Yahoo Autos Freddie Mercury's silver Rolls-Royce auction will benefit Ukrainian war victims
Freddie Mercury, Queen’s exuberant front man, had a penchant for very expensive, very lux cars; a Lincoln, a Daimler, and his favorite, a 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. The limousine, which chauffeured Mercury until his death in 1991 (he had no driver’s license), is now on its way to a higher calling: It’s to be sold off next month at RM Sotheby's London auction, with proceeds going to the Superhumans Center, a charity supported by Richard Branson and others to provide aid for war victims in Ukraine and to fund construction of a hospital in Lviv.
According to the Hagerty automotive site, Mercury’s sister Kashmira drove the car for a time after her brother’s death. With 62,000 miles on the clock, it was eventually put up for auction in Britain and sold in 2013 and fetched £74,600, the equivalent of £131,098 (about $146,000) today.
