Bonhams. Paris is well worth a vaccine

He’s always been a divisive character but not even I expected him to behave like this at the auctions. We are talking about Diego Armando Maradona who, I am certain had a lot of fun following the Bonhams auction “in Paris” from the afterlife, particularly when his Porsche went under the hammer. A 911 of the 964 series, Carrera 2 Cabriolet “Turbo-look” from 1992 that he bought when he went to play for Sevilla FC after seven years at SSC Napoli. At the end of the season, his contract with the Spanish team was terminated and he never played in Europe again. However, let’s return to the car: silver with a black interior and after the end of his Spanish experience, he sold it and it changed hands several times before ending up with its current owner who put it in the garage in 2016 with 121,000 km on the clock. From that moment on, it has travelled just 1,000 km. Just two weeks earlier, a **BMW i8 that also once belonged to ”El Pibe de Oro”**didn’t reach its estimate, so here €150-200,000, which already included a small prize for history, seemed decidedly difficult to reach. But as one might say; Maradona out-manoeuvred the defenders before scoring a winning goal and this time the car was sold for an incredulous sum: €483,000.