Newsletter March 2011 |
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On the workshop floor |
Our team in the workshop, guided by our all-round technical director Luc Swerts, continues to have, year after year, lots of projects to take care of.
The full restoration of the Aston Martin DB 2/4 MKI Coupé in Moonbeam Grey, which we sold to a customer from southern Germany, has been completed a few months ago and this car just came back to us for the 1-st service and some more adjustments.
Two more Aston Martins are 'in the production line' of our restoration program. An original LHD Aston Martin DB4 Coupé, which was found in a garage courtyard in Brittany - France, and an exclusive Aston Martin DB5 Coupé.
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Aston DB 2/4 |
Aston DB4 |
Aston DB5 |
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We are also pleased to see that a stylish Lancia Aurelia B24 Convertibile is nearing the end of a full restoration and only needs the trimmer to take care of her, before we can hand her over to the impatient new owner.
In the same classic car style a Maserati Vignale Spider is more or less half way through.
We are all proud to see the result of a chassis-up rebuild of the MRT Jaguar which was with us for several years. Her first outing was to the Retro Classic show in Stuttgart, where this sports-racing car attracted lots of interest.
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Lancia B24 Convertible |
Maserati Vignale Spider |
MRT Jaguar |
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Sadly a garage fire at my customers home in Brittany - France destroyed a very beautiful Jaguar E-type 3,8 flat-floor Coupé, which we sold him approx. 10 years ago. Although being very severely damaged, we thought we had to do an effort to try and save this rare flat-floor E-type Coupé.
Last year one of our very good customers asked us to restore a Facel Vega II. Designed by Facel Vega founder Mr. Jean Daninos this French top-range model was driven by the 'happy few' of the 50-ies and 60-ies. We look forward to bring this restoration to a good end.
Finally our 1947 Aprilia Pininfarina prototype project is getting well on her way to finalisation. We hope to be able to show her in all her glory and refinement to our numerous classic car friends in the next few weeks.
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Firedamaged E-type Coupé |
Facel Vega II |
Lancia Aprilia Pinifarina |
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| Very active classic car sales activity. |
One has only to scroll down the Marreyt Classics stock list to notice from the SOLD labels that sales were excellent during the last year.
Amongst those some exceptionnal classic cars.
I was particularly proud to find a new home for the deliciously original condition Bugatti T57 Labourdette 'VuTotal' and the excentric Bugatti T57 Atlantic Spider.
Both the Jaguar XKSS by Lynx, this mytical sports-racing car from Jaguar, and the one-off Fiat 1100TV Allemano Convertible represented in my eyes 'little jewels' which resided for a while in my showroom, but which both ended-up in the collection of one of our esteemed customers in the North of England. |
Bugatti T57 VuTotal |
Bugatti T57 Atlantic Spider |
Fiat 1100TV Alemano |
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Fiat Ottovu Rapi |
After having sold our perfectly restored Fiat Ottovu Rapi (chassis n° 86) to an American customer, also the beautifully restored Fiat Ottovu Zagato with chassis n° 62, with Mille Miglia racing history in 1955 & 56, came back to us and was sold within a couple of days to an enthusiast Flemish customer.
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Fiat Ottovu Zagato |
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Fiat 509 Sport Monza
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Very sympathetic is the fact that after being bought by two young enthusiast Mille Miglia fans our sweet Fiat 509 Sport Monza was immediately selected by the organising commitee to participate at this years Historic Mille Miglia. I am sure my young Flemish classic car enthusiasts will have the time of their life at this exceptionnal event with "La Fritte".
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| Call it 'fatal attraction', but I was not the only one to be impressed with the beautifully original interior of the 1927 Lancia Lambda Weymann saloon. My friend, and classic car customer, Bart Ramakers organised a photoshoot with model Aline in admiration for so much beauty. This rare Lancia becomes now part of an important collection in Hamburg.
Forgive me to appear a bit 'blasé', but I probably sold half a dozen of Aston Martins and as much Lancia Aurelias during the past year. Don't conclude that I consider those as 'ordinary'. On the contrary, they are my favourite classics to use on a regular basis to travel backwards and forwards between my home in Dilbeek and my classic car garage in Aalst. Fun!
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Aline in admiration for Lancia Lambda |
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| In the media. |
 | | The stylish black/white classic car magazine 'RoadBook', which attaches as much importance to the quality of the photography as to the selection of the classic car subjects, concentrated during the past year rather often on our classic cars in stock.
It was a pleasure to see published on paper in successive issues the features on the restoration of our Aston Martin DB4, our Fiat Ottovu Rapi with raindrops under a grey menacing sky, the Jaguar XKSS at full speed at the Chimay racetrack.
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| Lets meet. |
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