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Collector Peter was no goon

1977 WOOD & PICKETT ‘SHEER ROVER’

SOLD BY BONHAMS ONLINE, £21,951

Although this rare Wood & Pickett Range Rover looked down at heel, it came with a glamorous history: the car was owned by Peter Sellers, who paid £14,000 for the ‘Sheer Rover’ conversion in 1979 – almost what a standard Range Rover cost new. In the consignor’s family since 1980, it was recently recommissioned to the point that it ran and drove but

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