Brabham BT62

To understand where the Brabham BT62 sits, start with the gap between it and the single nearest comparison in a 600-car catalogue. The BT62 occupies unusual ground: it is one of just two cars from Australia in the collection, and its combination of a naturally aspirated V8, rear-wheel drive and track-only focus separates it from most of the cars around it.

Its strongest statement comes from the numbers. With 700 bhp, the BT62 ranks 98th for power out of 600 cars, placing it inside the top 16% of the catalogue. That output comes from a 5.4-litre V8, a configuration shared by 216 cars, but the pairing of a V8 with rear-wheel drive narrows the field to 132 cars, and the naturally aspirated V8 combination narrows it further to 48. The BT62 sits in a very specific part of the landscape, where engine character and layout matter as much as the headline figure.

The performance profile reinforces that position. Its 0 to 100 km/h time of 3.4 seconds is faster than 434 cars in the catalogue, while its 320 km/h top speed ranks 165th. Those figures place it among capable machinery, but the BT62’s identity comes from the balance of its specification rather than any single statistic. It is a 2-door coupe with 700 bhp delivered through RWD, designed within the track-only category.

The catalogue also highlights its distinct ownership proposition. A used price of £1,200,000 places it 62nd among the 600 cars by cost, meaning it is more expensive than 538 others. At £1,714 per bhp, that investment reflects a machine positioned well beyond simple power comparison. Its production count of 70 places it among the cars with known production figures, where only 33 of 177 catalogued cars are rarer.

The Brabham BT62 suits the collector looking for something that changes the character of a garage through focus rather than familiarity. It brings a naturally aspirated V8 track-only coupe from Australia into a collection where such a combination is rare. Owning this car marks out a preference for a highly specific kind of performance machine, one defined by its place in the catalogue as much as its place on the specification sheet.