Story and photos by Alessandro Gerelli
Historic photo courtesy Jim Bandy
Alessandro Gerelli found fourteen selections of interest at the RM Auctions at Villa d’Este on May 27 to add to what Hugues Vanhoolandt selected in his report. We all found the ex-Jim Bandy Talbot T26 Cabriolet to be delightful, so we’ll lead off with the car.
Notable below are the number of not-solds.

Talbot-Lago T26 Gran Sport cabriolet 1948 estimate 1.2-1.5 mln euros, sold 1.12 mln euros. This Franay-bodied Talbot was found in Paris by VeloceToday reader Jim Bandy.

With Jim Bandy in the 1960s. In the spring of 1960, the Grand Sport was bought for $800 by Bandy, then an American military officer stationed in France. In 1963, Bandy brought the car with him to Baltimore, Maryland. A few years later, he sold it to Tom Owens of Grafton, West Virginia. Photo courtesy Jim Bandy.
The Talbot-Lago is lovely. Typical of some of the marvellous cars that Jim Bandy must have almost found under French hedges! Thanks, Jim, for sharing that photo. Peter