Fans of Eighties excess are well catered for at the upcoming Historics sale, with the CCB team particularly taken with a pair of widebody Mercedes – one a Koenig-modified 500SL at £49,000-£55,000 and the other an AMG creation packing the 6-litre quad cam V8. Another product of our favourite decade is the factory-built flatnose Porsche 911 estimated at £38,000-£45,000, while its ’90s equivalent the rare 911 Speedster is estimated at £145,000-£155,000. More attainable fare from the two marques includes a 1988 280GE with no reserve alongside a 1993 300GE at £18,000-£25,000 and plenty of SLs of all generations, while other Porsches range from a pair of no-reserve 2000 Boxsters to a 944 Turbo Cabriolet at £27,000-£33,000.
At the other end of the scale is a charmingly bog standard 1988 Mini…