Bill Wyman sells his SM

"Jobjoris" (Jobjoris) 04/22/2015 at 04:56 • Filed to: None

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After 44 years of ownership. The former Rolling Stones bass-player bought it in 1971 and in this period he only managed to travel 45.000 kilometers with it. I wonder if this low mileage has anything to do with reliability of the car or if he’s just very careful with it...

His fellow Rolling Stone Charlie Watts bought an SM at the same time and story goes he didn’t drive it at all. And the whereabouts of this car are a bit unclear.

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is supposed to be selling this one, along with some of Wyman’s Mercedes-Benzes, in an auction in June. It’s not on the site yet, info (and picture) is coming from Dutch magazine Octane.

E. Julius > Jobjoris 04/22/2015 at 04:58

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Low mileage is probably because he has too many other cars to drive it much.

Jobjoris > E. Julius 04/22/2015 at 05:10

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That’s a possibility as well of course...

kanadanmajava1 > Jobjoris 04/22/2015 at 06:20

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I think that 45,000 km with an SM is not “only”. Those weren’t easy to keep running.

Jobjoris > kanadanmajava1 04/22/2015 at 06:52

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That’s why I wondered

I wonder if this low mileage has anything to do with reliability of the car or if he’s just very careful with it...

kanadanmajava1 > Jobjoris 04/22/2015 at 07:29

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I did read your text too fast and missed that one. I’m too tired to operate properly.

JEM > Jobjoris 04/22/2015 at 09:32

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Charlie Watts (drummer) has a whole car collection, but no driver’s license.

Apparently he just sits around listening to jazz admiring them.

Jobjoris > JEM 04/22/2015 at 09:50

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Haha, awesome story. One would suspect him to have an own estate so who’d need a license anyway?

I’d like to have an SM to look at during diner as well come to think of it...

Jonee > Jobjoris 04/23/2015 at 02:18

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Good piece of trivia: Wyman was the first Stone to release a solo album.

Jobjoris > Jonee 04/23/2015 at 02:29

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And he looked pretty sad on the cover of his album. So I’m not sure he was that proud of it. And that opening song didn’t help either ;-)

Jonee > Jobjoris 04/23/2015 at 15:16

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I don’t know why anyone would have bought it with that cover. The songs are pretty much all terrible. And they’re just all dirty jokes masquerading as songs.

Jobjoris > Jonee 04/24/2015 at 01:29

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Now ‘I wanna get me a gun’...