Little did Rodger Dudding know that he would still be the owner of his almost-new Jensen FF 50 years after purchasing it in 1968.
Along with two more, plus more than 400 other classic cars and around 65 motorbikes. Buying whatever takes his fancy, Rodger has built up what he claims is the biggest car collection in the UK and one of the biggest in the world, and it’s not open to the public. Auto car paid a visit, and this is your virtual tour of his eclectic collection.
At the age of 81, he continues to add to his collection of historic cars, which is estimated to be worth $50 million and for which he hires nearly 14,000 storage capacities throughout England. Rodger owns 24 of the 645 Williams Towns-designed Lagondas that were produced or 4% of the total.
He owns a huge collection of cars to his credit. among them include these few;
Rodger’s favorite Prancing Horse is this Dino, one of 11 Ferraris in the Dudding collection. To obtain the Dino, Rodger had to purchase the entire collection from the widow of a deceased friend and of the half-dozen cars, this was the only one he was particularly interested in purchasing.
Military Austin Seven
Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia
Jensen Interceptor
the 1966 Vignale-inspired Interceptor; Rodger has many of them. He also has one of the 1949-era original Interceptors, which are extremely rarer. Only 32 of these four-seater convertibles were manufactured, and each one was equipped with the 4.0-liter straight-six engine that was more frequently found in an Austin Princess limousine between 1947 and 1956.