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Rover 25 Impression - 2004 by Perico001 Sold for £ 2.000 The...



Rover 25 Impression - 2004 by Perico001 Sold for £ 2.000

The Jaguar Land-Rover Collection
Brightwells Auctions
Bicester Heritage
Buckingham Road
Bicester
Oxfordshire
England
March 2018

15.015 miles showing on the clock and every indication that the figure is correct : DVLA records show that this Rover 25 covered fewer than 7.000 miles from its first MOT in 2007 to its last in 2011. And then there is the condition – remove the number plates and wave an aerosol of New Car Smell inside the car and no-one would be the wiser. Perhaps.

This Rover 25 Impression is one of the last of the line – production ceasing nine months after this car was first registered on 30th June 2004. Supplied new by Evans Halshaw in Reading, there are two stamps in the service book and it comes with its bookpack including handbook and a current V5C

Not a bad car, and - in fact - Britain’s best-selling car in April 2000, the Rover 25 suffered from lack of investment at cash-strapped Rover and then from lack of interest when the company was sold first, down the river and then to the Chinese.

Still, that was then, and this is now and what is on offer here is an automotive memento mori and not something you will see everyday. E-Types ? Common. Aston Martins ? Ten-a-penny. How many nearly new Rover 25 Impressions have you seen recently? And in the perfect colour, sporting the up-dated MG frontal styling, and improved interior. Did we mention the low mileage? What a combination.

If you didn’t buy one of these when they were new, shame on you. You can however, make up for that and buy the next best thing: this one. https://flic.kr/p/FSck6D


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Lancia Flaminia 2.5 Berlina - 1960 by Perico001 The Flaminia,...



Lancia Flaminia 2.5 Berlina - 1960 by Perico001 The Flaminia, presented at the Turin Show in 1956 and put on sale as of 1957, was Lancia’s great flagship, the heir of the Aurelia. It was designed by Professor Fessia. It had a 60′ V6 Lancia engine (2.500 cc) derived from the one used previously in the Aurelia (the first engine in the world in this configuration and patented by Lancia) but this was later replaced with a more powerful 2.800 cc.

Sold at extremely high prices for the time and therefore with a rather low number of vehicles produced, it was still a top symbol of Lancia production in the post-war period and represented a flagship for that segment which is now defined as high quality construction and large, luxury saloons. There is room for six people to sit comfortably in the large driver and passenger compartment.

Worth noting are the two small fins on the back which, although influenced by the American style, were re-interpreted more elegantly by Pininfarina who took charge of the aesthetics. Due to its stateliness and aristocratic line (4.85 m long and 1.75 m wide), this vehicle became the car of statesmen and industrialists during the economic boom.

2.458 cc
V6
102 bhp @ 4.600 rpm
Vmax : 180 km/h
12.633 ex.

Museo Nicolis
Villafranca di Verona
Italy - Italia
February 2019 https://flic.kr/p/2hSCdKC


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