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Fancy driving the same car as Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief? Now’s your chance
Imagine the scene, you’re driving past the Mediterranean under the cloudless sapphire blue skies of the French Riviera with Cary Grant by your side.Okay, so it might not be possible to recreate that famous Hitchcockian scene entirely, but whoever buys this 1954 Sunbeam Alpine MK1 will have a better chance than most.A version of the classic rally car - famously featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller To Catch A Thief - is going up for auction.The car gained iconic status after Grace Kelly sat behind the wheel of a Sunbeam in the 1955 Hollywood classic.And it gained further fame at the hands of drivers Stirling Moss and Sheila Van Damm.But this 1954 model, found in a barn in Staffordshire, is one of only 200 known survivors.As such,
