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Auction Report - ACA 25th August 2018, Classic Car Sale

Auction Report - ACA 25th August 2018, Classic Car Sale

Not the greatest of catalogues this time around (not when coming from an Italian bent, anyway), but there was still plenty tempting us to raid the italicar piggy-bank. The Fiat 130 Coupe is well known to us, and was actually purchased from a previous ACA sale, the OSCA-engined Fiat 1500 Spider was nothing short of a masterpiece and the guideprice on the 116 GTV6 certainly grabbed our attention (read on to see if the car did likewise!). In fact, it seemed everything was listed with very reasonable guide-prices - indicating some caution in the market perhaps?

If that was the case, the fact that 75% of entries sold (with many sailing past even their upper guide prices) would suggest the investment boom isn't over just yet. Below the line we detail each Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat and Lancia entry, giving our opinion on their condition, and revealing their final sale price.

The Extraordinariness of the Truly Ordinary

The Extraordinariness of the Truly Ordinary

Walk around any classic car auction and amid the gleaming exotica and priceless rarities you can often find the more mundane and everyday. And, actually, it's these less glaringly obvious finds that can stand out as true value-for-money in today's overcrowded classic market.

Take, for example, a humble Fiat Uno base-model parked alongside a Ferrari F40, both in matching concours condition. An automotive unicorn whose posters were more common in 80s' and 90s' bedrooms than even MFI bunk-beds, the value and importance of the F40 has remained so consistently high that it was never likely to suffer the indignity of a boy-racer fitting a set of TSW Venoms to it. The Uno though - a simple utilitarian mode-of-transport designed solely to get you from A-to-B as inexpensively as possible - has no discernible right to have survived untouched for over two decades. As such, it's the little Fiat that could be viewed as the rarer and, we'd argue, the more interesting find.

With this in mind, here are six of the 'extraordinarily ordinary' Italian cars we've crossed paths with over the past ten years or so here at italicar.