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Bond car sold for £80k

( 21/09/2010 )

A sports car, once owned by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, has been sold at auction for £80,000.

Bonhams auctioneers carried out the sale at the Goodwood Revival racing festival, near Chichester, West Sussex, in an auction which saw total sales of £3 million.

The price tag was fetched for a 1962 AC Aceca Coupe, one of only six surviving Ford-powered Acecas in the world, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Fleming bought the car in 1962, the same year he finished writing The Spy Who Loved Me.

The two-seater vehicle, which is dark blue with a red leather interior, is recorded as having left the Thames Ditton factory in Surrey in August 1962 for delivery to the author.

A car that once belonged to the Duchess of York was also sold at the event. Her 1988 Jaguar XJ-S V12 convertible sold for £23,000.

Top prices were also paid for a 1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Super Sport Cabriolet, which sold for £188,500, a 1938 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupe, which went for £186,300, and a 1959 Aston Martin DB4 Series 1 Sports Saloon, the 26th ever produced, which made £145,600.

 

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