another pic of the Bugatti Girl, the guy driving is one of the transporter drivers Del Tho
mpson from dagenham
Gary Toleman doing loading trials with manual winch in preparation for the classic car con
tract to monte Carlo
At Warehou
se starting to load cars for trip to MC
Loading another Ferrari. Loading tolerances were minimal and loading took hours, most of the cars were wort
h £300/400,000.
Eventually loaded, ready to drive to a local mansion for the publicity pics, all the motoring press were there for a jolly.
This was going to be t
he most expensive load of cars ever delivered by road
At the mansion ready for photo shoots, somewhere in Middlesex
There were two trucks and four drivers, for a non stop run to Monte,
Me from Ipswich, Phil Parsons from Harwich, Hughie High from Milton, and Derek Thompson from Dagenh
am
Posing for the pic drivers pl
us Gary T
Some of the photoshoot p
ics
Just finishing off reloading the cars. When we eventually got to M.Carlo the cars fetched over £6,000,000 and this was in
1987
Ready to roll
Sitting at Portsmouth dock wai
ting to load for Le Havre
Next to load, the car with the gloves on the bonnet, a Ferrari Testarossa fetched £1,250,000 at the auction
Gary Toleman passing on 
autoroute south of Paris
Only stop on way down, for coff
ee and bog
Near Beaune
Arriving at The Loews Hotel, Monte Carlo the following morning.
Special dipensation had to be obtained from police to drive into Monte as trucks are banned
Unloading. The guy at the back in the black jacket and blond hair is Robert Brooks, at the time senior classic car auctioneer for Christie’s, eventually went on to own his own auction house Brooks, which due to its success was bought out by Butterfields of the USA , the most successful classic car auction house
Cars on show outside th
e Loews