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The Real Car Co Ltd

sellertype

Trade

Posted

2 days ago

description

An absolutely delightful, sweet car, beautifully designed and in excellent condition all round. A major restoration in the 2000s still gives the car a fresh feel, and the standard of the work and attention to detail is just fabulous. Paintwork, nickel plating, and upholstery are all lovely, correct and just right, as is the car as a whole. The engine bay is presented just as we like to see them, with all the right equipment and finishes, clean and tidy, but not over restored as is sometimes the case. Equipped with correct 23" split-rim wheels, divided windscreen, lovely set of lamps, including a scuttle-mounted spotlight and an excellent fitted tool kit. As you may have gathered from this description, we like this car very much! We sold it in 1994, prior to its restoration, at that time in bare aluminium, but greatly admired then as well. Offered serviced, prepared and newly MoT tested.

Chassis No. GCK35 Reg No. YO 5990

Snippets: Road Racing and Yacht Racing

GCK35 was owned by Henry Leeson (1889/1932) for just 1 month before he sold it back to Rolls-Royce at the full retail price! Why he did so is not known, he had previously owned GA11 & after GCK365 went on to buy two other 20hps namely GMJ74 and GRJ78. Henry Leeson was a successful farmer, pig breeder & butcher with some 8 shops in the Eastbourne area. He learnt to drive in 1906 & during his life he owned & flew a Gypsy Moth (G-ABBX), owned & raced a 1930 Aston Martin LM4 team car & in 1926 he ordered a Bentley Super Sport which he had bodied by Surbico in the style of a boat-tail tourer. In 1932 whilst racing his MG at Brooklands he careered down the banking, over the into the paddock approach road just missing another car and he was killed on impact leaving a widow & 7year old son. The next owner of GCK35 was a wealthy Argentinian gentleman Santiago E. Soulas, chairman of Sansinena Co of Buenos Aires (import & export of frozen meats, transport, laundry & more). Soulas owner of Blue Red an 8metre racing yacht which in 1924 was entered for the Olympic regattas at Le Harve. Soulas was a keen yachtsman and in 1928 he commissioned Camper & Nicholson to build M.Y. Monica (named after his daughter) - the yacht had a steel hull of some 147ft long and her later owners included Sir G. Tilley, 1939 she was requisition by the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Rion and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and even participated in the capture & sinking of a submarine! After Sir Tilley's death in 1948 she was sold to Aristotle Onassis who renamed her "Arion", after himself & in 1956 he gave Arion as a wedding gift to Grace Kelly & Prince Rainer who kept the yacht until 1958, these days Arion is known as M.Y. Grace after HRH. The 3rd owner of GCK35 was John Goold Dorn a partner in the auctioneering firm of Mallam, Payne & Dorn of Oxford, his father had held the position Sherrif of Oxford in 1900. After only 3 years GCK35 was sold to W. J. Egerton of Ulverston whose family connections include the Pocklingtons, Fitzwilliams, Duke of Leeds & the Knaresboroughs.

V5 Registration Document; Anti-Lock Brakes (ABS); Safety Belt Pretensioners

About Us:
The Real Car Company was established in 1987 by Ray Arnold & Ian Johnstone. It was a hobby that 'Got out of hand'. Our interest in cars of the type that we now sell goes back to our childhoods, and ownership back to the 1970's. Gradually more cars started passing through our hands, and by 1986 we had decided to make a full time occupation of buying and selling the cars that we love.

We started with a single car (all we could afford) which we sold quickly, and before we knew it we had 4 or 5 on our hands! This was alongside another business that we were involved in at the time. In the Spring of 1988 we gave up the other business, (exhaust systems), rented part of the premises that we still operate from now, and went full time.

We had a good start in the boom years of the late eighties, which set us up well enough for us to ride the storm of recession in the years that followed. As the years went on the number of cars going through our hands increased gradually, we built up a workforce, and we now carry a stock of around 40 to 50 vehicles and there are nine of us here. In 1999 we were awarded 'International Classic Car Dealer of the Year' by Classic Cars Magazine. The market for 'our' kind of cars is nicely stable, generally prices are creeping upwards all the time, and we feel that investing in a car - or cars - of the type that we sell is generally a great place to put your money. Don't do it just for investment, but you can get a great deal of pleasure from these vehicles, prices are - in our opinion - unlikely to drop, and you can't drive a share certificate! Some prices in the last three or four years have moved up considerably, and these cases have shown a tremendous return on investment.

Over the last fifteen years or so we have brought home several hundred cars from the USA, and we are always looking for more. If you know of a Rolls-Royce or Bentley anywhere in the world, in absolutely any condition, please let us know. Distance no object, commissions happily paid. We always particularly enjoy the 'barn finds'.



Opening Hours:
Mo: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Tu: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
We: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Th: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Fr: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Sa: Closed
Su: Closed

Why buy from us?
* Classic Cars
* Over 30 years in business
* Cars are physically at our premises
* Lovely roads to test drive on
* Our reputation

Year

1926

Mileage

0 miles

Body Type

Convertible

Transmission

Manual

Colour

Black

location

Bangor, Gwynedd