Black Sabbath Range Rover rocks up at auction
A coachbuilt Range Rover owned by Black Sabbath rocker Tony Iommi is expected to fetch as much as £40,000 when it goes under the hammer this Sunday (15 February).
Charterhouse said it believes the Monteverdi-built four-door model originally bought new by the band’s guitarist in 1982 will tap into a booming market for classic Range Rovers. The Dorset-based auction house believes it will fetch considerably more than a two-door convertible model – originally owned by Queen drummer Roger Taylor – it sold in 2012.
The car, which is being sold the Great Western Autojumble at Shepton Mallet with an estimate of £38-40k, comes with its original manuals, Monteverdi advertising literature and photographs of its 2011 restoration.
Matthew Witney, head of the auction house’s classic cars department, said: ‘Range Rover prices have got really strong in the past year or two, so I’m not surprised both this Monteverdi and a VeLar that’s also in the auction have attracted a lot of interest.
‘When we sold the Range Rover convertible used by Roger Taylor a couple of years ago we thought that performed very well at auction, but that was before the values really started to take off. There’s definitely an appetite for early cars and unusual converted cars like this Monteverdi at the moment.’
David Simister