Top picks from the 2025 Bonhams|Cars Revival Sale

In this pick and mix of what’s on offer, we’ve chosen some of the choice lots that stood out to us. It’s an eclectic selection of the occasionally esoteric that proves the auction is nothing if not varied. 

1983 Ferrari 512 BBi Koenig

Estimate: £100,000-£150,000

Not many people would look at a stock Ferrari 512 BB and decide that it needs a little more aggression, but Willy Koenig wasn’t like most other people. His credentials include the 1962 German Mountain Championship at the wheel of a Ferrari 250 SWB. His company Koenig Specials supplied upgrade kits to various Maranello models and the 512 was no exception.

Koenig’s son Walter confirms that between 20 to 30 512 BBs underwent the Koenig conversion. Beyond the obvious visual changes that include widened arches, scoops and wings that would make a Countach blush, Koenig also set to work upgrading the car’s performance. Revised pistons, camshaft and exhausts elicited as much as 456PS (335kW) from the 5.0-litre V12, up from the stock 344PS (253kW).

When the vendor bought the car from its Stateside former keeper, it was believed to be one of five in the UK. Having been laid up for some time, the 24,000-mile car will need recommissioning and no attempt has been made to start the car prior to its sale. Once back on the road, though, it will provide a slice of the 1980s excess unlike any other.

2016 Lister-Jaguar 'Knobbly' Continuation

Estimate: £220,000-£320,000

The original Lister-Jaguar first arrived on the grid in March 1957 at Snetterton. It took pole position and posted the fastest lap and, while a clutch failure denied it a debut win, the die was set for a very competitive World Sportscar. It got the better of its engine supplier, ageing Jaguar’s D-Type and Aston Martin’s new DBR1. In April of the same year it claimed wins at Oulton Park and Goodwood. The Appendix C compliant version arrived in 1958, by which time it had acquired the Knobbly nickname by which it’s still known nearly seven decades later.

In 2013, Lister revealed plans for ten continuation cars using the original tooling and this one was delivered in 2016. It was raced by Tiff Needell around the UK and on continental Europe and has since been upgraded with a handling upgrade from Valley Motorsports. That means it now runs in the same spec as the car Phil Keen drove to victory at Goodwood having started from the pitlane. 

Bonhams has been advised by the vendor that this example complies with incoming authenticity regulations that will be applied to historic racing in 2026 and comes with FIA papers.

1977 TOJ SC302

Estimate: £175,000-£225,000

Here’s a sports prototype from the more esoteric end of things. Team Obermoser Jörg, or TOJ, was the brainchild of German racing driver Jörg Obermoser. He had been competing in touring cars and sports prototypes before deciding to build his own car in 1974. After several iterations, the SC302 arrived in 1977. The full width integral wing is one of its key identifiers, and Obermoser claimed two Interserie wins and a second place in the World Sportscar Championship at Le Castellet.

The one being offered, chassis 302-16-77, was raced variously by Obermoser, Rolf Stommelen and Jean Francois Rousselot. Outright wins were chalked up in both Bercelona and at the Nürburgring, the latter also the scene of a pole and fastest lap. The car was dismantled at the end of the 1977 season and not used again before TOJ closed its doors in 1978. It was rebuilt by Ralf Walter in 1979 with a Ford DFV engine from a March Formula 1 car to compete in the Interserie, before it moved through BMW and Audi engines.

Today it has a new tub, the original livery and a Richardson 3.0 DFV engine that the vendor suggests would benefit from a £10,000 refresh, as it has been sitting for many years. It also requires new papers, seatbelts and extinguishers before use.

2011 Wiesmann GT MF5 20^th Anniversary Edition

Estimate: £160,000-£180,000

The Wiesmann GT is as close to being a classic British sportscar without coming from the UK. It blends classic styling cues with modern performance and, like many British sportscars, has a German engine. It is, of course, from Germany and the company was founded in 1988 by brothers Martin and Friedhelm Wiesmann with their first car launching five years later.

The GT MF5 made its debut in 2008 with the open-top version arriving the following year. It has a V10 borrowed from the contemporary BMW M5 mated to a seven-speed automatic transmission. It conspired to deliver a 193mph top speed and a 0-62mph time of 3.9 seconds that’s at odds with its old-school styling. 

Wiesmann built around 1,600 cars in total and of those only 200 were GT MF5s. This one is German registered and has an odometer reading of just 548km. Despite the light use, it had a service in 2021 totalling just under €4,000. Who will be tempted by a mix of German engineering and pseudo-classic looks?

1960 FMR Tg500 ‘Tiger’ Cabriolet

Estimate: £90,000-£110,000

Sticking with German machinery, this FMR microcar couldn’t be further removed from the Wiesmann. It’s better known as a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller but before it adopted its manufacture's name it was named after co-designer Fritz Fend. Two occupants sit in tandem beneath a canopy reminiscent of those employed on Messerschmitt’s World War II aircraft.

Power was more modest than it was for those flying machines, though. It was initially offered as the KR175 with a two-stroke engine producing just 9PS (6.6kW). The version offered here is the four-wheeled Tg500 which was nicknamed ‘Tiger’. It benefits from a 500cc twin-cylinder air-cooled two-stroke engine. 

This FMR version was built for competition, and to that end has modified suspension and gearchange as well as visual tweaks. It was used in competition in period by Eduart Ernst and eventually came to the UK in the 1990s. On this side of the channel its original and unique colour scheme was re-instated and it saw extensive use before a more recent period in storage. It’s well documented in microcar circles.

c.1959 FIAT 1100 ‘Abarth Evocation’

Estimate: £15,000-£20,000

Now for something a little esoteric with a Goodwood connection. Abarth never actually turned its hand to the Fiat 1100, so this is effectively an imagining of what the tuning specialist may have done with the family saloon. 

It takes as its base a right-hand-drive that was originally delivered to Pretoria, South Africa. The Goodwood connection? Ten years ago it was driven by Rob Gravett and Ben Anderson in the St. Mary’s Trophy where they finished 11^th overall. It was then sold to crime novelist and Goodwood regular Peter James who made two appearances with the car here in West Sussex. 

Another change of hands saw the vendor buy it from the 2019 Bonhams|Cars Revival Sale. Since then, it has had more than £20,000 spent on it at CCK Historic Racing and Restoration, which makes its upper estimate south of that figure look particularly tempting.

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Goodwood photography by Pete Summers.