Bonhams Catalog For: Bonhams Catalog - 6th February 2014: Grand Palais - Cars & Motorcycle Auction
Catalog Condition: Very Good, no creases, tears or marks
No of Pages/Auction Lots: 421 pages / 451 lots
Vehicles/Lots of Particular Interest:
The Grand Palais aucions are held in France and quite prestigious, therefore this catalog is very big - over 400 pages! (it also has text in both French and English). Because of its size and very interesting content it is slighly more expensive than other catalogs, but a great read with some amazing vehicles and fantastic photographs - frankly better than many specialist motoring books!
- 1934 Indian 4 and sidecar, 1920 Rex Acme and sidecar, 1926 FN four cylinder and sidecar
- 1935 Cotton JAP 250 racer
- 1913 four cylinder FN
- Amazing Art Deco 1930 Majestic 500 and sidecar (bright blue fully enclosed Art Deco - amazing machine). 1931 Majestic solo bike
- 1978 Ducati NCR 900SS
- 1951 Vincent Comet
- 1964 Moto Morini 125 racer
- 1993 Honda NR750 (special limited edition) two page, Ducati 916 Senna, Honda CBX 6 cylinder, Yamaha FZR OW01, Yamaha TZ750
- 1954 MV Augusta 175 CSS Squalo DOHC racer, 5 other lightweight 1950s MV Augusta sports bikes
- 1958 Mercedes SL190 Cabriolet, 1954 Mercedes Cabriolet, 1958 Mercedes 300SL in red, Mercedes 1935 500K Cabriolet (very special)
- 1928 Vauxhall Hurlingham Speedster
- 1903 Cadillac, 1962 Facel Vega barn find
- 1925 Rolls Royce Roadster, 1920 RR Alpine Eagle tourer sport,
- 1989 Porsche 911 Speedster, 1957 Porsche 356 Reutter, Porsche 962C ex Ratzenburger LeMans Car (8 pages)
- 1949 Delahaye 135M, 1923 Hispano Suiza H6B
- 1947 Delage D6 Maurice Trintengent Competition Car (beautiful sports racer - 14 page spread, one of the stars of the auction)
- 1935 ex Jack Lemon Bugatti Type 35B Grand Prix (12 page spread)
- 1968 Ferrari 275 GTB/4, 1984 Ex Alboreto F1 Ferrari (8 pages)
- 1939 Lagonda V12 drophead coupe
- 1965 Aston Martin DB5, 1962 Aston Martin DB4GT
- Maserati Bora, Voisin v23, Ford RS200, Lancia Astura
and loads more! (as writing this . . . came close to keeping this one!!)