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Robert Barrie Limited

Robert Barrie Limited Midhurst, West sussex

GU29 0DF

Robert Barrie Limited

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Simplify, then add lightness: Chapman’s maxim was never better expressed than in the Lotus Seven. This example was extensively rebuilt and uprated some years ago by model specialists Mick Beveridge and Henry Tombs and is now presented in something akin to a period club racing spec. It features a tuned 1500cc Ford pre-crossflow ...

10,000
14 Jun 2020
London

Introduced just over twenty years ago, the GT3 was the first high performance derivative of the new 996 series. The car was powered by a 360 bhp, 3.6 litre engine that shared components with the GT1 race car. It quickly established itself as a driver’s favourite and was EVO magazine’s car of the year. One of the most ...

40,000
6 Mar 2020
London

The Honda CB77 was a mid-1960s middleweight that matched the performance and styling of its larger and heavier British contemporaries and added modern features such as an electric start. Steve McQueen was seen with one and Robert Pirsig - author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - is believed also to have been ...

10,000
21 Sep 2019
London

A lovely car and a seriously underrated model A modern car built to the traditional prescription of putting a big engine in a small roadster body. The R171 SLK55 is powered by an AMG-built normally-aspirated 5.5-litre V8 driving through a 7-speed gearbox with paddle shift and full auto modes. In its time, a lightly-modified ...

24 Feb 2019
London

Early 911s are suitably rare in right hand drive. This UK-delivered 2.4E was supplied in tangerine with a black sports seat interior and electric windows, electric sunroof, rear wiper and wheel-arch trims. As a 1972 model year car, it retains some of the bright work of the earlier cars as well as the one-year only oil ...

2 Feb 2019
London

A good-looking and usable air-cooled 911. The Carrera 3.2 represents an appealing mid-point between the earliest 911s and some of the more modern variants. It combined the basic body shape of the outgoing SC with uprated mechanicals in the form of a larger engine and, from 1987, the stronger G50 gearbox. UK-supplied ...

10 Nov 2018
London

This car was comprehensively rebuilt a number of years ago around a new Crosthwaite and Gardner frame with aluminium panelling by Len Pritchard. It has more recently been prepared to a period competition spec similar to that of the factory-built cars with a Climax engine, straight cut close-ratio gearbox, de Dion rear ...

24 Jun 2018
London

The modern classic hot hatch. The Renault Sport Clio 197 Cup had lower and stiffer suspension and weight-saving deletions. This is a completely standard and unmodified one-owner example in the launch spec of white paint, black speedline wheels, Recaro seats and air con plus the closer-ratio gearbox fitted to the initial ...

17 Jun 2018
London

Triumph’s mid-1950s small-capacity lightweight, the 150cc Terrier is an easy starter with ample power for gentle country lane and B-road rides. This matching numbers UK-supplied example is to original spec and in lovely restored condition. It retains its original registration number and green log-book and benefits from ...

8 Jun 2018
London

The one-year only 911L combined the drive train of the standard short wheelbase model with the vented discs, anti-roll bars and full instrumentation otherwise found on the 911S. As with many of the cars, this example initially went to the US, where the 1968 911S was not available, before more recently coming to the UK. ...

30 Mar 2018
London

At the top of the R129 range, the SL600 was outstandingly well-built and engineered, and very expensive. As a result, it was also comparatively rare. This particular example – in grey – was specified and leased from new by former McLaren F1 supremo Ron Dennis. It has been lightly used throughout its life and currently ...

14 Aug 2017
London

The first Ferrari 308 GTBs had fiberglass bodywork. Some 700 or so were made in that form – with around 150 in RHD – before production gradually switched to steel. Chassis 21253 was the last Vetroresina to be supplied to the UK and the penultimate RHD Vetroresina produced. It has been an occasional race car, a track ...

11 Jun 2017
London