NEW YORK: Drophead coupe Silver Cloud II for sale: Some 65,000km on the odometer, left hand drive, elderly lady driver, hardly used since purchase in 1960.
A green Rolls Royce owned by actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) has been sold at auction here for US$520,000 (RM2.18mil) — a bargain considering initial estimates.
The "Green Goddess," as it the actress named it, was sold to an anonymous bidder, a spokesman for the auction house Guernsey's New York said on Wednesday.
Painted at the actress' request in her favourite colour, and appearing on the set of the film "Cleopatra" in Rome, the classic drophead coupe Silver Cloud II was estimated by Guernsey's to sell for four times more than it did.
Taylor was given the iconic car in 1960 by her then-husband Eddie Fisher. She kept the Rolls Royce for over 20 years before it was bought by Californian collector Karl Kardel in the late 1970s.
Although the actress held on to the car for so long, Kardel told The New York Times that it is uncertain whether she ever drove it. "I do not think Elizabeth ever had a driver's license," he said.
