ITrediciVaresi, ModenaVaresi TrediciThe last of the naturally aspirated twelves.
IILampo SpiderVaresi, ModenaVaresi Lampo SpiderThe one that goes out on the first warm weekend.
IIIElettraVaresi, ModenaVaresi ElettraSilent, and the most violent thing here.
IVRavenscourtCastellan, WarwickshireCastellan RavenscourtThe one we would take across France.
VWindroseCastellan, WarwickshireCastellan WindroseEight layers of roof, sixteen seconds.
VIR9Reiter, StuttgartReiter R9Three pedals, and the lightest car we own.
VIIKessel GTReiter, StuttgartReiter Kessel GTA homologation car that never left the paddock.
VIIIVent NoirAnselme, MolsheimAnselme Vent NoirSixteen cylinders, and remarkably calm about it.
IXType 12Thorne, HethelThorne Type 12Twelve were built. This is the fourth.Three routes we have driven enough times to know where the surface changes and which pub opens early.
All drivesSixty eight members, nine cars and a set of rules short enough to read in a minute.
Membership
A private collection kept in Oxfordshire and handed over in London, to members who would rather drive than own.
Most fleets grow until nobody knows the cars. Ours stopped at nine, in 2018, and has stayed there.
Ruaridh Sinclair spent eleven years racing endurance cars and the four after that running a works GT programme, which is a good way to learn that a car is only as good as the people who look after it.
So Belgrave Nine is built the other way round from most hire companies. We started with a workshop and a chief technician, then bought cars we could keep properly. Every one of them covers about four thousand miles a year, which is roughly four times what a privately owned supercar manages, and they are all the better for it.
Inside the atelierFive marques, nine cars, chosen because each one does something the other eight cannot.
A car that sits still for eleven months is not being looked after. It is being stored.Priya Raval, chief technician
Three routes we have driven enough times to know where the surface changes and which pub opens early.
Out before six, home before the traffic. The Evenlode exists because a member asked whether it was possible to do something worthwhile with a car and still be back in London for lunch.
The hardest road in Britain, and the emptiest. Three days in the north west, built around one road.
Geneva to the Mediterranean, the interesting way. Five days from the Alps down to the coast, following the road Napoleon took north in 1815 in the opposite direction and considerably faster.
The car is prepared over three days and photographed panel by panel on the morning of your hire. We either hand it over on Motcomb Street or bring it to you, anywhere within 250 miles, on a covered transporter.
You get 240 miles a day, comprehensive insurance, and a phone number that reaches somebody who knows the car. When you bring it back we walk round it together, in daylight, with the same camera.
Tell us the dates and we will tell you honestly what is free, what is not, and which of the nine we would actually recommend for what you have in mind.
Cars are prepared for three days before every handover, so the earliest date shown is seventy two hours out.
Extras
This is an indication, not an invoice. We confirm the final figure by email within one working day, and nothing is taken until you have agreed it.
We have provisionally held the car for your dates. Ruaridh or Priya will call within one working day to confirm the details and arrange the licence check.
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