Latest Drum News
The collection of classic cars, known as the Silver Surfers, belonging to the late Rush drummer-lyricist Neil Peart, sold for the Canadian equivalent of $4.9 million ($3.9 million US) over the weekend.
The auction of Peart’s seven cars, held via Gooding & Company at the Pebble Beach Auctions on Aug. 13-14, saw the top sale of the collection go to his 1970 Lamborghini Miura P400 S, which sold for a whopping $1.67 million (or $1.325 million US) after being predicted to sell for more than $1.26 million (or $1 million US.)
Only one car from the collection, the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, did not reach its reserve price (estimated beforehand to reach between $822,000-907,135 (or $650,000-$725,000 US) and failed to sell.
Peart said previously he named his cars his “Silver Surfers” for the feeling he had while driving them on the California coast.
“The title ‘Silver Surfers’ for my collection of cars occurred to me while driving the DB5 up and down the Pacific Ocean,” he explained on goodingco.com. “Because it felt right to me, I guess — the idea that I was just one of the wave riders.”
Over five decades, Peart and his Toronto bandmates, singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013, and received numerous other honours, including the Order of Canada.
After battling brain cancer for three and a half years, Peart died on Jan. 7, 2020.
The origional article by Jane Stevenson link: HERE
