Dentist’s private car collection is selling for £100 million

A car-obsessed dentist who has amassed Britain’s biggest private car collection is selling the whole lot for £100million. 

James Hull, 53, who founded the James Hull Associates chain of dentists, owns more than 450 rare and classic cars, ranging from multi-million pound rare Jaguars to Winston Churchill’s Austin, and a Bentley once owned by Elton John. With no room to park them all near his home in Kensington, west London, he garages them in vast warehouses in Herefordshire, but has now decided to sell up because of health reasons. None of the cars is cheap, but a buyer with particularly deep pockets is needed, because  Dr Hull says he is determined to sell the 457-strong collection as a whole. He is hoping a buyer will come in with a £100million-plus offer, making it the highest value car sale in Britain. For that price, the buyer will get 457 classic vehicles, 365 pedal cars and 300 pieces of memorabilia including model aircraft from WW1 and WW2. With cars represented from every decade since the 1930s, the collection includes a Jaguar D-Type, worth in excess of £4million, a similarly valuable Jaguar C-Type, and Lord Mountbatten’s Mini Traveller, as well as a super-rare 1950s Jaguar KXSS. The collection also includes a Humber which was owned by the judge presiding over the Profumo Affair and a 1961 Jaguar E-Type which belonged to Britain’s world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood.
 
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