Bernie's car collection for sale
Discussion
Its interesting that nearly all of those cars are plug and play. Not many of them will need expensive software or antique laptops to get them running. That will make some of the Brabhams quite attractive to the billionaires who want to do Historic Monaco and FoS. Although you'd probably want to avoid the BT55...
The fan car is an interesting one. Would it actually be able to race in Historic F1? Is it illegal? And as there is only one, would you want to? Has Gordon got enough spare cash to buy it?
Some of the other cars are just unbelievable though. The Auto Union and the Mercedes pre-war cars are hardly mentioned in most of the articles I have seen on this and they are easily ten figure cars, the whole lot must be worth over 100 million in the current market.
Mind you, the fire insurance bill for that hanger must have been mind boggling over the years.
The fan car is an interesting one. Would it actually be able to race in Historic F1? Is it illegal? And as there is only one, would you want to? Has Gordon got enough spare cash to buy it?
Some of the other cars are just unbelievable though. The Auto Union and the Mercedes pre-war cars are hardly mentioned in most of the articles I have seen on this and they are easily ten figure cars, the whole lot must be worth over 100 million in the current market.
Mind you, the fire insurance bill for that hanger must have been mind boggling over the years.
Castellet said:
Is the ‘get-away’ car from the Great Train Robbery in there ?
I was just listening to some discussion of this on the 'And Collosally, That's History' podcast. There was never any evidence that Bernie was involved, but he quite liked to be nebulous on the subject as he rather enjoyed the speculation. When he was asked directly whether he had any involvement his answer was 'Why would I bother to get involved in a robbery if there was such a small amount of money at stake'? (It's about £70 million in today's terms).
Many years ago I worked at FOM on the Biggin Hill locations. Truly awful place.
In the hangar there were numerous Brabhams and a few Tolemans I recall, and all of Bernie's numerous jets.
I do recall even the pilot was not allowed to walk onto the plane in his shoes... And some of the old WW2 buildings were very secure and full of art!
In the hangar there were numerous Brabhams and a few Tolemans I recall, and all of Bernie's numerous jets.
I do recall even the pilot was not allowed to walk onto the plane in his shoes... And some of the old WW2 buildings were very secure and full of art!
ker.paulguitar said:
Castellet said:
Is the ‘get-away’ car from the Great Train Robbery in there ?
I was just listening to some discussion of this on the 'And Collosally, That's History' podcast. There was never any evidence that Bernie was involved, but he quite liked to be nebulous on the subject as he rather enjoyed the speculation. When he was asked directly whether he had any involvement his answer was 'Why would I bother to get involved in a robbery if there was such a small amount of money at stake'? (It's about £70 million in today's terms).paulguitar said:
hondajack85 said:
Im sure Bernie was quite poor in 1962 or whenever it was. Money can be laundered through a used car lot so maybe he got his big break back then.
He most certainly was not poor.The Train Robbery link was real insofar as he commissioned one of the robbers who'd learned Silversmithing inside, to design and make the WDC trophy that's still used today.
I forget his name but was an aspiring racer who did the job to fund his racing. Asked Bernie for help when he got out and the trophy gig was what he got.
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