The Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale brings a starry collection of classics to the world-famous Historic racing spectacular, with 178 vehicles up for grabs.
The auction offers a more classic-centred selection of lots than at its very successful Quail sale, with competition cars jostling for position with road machinery. It all kicks off on September 13, 2025; we’ve picked ten cars worth keeping an eye on. What’s tempting a call to your financial adviser?
The leading lot on pre-sale estimate at the Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale is this 4.7-litre 1966 AC Cobra Two-Seat Competition Hard-top Coupé. It’s a car with a long, detailed history – based on the machine that finished the 1963 Le Mans in seventh, it was run by John Willment Automobiles Ltd’s racing division for 1964. Driven by Jack Sears and Frank Gardner at Goodwood, Oulton Park, Aintree and Silverstone, it was crashed at the Nürburgring. It then received a new chassis and was converted to RHD. It was offered for sale in 1966 as rebuild not complete, and titled as a 1966 car.
It was later sold to the future Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, former RAF pilot the Hon Angus Clydesdale, the first of several British owners. It was eventually acquired by Martin Colvill in the 1970s and rebuilt by Emilio Garcia in association with Autokraft. Colvill would start racing with it under the 13 COB numberplate, alongside business partner Bobby Bell. The duo would race the car until 1985, completing 102 out of 107 races. Colvill sold the car to Aidan Mills-Thomas, who in turns sold it to Chris O’Neill in 1999, passing it on to the current owner a year later.
Extensive investigation of the car has found detailed evidence of pre-November 1963 chassis items – more detail can be found here. In December 2011 its 4.9-litre Knight Racing Services V8 engine was replaced by the 4.7 440bhp Hi-Po V8 with period-correct FIA-legal T10 gearbox. It’s taken part in the Goodwood Revival and Members’ Meeting events, as well as the Le Mans Classic and Modena Centro Ore. It’s estimated at between £1.5m and £2m.
This 1967 Lotus Elan S3 S/E Coupé was first delivered to Jim Clark in left-hand-drive form, and although registered in Bermuda it was kept at his friend and journalist Gerard ‘Jabby’ Crombac’s apartment in Paris. Jim drove the car across Europe to several Grands Prix and F2 races. Jim drove the Elan to a private airstrip near Orly on April 3, and handed the keys over to Jabby as he was getting a new Plus-2 Elan – Clark was killed at Hockenheim a few days later. Jabby registered the car in France, and continued to use it across Europe getting to races. It was then passed to Peter Windsor, and between 1966 and 1967 it was resprayed and it had its engine and gearbox rebuilt by Alan Mann Racing. In more recent times it has been on display at the Jim Clark Museum, although it has seen action at shows and sprints via Jim Clark’s cousin, Doug Niven. It’s estimated at between £200k and £250k.
This Ferrari 330 GTC, chassis 10833, was delivered to an official Ferrari dealer in Rome and sold new to De Lieto Costruzioni Generali, a Roman property contractor. It was originally finished in Argento Metallizzato with Rosso Connolly hide interior trim. In March 1971 the Ferrari was sold by De Lieto to its second owner, Francesco Giaquinto of Naples, and only two months later passed to its third custodian, Sergio De Matteis in Rome.
During the mid-1970s the car was exported to the US, where it was repainted red. It then had several US owners and it was repainted black and fitted with Borrani wire wheels in the early 1980s. By 1987 it was repainted in metallic grey and sold to Belgian collector Edmond Perry, known for producing APAL buggies (Application Polyester Armé Liège). Later that same year Perry sold it to Marcel Petitjean of First Automobiles in Vendenheim, France. In March 1990 the car was repainted yellow by Günther Ruder GmbH of Eigersweier, Germany.
In 2022 the Petitjean Collection was put up for sale in Paris, with a non-original steering wheel and gearbox, although the engine is matching numbers. Under the present ownership it’s been repainted in dark red, but it is in need of further restoration, and it isn’t registered in the UK. It’s estimated at between £310k and £360k.
This 1951 Jaguar XK120 was first owned and raced by Robert Lawrie – a cobbler who provided boots for every British mountaineering expedition for 50 years. He’d competed at Le Mans twice before, and ordered this XK120 for the 1951 race via Parker’s of Bolton. Alongside Ivan Waller, Lawrie brought the car home in 11th place and sixth in class – the highest finish for any XK120 at Le Mans.
Lawrie sold the car in around 1954-55; it was rediscovered in 1972 by John Colley as a rolling chassis with front suspension, front body and rear body with all mudguards, and an engine, gearbox and boxes of parts. After a year of inactivity, it was sold to Bob Kerr, who restored and raced it until 1978, when he sold it to Herbert Proctor, who kept it for 20 years. It was then acquired and restored to original specification by Guy Broad, who took it back to Le Mans in 2002. It was restored again in 2014. It’s estimated at between £300k and £400k.
This 1953 Cisitalia 505 DF Coupé by Ghia is believed to be one of two survivors out of ten built. First delivered in July 1953 to Swiss racing driver Fritz Stolz, chassis 00209 changed hands within a year, to Josef Steiner of Zürich. Over the years it passed through several Swiss owners before being acquired in 1989 by Holger Kluge of Bremen in Germany. Kluge began a restoration that didn’t go anywhere, and in 2005 the car joined the Fendt Collection. D&D Classic Automobile Restoration in Ohio restored the car and it subsequently won Best Restored Car at the Schloss Bensberg Classics Concours in Germany. It joined the vendor’s collection 2015, and has just returned from a summer driving tour in Italy. It’s estimated at between £140k and £180k.
This 1983 Ferrari 512BBi was first delivered to Auto Becker GmbH and then sent to Koenig for upgraded pistons, camshaft and exhaust system, taking the engine from 340bhp to 450bhp. It’s one of around 20 to 30 512BBis converted by Koenig, and was later sold to the US by Gerardo Lombardi of Wading River, New York. It was acquired by a UK-based owner in 2015, and has been laid up for the past ten years and so will need recommissioning. It’s estimated at between £100k and £150k.
This 1948 Healey Elliott Sports Saloon was Count Giovanni ‘Johnny’ Lurani’s car for the 1948 Mille Miglia. He shared driving duties with Guglielmo Sandri, and was leading it class until the Panhard strut broke. The duo continued to finish the race, coming home first in the Touring class and 13th overall. Alongside Dorino Seraini, Lurani had also won the Touring class in the Targa Florio. It’s been in the stewardship of the current owner since 1963, and was restored by Warren Kennedy of Classic Restorations for a 2016 Octane magazine road test. It’s estimated at between £60k and £80k.
This 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 was originally delivered to the UK via Maranello Concessionaires, for RW Hart of Parkinson Hart Securities. In 1981 it passed to R Pearce and then, two years later, to Richard Wills. In December 1984 it was registered to Hon MW Aitken, the future Lord Beaverbrook. He sold it to Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie in 1989. In 2003 it was sold to R Heselton of the Isle of Man, where it was on display at his museum. It’s been in the hands of the current owner since 2014 and has been unused for ten years while being kept in a climate-controlled garage. Recommissioning is required and it’s estimated at between £325k and £375k.
This 1956 Maserati A6G/54 2000GT coupé is one of 21 bodied by Allemano out of 60 made. Chassis 2170 was upgraded by the factory with triple Weber 40 DCO3 carburettors with unfiltered trumpets, large ventilated drum brakes all round and Borrani knock-on/knock-off outside-lace wire-spoked road wheels. Its first owner was Edward Jahns in Los Angeles, and it was later acquired by Lord Charles Brocket in 1989.
In 1997 it was sold as a restoration project to Jon Cruikshank of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The current owner acquired it from him ten years later, and it has been in the UK since 2021. It’s been in dry storage for two years, but has been recommissioned prior to the Bonhams Goodwood Revival 2025 sale by Steve Hart Restoration & Race Preparation. It’s estimated at between £500k and £750k.
This 1960-2000 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Sanction III Coupé is one of two factory-approved examples built by RS Williams. Built in 2000 out of two spare bodies from the Sanction II project, it shares the Sanction II specification – a 325bhp 4.2-litre engine with three Weber 50 DCOE carburettors. Chassis 424/R has been with the current owner since 2000, and has covered 45,000 miles since. It is estimated at between £700k and £1m.
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