Equipment
RHD. 4,225/112hp inline four, 4-speed, black wire wheels, dual sidemount spares, tonneau cover, radiator mascot, dash clock. Leather upholstery.
Condition
#3 Good
Runs and drives well. Flaws not noticeable to passersby. Most common condition.
Documented history back to original owner. One of 313 OE-spec cars with the 112hp engine. Once owned by GM chief engineer Charles Chayne. Restored in 2018, now with older paint. Scrape on the badge. Decent but aged brightwork and top frame. Aged but good dash and leather. The world's first 100mph sports car, in ideal touring condition.
Market commentary
The Vauxhall OE 30-98 is one of the least well known of Teens and Twenties British performance cars. It is also one of the best and most successful, good enough to be a featured display at Dr. Fred Simeone's peerless museum in Philadelphia. With its documented ownership back to the original owner, Amy Walker, in the U.K., it has had the restoration it deserves and subsequently been used carefully as it also deserves. It was sold before restoration in marginal condition by RM at Meadow Brook in 2002 for $77,000 and it could have been sold here at the reported high bid without regret and with the satisfaction of two decades of rewarding ownership.