Profumo Jaguar doubles sale estimate
Monday 24th February 2014
We previously reported back in January that a Jaguar XK150 owned by Dr Stephen Ward (pictured above) who was caught up in the ‘Profumo†affair was coming up for sale at Silverstone Auctions Race Retro auction at the end of February. Many of those old enough will remember the commotion that the scandal caused, but how many would recall a car owned by one of the main characters in the affair?Well, it appears that quite a few people knew of the 1959 Jaguar owned by physician Stephen Ward that pushed the estimated price way past what Silverstone expected.The bidding became frenetic and very competitive resulting in it changing hands for £124,200, more than double the pre sale estimate
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