{"id":494378,"date":"2015-04-14T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2024-12-06T03:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T03:40:47","slug":"howard-estate-sale-for-greenwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/howard-estate-sale-for-greenwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonhams Greenwich (2015) &#8211; Howard Estate Sale for Greenwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of rare cars from the Estate of lifelong Jaguar enthusiast Geoffrey Howard \u2014 an extremely rare SS90 Roadster and a Jaguar SS100 Roadster \u2014 will headline next month\u2019s Bonhams Auction at the Greenwich Concours d\u2019Elegance. Seldom does one of the few SS90s still in existence come up for public sale, and this particular example is correct and original, but needs freshening as Howard acquired it nearly 45 years ago and began a restoration that, ultimately, he never did finish.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent SS100 model, given its name because of its ability to reach 100mph, sold well and spurred the company toward its outright victories at Le Mans in the 1950s. This particular example was acquired by Howard about the same time as the SS90.<\/p>\n<p>Another leaping cat, a 1958 XK150 3.4-Liter Roadster that for many years was Howard\u2019s daily driver, is also being sold. These Jaguar sports cars are but three of many \u2013 including a 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Cabriolet \u2013 that will be offered for sale on Sunday, May 31 at the Greenwich Concours d\u2019Elegance in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, Connecticut, just 30 miles north of New York City. For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Bonhams.com\/Greenwich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.Bonhams.com\/Greenwich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of rare cars from the Estate of lifelong Jaguar enthusiast Geoffrey Howard \u2014 an extremely rare SS90 Roadster and a Jaguar SS100 Roadster \u2014 will headline next month\u2019s Bonhams Auction at the Greenwich Concours d\u2019Elegance. Seldom does one of the few SS90s still in existence come up for public sale, and this particular example is correct and original, but needs freshening as Howard acquired it nearly 45 years ago and began a restoration that, ultimately, he never did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":710870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10112,562,11577],"tags":[7366,415,17341,8012],"class_list":["post-494378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctions","category-jaguar","category-auction-action","tag-auctions","tag-jaguar","tag-jaguar-at-auction","tag-bonhams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bonhams Greenwich (2015) - Howard Estate Sale for Greenwich<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/howard-estate-sale-for-greenwich\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bonhams Greenwich (2015) - Howard Estate Sale for Greenwich\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A pair of rare cars from the Estate of lifelong Jaguar enthusiast Geoffrey Howard \u2014 an extremely rare SS90 Roadster and a Jaguar SS100 Roadster \u2014 will headline next month\u2019s Bonhams Auction at the Greenwich Concours d\u2019Elegance. 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