Most Desirable

Drive Time

The Englishman has suggested to me that the top candidate for “Most Desirable Car Ever Offered For Sale”  is this one (and follow both links for pics and descriptions that will make you drool):

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My humble suggestion for the title, however, is this one:

…but then again, The Englishman is even more conservative, more of a traditionalist and more nostalgic for Times Gone By than I am.

If you can imagine it.

7 comments

  1. The Englishman is a gentleman of exceptional taste. That Bentley is just gorgeous. They had a whole raft of Bentleys at the Goodwood Revival the other year. I was in heaven! They raced them too. For half the race they had to have the canopy up, and quite a few suffered wind damage. I shudder to think how many £millions were on the circuit that day.

    I’ll just have to win the lottery…

  2. I ‘ll Have to agree with the Englishman and Quentin on this one. The Blower is much more desirable as both a collector car and a driver. The provenance alone is amazing. The probable first of the original 25 and still numbers matching. You can’t do any better than that. Well, possibly one of the LeMans Team cars.

    The Eagle is a nice re-creation replica but it’s not even an original XK-E. The difference is several million.

    1. “Most desirable,” not “most collectable.” I buy cars to DRIVE, not to look at. and I’ll take the Eagle/Jag any day over the Bentley.

      It’s not even close. It’s more beautiful, faster, drives better, more reliable, etc. Hands down.

      1. Different viewpoints, different definitions.

        I have cars for daily driving, but I highly desire a car that I can take to events like the Newport Car week and participate in the “Tour” , Typically a 40 to 60 mile drive in a controlled manner over a known prescibed route ( with crowds of onlookers). A pre War ( WW 1 ) car like a Blower is NOT easy to drive. The controls are all different, the brakes are less than effective. manual spark advance has to be managed. Fuel pressure needs to be maintained and watched. Driving a car like that is an adventure all on it’s own. ( There’s a reason why there was a full tool kit strapped to the door) It’s not eligible for the Mille Migala but there are equally challenging events of that length here _ The Colorado Grand or the New England 1,000 plus now Road & Track / CD run 4 day tours that it would be more than welcome on. So yes – highly desirable and DRIVABLE , Just not very insurable without a special Hagerty event policy and too much driving will result in a $1/2 million “Refresh”.

  3. English cars are built for little people. I am 5’10” at 195 lbs. It is a tight squeeze for me to get into the hardtop coupe version of the XKE. I haven’t been in the convertible.

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