bodily.

...or one car that you're too scared to use.

Ooh, lemme think.

[66MK]

In this order `till the money runs out!

DB5
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale
Lamborghini Miura
DB4
Series II E-Type Convertible
Healey 100/4/M
Mercedes 280SL Pagoda


I wish!!

[Simes205]

1/5 of a 250GTO!

275gtb and a 250swb
Citroen DS convertible
M5 touring for the family.

[alpha channel]

I've been thinking about a lottery win garage lately myself and I've come up with a few motors that'd be in it -

Jaguar XK140 (assuming I can fit into one)
Austin Healey 3000 MK2 (assuming I can fit into one)
Triumph TR6
Jaguar XK-R (to replace my current XK)
Lotus Elise S2
Caterham 620S
TVR Sagaris
Alfaholics GTA-R 290
Alfa 8C Spider
A nut and bolt no expense spared restoration of my Rover 200 Coupe

plus a modest estate and accompanying garage to house that lot above up here in the North East. Should be easily doable with ten million and have plenty left over to run them in the manner to which they should be.

You can tell that I'm single can't you?

[Mark A S]

Firstly a large purpose built “garage” to put them in with extensive workshop facilities, and a nice shiny floor
In no particular order :

Mk 1 RS1600 Race car
TR8 Historic spec Rally car
500 bhp ish Singer type 911 for Hillclimbing [ road legal ]
Original 427 Cobra
Buy the field next door and build a forest stage
T34/85 Tank just to ps off the council
Current Rolls Royce for my Dad

That’s should leave plenty to run them all and have a dam good time

[sinbaddio]

Nice idea:

Merc 300SL Gullwing
Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7RS
Lamborghini Miura SV
Merc 450SEL 6.9
Ferrari F50
Merc 280SE 3.5 cabriolet
Porsche 911 930 Speedster
Triumph Stag (sentimental value)
Full rebuild on my Merc R129 500SL

I reckon that'd do! Probably have a few quid left too.

[The Surveyor]

Never mind the Aston, the star of the auction was the Ex John Surtees BMW 507, that was perfect.

I'd have that Surtees BMW, a McLaren P1, an F50, and some huge shiny Rolls Royce and some change to build a new car-house.

[Riley Blue]

Three or four cars for a million; the rest I'd spend on fuel, hotels, food etc. and spend the rest of my days touring.

[aeropilot]

sng45 said:

I'd give JD Classics a ring for a bit of advice - £10 mill should last a couple of weeks !

[aeropilot]

Mark A S said:

Firstly a large purpose built “garage” to put them in with extensive workshop facilities, and a nice shiny floor
In no particular order :

Mk 1 RS1600 Race car
TR8 Historic spec Rally car
500 bhp ish Singer type 911 for Hillclimbing [ road legal ]
Original 427 Cobra
Buy the field next door and build a forest stage
T34/85 Tank just to ps off the council
Current Rolls Royce for my Dad

That’s should leave plenty to run them all and have a dam good time

I'm sure we must have been brothers in a previous life

[Mark A S]

Well, my father was quite "active" in his youth

[Pica-Pica]

Well, first off, a decent place with at least three garages and a workshop.

[bloomen]

One Austin Allegro Vanden Plas.

The rest can wait until the bubble pops.

[aeropilot]

bloomen said:

One Austin Allegro Vanden Plas.

So that's the remaining £9,999,995 to go in the bank then.............