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Got an old safety car gathering dust? We've got bidders queuing up round the block for 'em

By Cam Tait / Thursday, 11 September 2025 / Loading comments

Corvette (C6) Indy 500 Pace Car replica, 2007, 21.2k miles - sold for £30,123

There are many perks to winning the Indy 500. The sheer elation of beating 32 of America’s best drivers - all in identical(ish) cars - over a 500-mile flat-out sprint, the fact that your name will forever reside in the history books as a victor of one of the world’s greatest motor races, and to top it all off, you’ll net yourself a huge amount of prize money. How much? Well, this year’s winner, Alex Palou, reportedly bagged over 20 million dollars. And if that wasn’t enough, the organisers give you that year’s ‘pace car’, presumably with the prize money stuffed in the ‘trunk’.

We can’t all be Indy 500 winners, but Chevrolet at least wanted to make a handful of people feel like one by offering 500 replicas of its 2007 pace car. If ever there was a prime candidate for an auction, it’d be car number 130 here. Because how do you value a limited-run Chevrolet that was never sold here and is an homage to a race that only the most diehard of racing fans in Britain will watch? Turns out, there’s a fair bit of love for the ‘Vette pace car on PH, attracting 60 bids and selling for £30,123. A proper left-field piece of Americana, now in the hands of its new (presumably Indy 500 fanatical) owner.

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Alfa Romeo Stelvio NRING, 2019, 14.5k miles - sold for £49,000

Just as a reminder: some performance SUVs are actually quite good. Look at the Aston Martin DBX707, for instance, or the Bentley Bentayga Speed. And anyone who gets out of a Jaguar F-Pace SVR without a grin on their face is just, well, heartless. You can count the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio among them, too. Despite occupying a spot in one of the drearier corners of the car market, the D-segment crossover, its 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6 is brimming with character and it’s genuinely a riot to drive.

But in 2018, Alfa introduced the NRING edition with ceramic brakes, loads of carbon trim, bespoke Circuito Grey matte paint and even a scale model to go with it. Just 108 examples were produced, with number 85 here landing on our auction page last month. With just 14,524 miles on the clock and still accompanied by its resin model, along with a set of Sparco racing gloves and some Alfa Romeo swag, the hammer fell at £49,000 with fees. A fair premium over a regular Stelvio Quad of similar vintage, yes - but ain’t no ordinary Stelvio Quad, is it?

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Morgan Roadster, 2015, 19k miles - sold for £30,552

For a company that hasn’t drastically changed the design of its car for the best part of 70 years, Morgan sure does muck about with its nomenclature. First, the +4, which then became the Plus 4, and then, in 2020, it changed its name again to Plus Four (only this time written out). It’s the same story for the rest of the range, with the +8 (not the Plus 8) name dropped in 2004 for the Roadster moniker, which had a V6. Still following? Good.

This right here is one of those cars. Being a 2015 example means it’s one of the later models, which gets you the beefier 3.7-litre Ford Cyclone V6 (the one found in Mustangs and old US police interceptors) with 280hp under your right foot. This one’s a real stunner, too, finished in Indigo Blue with a matching interior. But, alas, it’s already sold, with the winning bidder bagging it for £30,552 with fees included. It surely won’t be long until another one comes along, though if you fancy an old British drop-top brute, there’s this TVR Griffith 500 currently up for grabs. And if you miss out on that, you can bid on this one instead.

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