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Fancy a bargain classic this weekend?

  • This Saturday - August 30 - sees some weird and wonderful cars go under the hammer at Brooklands. Scroll through our gallery for the good, the mad and the ugly in Historics at Brooklands' auction...

    VW Golf GTI mk1, estimate £6000-8000

    Debate all you like about which hot hatch came before them all - there's little argument about which is the most important. The GTI revealed its red-trimmed snout back in 1975, and has become a true icon since. This one's had a thorough refurbishing and is estimated to top out at Dacia Sandero money...

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  • Lamborghini Murcielago, £65,000-80,000

    Murciélagos for less than eighty grand are few and far between. And there are two very good reasons why this is expected to be one of them. A) It has a category C accident to its name and B) it has been given an eye-popping makeover by Prindiville. If you like it, it's the only one in Europe, apparently, so get bidding. If you don't, you're normal...

  • Zagato Stelvio, estimate £17,000-22,000

    ‘The WHAT?!' we hear you cry. Named after one of the most picturesque roads in the world, this is a car that's equally vivid to look at, though for all the wrong reasons. Beneath its wacky styling, though, is the drivetrain of an early 1990s Nissan Skyline, with a V6 turbo engine churning out around 300bhp, while the interior is a sumptuous mash up of wood and leather. Go on, be brave!

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  • Mercedes C36 AMG, £4000-6000

    Back in 1995, before the days of evil, bewinged Black Series models, AMG sat a little off the radar, and was arguably a little cooler for it. This C36 AMG was the hottest C-class you could buy at the time, though its 276bhp is nearly 200bhp shy of the outgoing C63. A steal at four grand, though...

  • Jensen Healey, estimate £4000-6000

    The Healey was the car picked by Clarkson to do the British sports car proud in its fight against the hot hatch back in series 15. His car wasn't as shiny and nice as this 1973 example being auctioned this weekend, though. Its number plate is less rude too... Performance is best described as ‘modest', with a 119mph top speed and an 8.1-second toddle to 60mph.

  • Lancia Fulvia, estimate £7500-9500

    Which manufacturer has the most consistent record of truly great cars? If you watched series 14, you'll know it's Lancia, and this fabulous Fulvia is among the Italian carmaker's greatest hits. Its 1.3-litre engine may be dinky, but then so is the car, so it's no barrier to enjoyment. And the best news? This one hasn't been eaten by rust.

  • Alfa Romeo GTV6, no reserve

    It may not display the beauty of the last GTV, or the inescapably pugnacious proportions of the dinky Alfa Romeo 4C, but some real magic lies beneath this 80s Alfa's angles: it has the company's truly lovely (and lovely sounding) 3-litre V6 powering its rear wheels. With no reserve, there's massive bargain potential here...

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  • Range Rover CSK, estimate £58,000-66,000

    Meet the original Range Rover sport. The CSK (named after Charles Spencer King, designer of the two-door Rangey) demonstrated new anti-roll suspension and, on launch in 1990, its 185bhp V8 engine helped make it the fastest Range Rover to date. Its manual gearbox gives this 1991 car a claim the modern-day Sport can't match. Problem is, it's 23 years old and could fetch more money than the current car...

  • Porsche 911S, estimate £100,000-110,000

    What an utterly wonderful thing. This is 911 design at its most uncorrupted, with a set of fantastic Fuchs alloys, coquettish chrome detailing and no superfluous spoilers. As a 911S, it's one of the most desirable Porsches of its era, hence the high estimate. But with 911 prices spiralling upwards, it could be a very wise buy indeed...

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  • Batboat, estimate £36,000-42,000

    From the sublime to the ridiculous. The Glastron Batboat appeared in the 1966 Batman film as well as a couple of seasons of the 1960s TV series. In full working order and sea-worthy, the near-18ft long craft comes ‘complete with red flashing light and Bat accessories'. Nothing else at the Historics at Brooklands auction can boast that...

  • Ford F-1 pickup, estimate £11,000-14,000

    Who doesn't want a 1949-vintage pickup truck with matt black paint, a wooden load bay and a 5.8-litre V8 as its power source? No one we want to talk to, that's for certain.

  • Jaguar E-Type, estimate £11,500-14,500

    Smitten by the new Jaguar F-Type Coupe, but can't quite stretch to its £51,250 entry price? Less than a quarter of that sum could secure its illustrious ancestor. It looks like a colossal bargain, even as a restoration project, until you read that it's ‘mostly complete with the only main component missing being the engine block'. Ahh...

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