Back to back: Capri or BGT?

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Brightwells is selling a large number of what they call modern classics on Thursday 8 december. We won’t argue about what can be considered a modern classic now, but the supply varies from a one-owner, 14,000 miles 1983 Vauxhall Astra to a 2007 Bentley Continental GT with many more miles under its considerably wider wheels.

We pick out our favourite 2+2s from the catalogue. The MGB GT is of course a beautiful car, although the slim Pininfarina lines are brutally violated with those big black rubber bumpers. But the 1978 car offered appears not to have changed a bit from the day it left Longbridge (or was it Oxford?). We like its Inca Yellow colour and the original steel wheels. With 24,000 miles on the clock it seems cheap at the estimated £4,000 - £5,000? Capris fetch more nowadays, and only the cheapest of the five that Brightwells have on offer comes with a similar estimate. Our favourite, however, is the 1981 three-litre seen above, estimated to make £12,000 - £14,000. It must equal the MG in originality and comes with similarly groovy colour and low mileage though. But you do have to fall for its boy racer image - that's something the BGT will never have?

(Words Jeroen Booij, pictures courtesy Brightwells)

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