Andrew and David Bagley – the brothers who founded Salon Privé – won the Personal Achievement award at the Octane Historic Motoring Awards on 18 November. Now in its 11th year, the black-tie ceremony gathered the great and the good from the classic car world at the Rosewood Hotel in central London.
A sensational trio of early Ferraris confirmed for this year’s Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance, including perhaps the most significant car in the Italian marque’s illustrious history. The 166MM that will grace the lawns of Blenheim Palace scored two famous victories during 1949, and in doing so it helped to create the Ferrari legend. In April of that year, the works-entered chassis 0008M won the Mille Miglia in the hands of Clemente Biondetti and Ettore Salani. Then, two months later, Lord Selsdon and Luigi Chinetti took it to victory in the world’s most high-profile motor race – the Le Mans 24 Hours. It remains the only car to have won both of those prestigious and gruelling events in the same year.
