After a short festive hiatus, the UK’s classic auction houses have returned to action with a glut of sales in recent weeks. And although it’s too early to draw any hard and fast conclusions from the results, we’ve already witnessed some eye-raising performances amid some very promising sale rates.
Certainly, the traditional January blues failed to get a grip of bidders at the latest South Western Vehicle Auctions (SWVA) sale in Poole, as its January 27 event achieved an impressive 91 per cent clearance rate. The star was arguably an increasingly rare slice of BL metal, with a wellpreserved 1982 Morris Ital 1.3L showing a mere 42,126 miles doubling the
