This was the first ever holding of the event at a historic UK stately home that I’d never visited. The Concours des Légendes brought a special atmosphere to this already impressive setting. I love these old, historic, beautiful buildings. £65 entry for an adult is a significant entrance fee, but this show was different from the many other shows in the UK.

This car show was different, I hear you say. Well, not only were there cars on display as part of a concours, but there was also VIP parking for notable cars of interest and talks by classic car legends like Wayne Carini and Ed China, land speed record holders, and car collectors like Nick Mason. So it was great to hear from those people live.

A relatively small car show, with not a lot of cars on display. Circa 100 cars in the concours. As always, you can see all of our photos that we took on the day on our Facebook album here and our walkabout here.

Our full Concours des Légendes car show review can be seen here.

Here are my top 10 favourite cars that I’d love to own and drive, in order of my priority, from the 2026 Wilton House Concours des Légendes.

FERRARI GREATS

1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB, Ex-Stirling Moss

Just a stunning car. The shape, the history, WOW.

This car, chassis 2119GT, is a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB commissioned by renowned British privateer Rob Walker for Stirling Moss to race in the RAC Tourist Trophy at Goodwood.

Finished in Walker’s famous dark blue with a white nose stripe, the car left Maranello on 11 August 1960. It featured Competizione-spec aluminium bodywork but very nearly never made the race. In June, Moss broke both legs and crushed three vertebrae after his Lotus 18 failed. The accident occurred during the Belgian Grand Prix. Remarkably, he recovered in time and won the TT outright. He then secured further victories at Brands Hatch and the Nassau Speed Week.

This amazing car displayed at Concours des Légendes is is now owned by ex-F1 team principal Ross Brawn and remains one of the most valuable, historically significant Ferraris in private hands.

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1972 Lamborghini Miura SV, Ex-Rod Stewart

Some say the firstever supercar. I love the Miura. Super cool.

The Miura SV was the world’s fastest production car when launched, but its arrival coincided with the announcement of its Countach successor. As such, only 150 SVs had been made when production ceased at the end of 1972.

This rare, right-hand-drive SV, the 701st of 765 Miuras produced, was completed on 31 May 1972 and delivered new to singer Rod Stewart. He ordered air conditioning, unusual at the time, and a Philips radio/cassette player with a recording function.

It remained in Stewart’s ownership until 1985, then passed to its second guardian, Mark Walker of Essex, who re-registered it as ‘LUC 38K’. Niall Holden, founder of the popular Winchester Auto Barn venue, now owns the car.

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1958 Ferrari Fantuzzi Dino Spyder

This car is believed to be a factory car that originally ran a V12 engine. During restoration of the current Dino 246 V6 engine, specialists discovered the wiring loom included provision for dual magnetos.

According to information Ferrari supplied to Elias Ella of Autofficina in Epsom, the company took two engines from its production line in 1968 and supplied them to the Race Department. Ferrari has since identified one of those engines as the unit fitted to the Fantuzzi.

As a result, Elias believes the Dino 246 engine replaced the original V12 race engine. This change appears to have happened before the car left the factory.

The current owner has owned the car for 20 years. During that time, the engine and gearbox have been rebuilt. The seat cloth has also been replaced.

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1995 Ferrari 512 TR

Beautiful, V12, Ferrari, what’s not to love, and my era as a kid.

When Ferrari launched the Testarossa in 1984, some viewed the mid-mounted 12-cylinder two-seater as a huge departure for Maranello. Others saw it as a return to the spirit of Ferrari’s greatest GTs rather than solely a sports car.

The 512 TR was an evolution of the Testarossa and remained in production from 1991 to 1994. Its 4.9-litre engine and gearbox sat lower to improve handling. Ferrari also fitted a lighter clutch, revised transmission and styling updates inside and out. Together, these changes made it a very different proposition from its predecessor on the road.

Long regarded as the ultimate expression of the Testarossa, the 512 TR remains highly collectable today. Ferrari built only 2,261 examples. As a result, the 512 TR can command double the price of the model from which it evolved.

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Lamborghini 350 GT

This car displayed at Concours des Légendes is the model that started Ferruccio Lamborghini’s transformation from tractor and agricultural machinery maker to Ferrari-rivalling GT manufacturer and, soon after, Ferrari-surpassing supercar builder.

He was not the first industrialist to have a spat with Enzo Ferrari, of course, and not even the only one to set up his own car company as a result, but of those, Lamborghini has been by far the most successful and enduring.

Lamborghini launched the 350 GT in 1964, following the debut of the GTV at the previous year’s Turin Motor Show. At its heart sat Giotto Bizzarrini’s jewel-like 3,464cc V12, which propelled the car to 62mph in under seven seconds. Touring Superleggera clothed the mechanical package in a purposeful and elegant body.

Over the next three years, Lamborghini built just 120 examples of the 350 GT before replacing it with the slightly larger-engined 400 GT.

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1950 Jaguar XK120 Competition, Ex-Roy Salvadori

In 1951, future Formula 1 racer and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori owned ‘HBC’. A young car dealer at the time, Salvadori had a life-threatening crash at Silverstone in a Frazer Nash.

After a miraculous recovery, he continued to race HBC, with a win at Goodwood and several podiums. Peter Blond then traded it for a Jaguar SS100, as he needed a faster car to begin his racing career.

By 1968, Lakeview Motors sold ‘HBC’ as salvage. Little is known about the car’s history until it was purchased for restoration by JD Classics in 2009. Since then, it has raced at Le Mans Classic and in the Mille Miglia. It’s here today thanks to Hilton & Moss.

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1908 Mercedes Grand Prix

This Mercedes Grand Prix car, famously and fabulously driven at Goodwood and elsewhere by Ben Collings, is a historically significant 150-horsepower, 109mph racing machine – and it was once owned by the Earl of Pembroke’s great-grandfather.

With dual-chain drive and riding on wooden artillery wheels, it is one of the first true titans of motoring.

The Mercedes took part in the inaugural French Grand Prix on 7 July 1908, which started in Dieppe, with drivers powering around 10 laps of a perilous 47.8-mile road circuit.

In 1909, 21-year-old Arthur Wignall Tate – the Earl of Pembroke’s great-grandfather – acquired the 1908 Grand Prix Mercedes from F.R. Fry of the Fry chocolate family.

He drove it to Brooklands, Southport Sands and Shelsley Walsh, raced it, and drove it home again. He kept it for ten years before selling it to America after the Great War.

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Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Testa Fissa

Testa Fissa? It means ‘fixed head’ in Italian, yet rather than suggesting a car has a roof, this ‘fixed head’ denotes an Alfa Romeo works racer with cylinder head and block all of a piece.

Land speed record hero Captain George Eyston reputedly designed its special aerodynamic racing body. During his career, Eyston held the land speed record three times. Leadbetter coachworks built the body.

The sleek Alfa Romeo enjoyed great success at Brooklands, where it raced and broke records. It later moved abroad, and owners separated it from its body. Remarkably, the body survived intact, allowing specialists to reunite it with this historically important race car.

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1966 ISO Grifo GL350

Grifo #049/D was completed on 10 June 1966 and arrived in the UK five days later to be delivered to Eton Motors. The build sheet has a crossed-out annotation stating (in Italian), “Wooden steering wheel, front safety belts, fog lamps. Fit: radio, antenna and turntable supplied by the customer.” There is actually no room to fit a turntable in a Grifo and nowhere to mount fog lamps.

It was built with a 300bhp V8 engine and four-speed gearbox but was upgraded to 350bhp and five-speed within a short time.

In 1979, Concorde pilot and eclectic car collector Bill Dick acquired the Grifo as a non-runner.

The current owner purchased the Grifo from him in much the same condition seven years later. After another 37 years, the owner completed the restoration in 2023. Today, the owners drive the Grifo as often as possible and recently undertook a 2,000-mile pilgrimage to the factory in Bresso, Milan, where it was built, to celebrate 60 years of the Grifo.

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1937 Delahaye 135

Owned since the early 1990s by a prominent antiques and art dealer and car collector, this rare beauty has been subject to over 3,000 hours of restoration over five years at an eye-watering sum, with no expense spared.

The Delahaye 135 was one of the most prestigious ranges of pre-war cars, combining grand touring comfort with extravagant looks and sporting capabilities.

As was traditional in those times, the manufacturer frequently sold a rolling chassis that a customer could then have clothed in bodywork of their own choosing from a wide range of coachbuilders. This resulted in a sensational selection of body styles, including this unique one-off with its sublime Aerolithe-style riveted aluminium body.

Currently in concours condition, the car is ready for touring and driving, and Concours des Légendes offers one of the last opportunities to see it before it accumulates more miles.

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So there are our top 10 cars from the show. What do you think? Which is your favourite one or two cars pictured?

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