This car is offered from outside of the European Union. It has been imported under temporary admission customs bond and is therefore subject to Dutch import tax (9%) on top of the winning bid price. Cars less than 30 years old will pay 10% Dutch import tax plus 21% VAT on the hammer.
The winning bidder will receive a receipt for the final hammer value, as their proof of purchase.
This vehicle has been on static display for a number of years and the documented history available is limited to that displayed in our photography section.
We have not tried to drive the car, and cannot vouch for its mechanical viability or functionality.
It will require recommissioning prior to road use and is sold ‘as seen’.
As CARS Europe BV is the guarantor of all customs duties and taxes for vehicles within Dutch customs bond, the car cannot be released to the buyer or transporter immediately after the sale. For all enquiries relating to Customs, please contact CARS Europe BV.
Purchases will only be released once cleared funds are received. All vehicles must be collected after the payment of funds.
All storage charges must be paid in full prior to the vehicle’s collection or onward transportation. Storage charges payment must be arranged with the storage company. Collection is strictly by appointment only.
Please send a booking email to the storage centre to ensure vehicle(s) are ready at time of collection. Photographic ID will be required at time of collection. If a third party is collecting for you, then written authorisation is required in advance from you and photographic ID of the third party is required at the time of collection.
Collection either by buyer or third party is only possible for vehicles within customs bond if applicable import taxes paid are paid to import into country of bonded storage location.
As soon as The Market by Bonhams receives your payment, the accounts department will send a release note to the manager of the storage facility where your car(s) is stored.
CARS Europe BV will contact you just after the sale to confirm onward transport requirements. Direct contact at CARS for enquiries is as follows; Joanna Herlihy, +31 (0) 252 682 526, +44 7483 433912, [email protected].
STORAGE CHARGES - €30 + local VAT per motor car per day commencing from the sixth day following the auction end.
CUSTOMS CHARGES - €500 per motor car (plus applicable permanent import taxes from bond).
With the proviso that we haven’t tried to start or drive this car and can therefore only comment on its cosmetic condition, we think this LHD manual Triumph 2500PI Estate Ferguson Formula 4X4 is in very good overall condition.
As the Ferguson Formula badging on it testifies, this is a truly unique car.
It was, we believe, bought at auction for the vendor’s collection in 2015.
It attracted a good deal of interest and the Swiss auction gained some press attention. The following is taken from an AR Online report at the time.
“The car was converted to run four-wheel drive by Harry Ferguson Research, an offshoot of the tractor company, which introduced its pioneering all-wheel drive system into the automotive world via motor racing. The most famous car converted by the company was its first production model, the Jensen FF, built between 1966 and ’71, with 320 produced.
However, after the FF, the Ferguson Formula was also applied to other cars, often in prototype form, including the Dodge Challenger, Ford Zephyr and, more recently, the Opel/Vauxhall Senator, which proved rather effective during the latter days of the Cold War in East Germany as tour cars for BRIXMIS (click to read more about that).
The Triumph 2500PI for sale was built as a one-off for a Swiss customer – a doctor, who wanted a Triumph that could get him anywhere in this mountainous country. Its four-wheel drive system features a viscous coupling for its centre differential, said to be the first road car to be so equipped. It was delivered in 1972 and featured in Autocar magazine, and the doctor kept it until 1983, when it was sold to its second owner, who used it as transport for his holiday home.
It was then re-sold in 2000, to its third owner, who had the car restored in 2003. Since then it’s covered a further 20,000km (12,500 miles), and the seller says it’s in very good condition. The car comes with its interesting history extensively documented (we’d love to see that), and is one of many Triumph prototypes or one-offs that have survived.”
Chassis No: MG53073LSCP.
The odometer reads 60,574 kms, just 74 kms more than it read in 2015.
In common with many vehicles from the vendor’s collection, the car comes with incomplete service records. It does, however, have a great deal of documented history and photographs detailing the car’s unique provenance and its restoration in 2003.
It also comes with an old, original Swiss registration document.
