All profits of the auction will go towards Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD). Photo / SNPA
All profits of the auction will go towards Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD). Photo / SNPA
A smashed Aston Martin, which was written off in a drunken Auckland crash last year, has gone under the hammer for almost $13,000.
The deregistered 2010 Rapide sparked the attention of car enthusiasts when it was put up for online auction last month.
Now one lucky driver has secured ataste of the James Bond action on the cheap, after offering the winning bid of $12,783 for a supercar that had previously been worth $200,000.
The movie spy famously drives the British race car brand in the 007 films.
All profits from the sale, organised by Turners Auctions, will go towards Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD).
The badly damaged Aston Martin gained more than 85,000 page views on auction site TradeMe, with a reserve price of just $1.
The V12, 550 brake horsepower sedan slammed into a light pole last October when tourist Weihao Chen lost control on Auckland's Tamaki Drive.
Last month Chen, 26, was disqualified from driving for nine months, fined $750 and ordered to pay $130 court costs, after admitting a charge of dangerous driving.
Auckland District Court was also told how he had already forked out almost $15,000 to Auckland Transport to replace the power pole.
