Gallery: our favourite cars on sale at Salon Prive

We’re well into auction season now, so to save you the tedious task of leafing through the Silverstone Auctions brochure for the Salon Prive show next month, TG.com has cast an eye over the lots to bring you the really noteworthy ones. We know, it’s selfless.

First up is this Willys Jeep. No word on what wartime action it Jeep saw, but it’s described as ‘museum quality’, as you’d expect given it’s been on static display for the last 15 years.

Estimate: £19,000 – £22,000

Modern Audis have infamously lengthy and expensive otpions lists. A new phenomenon? Forget it – back in 1990 the first owner of this Quattro specced heated seats, central locking, ABS, electric windows, metallic silver paint and a larger alternator. Since then he’s only managed 16,231 miles and kept it totally original.

Estimate: £60,000 – £70,000

Fast Fords always have a whiff of joy rider about them. This one more so than most, because… it’s an ex-press car! Imagine the miles it’s spent cornering on the door handles in the name of a good review. Also, it’s brown and from the Seventies, so it’s cool.

Estimate: £42,000 – £45,000

All DSs are beautiful, but this one really takes the cake. It’s won some 200 concours trophies since 1987, and has been kept in such good nick it was even once featured on a well-known BBC motoring programme. No doubt, the highlight of its career.

Estimate: £75,000 – £90,000

Yes, a 'P1' for forty grand. Okay, it’s not that P1, but Subaru’s two-door, tuned Millennial is one of the all-time great Japanese performance cars. This one’s just been treated to a 1,000-hour restoration.

Estimate: £38,000 – £44,000

The Series III E-type is usually regarded as the least desirable version, but this one hits back by having starred in the second-ever episode of the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses. It’s got a V12, it’s in excellent condition, and it’s a TV star. Lovely-jubbly.

Estimate: £75,000 – £85,000

Most supercars these days sell out before Joe Public has had a sniff of them. So this SV is a bit of an opportunity. It’s pretty much box fresh with just 59km on the dial, so that 750bhp V12 has barely been broken in…

Estimate: £480,000 – £520,000

Well, it wouldn’t be an auction without a barn-find classic, eh? An ancestor to today’s 7-Series luxury saloon, the 502 was Germany’s first postwar V8 car. Only 12 were made in right-hand drive. No reserve.

Beautiful, isn’t it? And not without pedigree. This hand-gnawingly gorgeous Mark X was personally specified by Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons, and delivered to him in January 1962 before being used as the boss’s main daily driver for the following three years.

Estimate: £75,000 – £100,000

Y’see, not all classic cars command telephone number prices. You can pick up one of the most iconic movie cars ever for the same price as a Ford Focus RS. This one’s just had a thorough restoration including having the stainless teal bodywork rebrushed.

Estimate: £28,000 – £33,000

Fin enthusiasts, look no further. This ’59 Caddy wears a set of whoppers, and there’s no reserve too. Could be a 6.4-litre V8 bargain, this...

Newer 911s will go faster, lap harder, and the 911 R has nicked some of the manual gearbox limelight, but little will ever dim the lustre of one of the finest driver’s cars ever produced by Porsche. This is number 472 of 600, and was originally delivered to Japan.

Estimate: £200,000 – £220,000

Let’s be honest, next to the rarefied SLs, this 220S ain’t the slinkiest Fifties Benz. But that’s why we like it. Powered by a 2.2-litre (ah, remember when Mercedes badges made sense?) six-cylinder motor, this is one of just 20 right hand drive examples made, of which eight survive today.

Estimate: £90,000 – £110,000

Surely one of the best-proportioned Mustangs ever, this 400bhp GT500 is one of 458 sold in Candy Apple Red, and was originally registered in Houston, Texas. Since being shipped over from the US six years ago, the car has covered only 200 miles in Britain.

Estimate: £100,000 – £200,000