DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

If you've been following the excellent resto thread by Darren about his lovely truckette, you'll know that it's been delivered to it's new home in Bath. Happily, the new owner Hilary, has put it back in use as a daily delivery van for her shop, Bloomsbury & Co.

Hilary is delighted with the van and it's already attracting plenty of attention so Hilary & Darren thought it would be a good thing to celebrate the truckette's return to work by providing something to auction for 10K for 10 years.

So Bloomsbury & Co have generously donated a Paul Smith holdall with the Mini & Marshall design. These are great weekend bags and fit perfectly in early Porsche of all types

This bag retails at £290 and Bloomsbury will cover the UK post & packing, full details of the bag here http://www.bloomsburystore.com/mens/men ... rshall.htm

I know that we all love a bargain but it would be nice to think that we can use this generous donation to raise a decent amount for 10k for 10 years.

Let's run the auction until 9pm on Sunday 9 December... happy bidding!

Great idea of yours Nigel and very generous of Hilary.

To kick things off lets start at £150

£180

Thanks guys, a great start and very generous

It is a cool bag - £200

Ooh nice
£225

That's great, thanks Russ!

Any more bidders for a cool car related holdall with plenty of space for essentials for the next DDK overnighter?!

Guitars, Marshall Amps, a stripy Mini and a great cause!

Has to be £250

Darren, top bid..... so far!

A couple more days to go so plenty of time for a last minute bidding frenzy

I should add that this isn't just a designer weekend bag.... oh no, for all you hard core racers & track drivers this will take a helmet, full race suit and boots!

A big thank you to Darren, Thomas and Russ for bidding so far... any more bids

Oops... I missed posting on the deadline but no fight over handbags at sunset to sort out so... Darren, thanks for your generous donation and you are now the happy owner of this hot-rod parts carry-all

I'll deliver the bag whenever you want and just donate the money to http://www.justgiving.com/ddk10kfor10years when you're ready.

Thanks again to everyone who looked at this post, nearly £10k is a remarkable achievement so far and gotta keep the momentum going...

Darren's just made the donation and it puts us at £9481 - wonderful stuff.

Thanks Darren and thanks to Mitch for sorting this one out.

£250 now paid plus an additional £62.50 in gift aid

Many thanks for the initiative Nigel and please pass on my thanks to Hilary for her generous support.

Let me know if you need a delivery address or maybe Wednesday evening if you're going/delivering?

Cheers,