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Written by Stephen Dobie
Last weekend"s Bonhams Aston Martin Sale was an auction of oddities, with the headline car failing to sell despite a bid of 5million while other cars whipped bidders into a mild frenzy.TG was there to watch the action unfold, and we can"t recommend visiting an auction highly enough. Even if you haven"t got the requisite funds to bid. It can be as interesting as actual motorsport, watching the winning bid fly back and forth like the ball in a fevered tennis rally.Much of the entertainment comes via the auctioneer himself. Jamie Knight is something of a Bonhams icon, his natural wit while conducting the bids no doubt extracting maximum money from those bidding, while enthralling everyone else.But Knight"s knowledge of regular customers crucially remembering their names, involving them in his dialogue surely evokes real loyalty. His balancing of phone, online and in-the-room bidders is also a sight to behold.So allow us to walk you through the big stories of the Bonhams Aston Martin Sale 2016.
Date written: 23 May 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3569
Last weekend"s Bonhams Aston Martin Sale was an auction of oddities, with the headline car failing to sell despite a bid of 5million while other cars whipped bidders into a mild frenzy.TG was there to watch the action unfold, and we can"t recommend visiting an auction highly enough. Even if you haven"t got the requisite funds to bid. It can be as interesting as actual motorsport, watching the winning bid fly back and forth like the ball in a fevered tennis rally.Much of the entertainment comes via the auctioneer himself. Jamie Knight is something of a Bonhams icon, his natural wit while conducting the bids no doubt extracting maximum money from those bidding, while enthralling everyone else.But Knight"s knowledge of regular customers crucially remembering their names, involving them in his dialogue surely evokes real loyalty. His balancing of phone, online and in-the-room bidders is also a sight to behold.So allow us to walk you through the big stories of the Bonhams Aston Martin Sale 2016.
Date written: 23 May 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3569
