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Home | Vinall and Sanders Collection

Vinall and Sanders Collection

SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY

Due to overwhelming interest in buying the Vauxhall, Isotta, Delage and Minerva post auction, Scammells are offering these cars by Private Treaty.

Offers are to be received by no later than 4pm Friday 2nd June (Adelaide time).

Sale by Private Treaty –

Isotta Fraschini – Catalogue Description

Vauxhall 30/98 – Catalogue Description

Delage 1922 Tourer – Catalogue Description

Minerva 1925 – Catalogue Description

How to make an offer –

Offers in writing only and by email to adrian@scammellauctions.com.au
Offer to be in Australian Dollars
Additional buyers premium of 11% (will be added to the final offer price  – 10% for International buyers)
Offers received after 4pm June 2nd will not be considered
Buyer is responsible for shipping
Offers accepted are bound by auction sale contract and require a deposit of 10% paid by Tuesday 6th June
Final payment to be completed by Friday 9th June

For further information you are welcome to call Adrian on 0431442443

VINALL AND SANDERS COLLECTION

Auction Saturday 20th May at 10am
Scammells
2-20 Magill Road, Norwood South Australia

Two impressive private collections including a 1920s Isotta Fraschini, 1920s Delage, Vauxhall 30-98 and much more.

More details soon.

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VAUXHALL 30/98

Vinall Vauxhall. 

 1925 Vauxhall 30/98   Chassis No: OE238 tourer, 4.25 litre 4 cylinder overhead valve engine.  Up-draught Zenith carburettor, 4 speed gearbox., polished aluminium body and red wings (mudguards).  Burgundy leather interior.  High CAV lights, high radiator. Twin spare 23” wheels mounted.  retained and restored to original condition.

 

 

 

 

ISOTTA FRASCHINI

As a teenager he saw the car in his neighbourhood, often while riding the push bike that is in the auction. The car at that time was in good working order, and he admired it a lot. He followed the car as it passed from the owner of his youth, to one Jack Watts who bought in 1952. When Jack bought it, the car was in need of repairs, as the rear guard had been damaged by a Melbourne tram on a trip there by three uni students, who afterwards had removed the guard. Jack had intended to restore the Isotta and started to dismantle it bit by bit. He used it for a time to transport crates of veggies and apparently gas cylinders, but eventually stripped it down to a shell in his front yard. His kids used to play in it as a cubby house.
Dad followed the car through Jack, he moved house three times and in 1963 Ed made Jack an offer for the stripped down vehicle. The offer was accepted and Dad towed the chassis back to Rostrevor to begin the long restoration.
Dad’s partner Leila remembers almost countless trips back to Jack Watts house to see if Jack had needed Isotta parts.
Every time Jack would get them to stay and wait while he went into his shed and then return with the part. Dad collected every original part from Jack over a period of years, except the missing guard. So he made the rear guard himself, by building a wooden form and some steel dolly’s, that he shaped from the other guard. I remember him telling me that it took him a long time to replicate the missing guard, but he did. On a club run with the new guard fitted, he backed into a post putting a minor ding on his hard work.
Leila told me afterwards, he just let that go as he’s spent so much time on it, that he’d had enough and that he could live with it.
The car was in his possession for 59 years, he bought it back to a fully functioning, almost total original vehicle, Apart from the replaced guard he also replaced the weather damaged panelling in between the windscreen and bonnet, reupholstered the front seats and had a cover made for driving in bad weather.
I think that apart from minor restorations of two Delages and five bikes, the Isotta was his only full restoration and as you know he kept every receipt, every letter from fellow Isotta enthusiasts and collected everything else about Isottas that he could find in those 59 years. He and Leila went on many country runs with the car clubs and Ed always was willing to follow up a far flung lead to obtain anything Isotta. He compiled an amazingly comprehensive collection of his Isotta’s past life, I don’t think that anyone really knew about how much Ed had compiled on this car,apart from Leila, as other than club runs,the car was always kept under covers in the shed
The two Minervas were his next project, however after collecting so many parts as well as the chassis’s, he realised that it wasn’t realistic with his age that he could complete another full restoration on his own. He wanted me to give it a go and unfortunately I had to quietly decline. The massive amount of time and knowledge needed for the task, let’s not mention the cost as well, is out of my capability and dedication range, I simply don’t have his vast knowledge and passion for vintage cars, but I certainly respect his amazing skills and dedication to all things vintage car and bike.

c1922, Four Door, Four Cylinder, 15HP, Older Restoration, Once Owned by the Hayward Family (John Martins) Body Number 10858, Chassis 14840-41 Engine 1610

1922 Delage – Edwin Sanders Estate, which was fitted with a distinctive dual cowl tourer body by ‘The Sphinx’ coachworks of Millswood, South Australia, before it was sold to a grocer in Mallala, SA, for what was a substantial £800. By the time its third owner acquired it in 1958, the Delage had depreciated to the point it could be had for just £60.
That third owner was Edward Haywood of John Martin’s department store fame, who loaned the car to a friend in the early 1960s, with whom it deteriorated after years of outside storage. The car’s next owner, Tom Beare, was given the car for free, on the condition he restore it, which Beare duly did before it went to Victoria with a new owner in 1993. The Delage’s next owner had a new petrol tank fabricated after acquiring it in 1997, along with other servicing work, before it came into Sanders’ hands in 1999.
Sanders part-exchanged his C1930s Delage D6-11 for the 1923 tourer, so was familiar with some elements of Delage mechanicals; enough to know the engine block needed replacement in 2004. Later, the clutch was rebuilt with new friction discs, but was switched back to the original discs and linings for better drivability.