Among the late Beatle George Harrison's many passions were fast cars; he was a fixture at Formula One races, drove his McLaren F1 in the Beatles "Anthology" movie and wrote the song "Faster" for pals Niki Lauda and Jackie Stewart. This week, his first Aston Martin sold for $550,000 -- to an anonymous Houston collector who vowed to use it for Christian missionary work.
The sale at Coys' auction house in London went well above the expected asking price for the Aston Martin DB5 -- which was last sold in 2007 for $465,000. Consider Harrison's first "real" car, he bought it new in 1965; it was later shipped around the world and even displayed in a Tokyo museum before coming back to Britain several years ago. The final bidder left standing was the unidentified caller from Houston, who says "George Harrison would be amazed about all the money his car is going to raise for Christian causes."
Which is certainly true, since Harrison spent much of his adult life studying Eastern religion and had his ashes sprinkled in the Ganges River in India following Hindu customs. My sweet Lord.
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