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Follow on Google News | Beverly Hills Car Club Offers For Sale Joe Strummer's 1963 Ford ThunderbirdJoe Strummer’s vehicle will be on sale today with the final day of the sale falling on Strummer’s birthday, Thursday, August 21, 2014.
By: Beverly Hills Car Club The vehicle will be on sale starting today with the final day of the sale falling on Strummer’s birthday, Thursday, August 21, 2014 (Strummer would be 62 on this day). In 1987 and 1988 Joe Strummer was living in Los Angeles, in a beautiful wood-framed house with a swimming-pool on Ridgemount Drive off Laurel Canyon where he recorded his first solo album, Earthquake Weather, at Baby O studio on Sunset Boulevard. During this time, Joe’s principal mode of transport was this racy Chalfont Blue 1963 Ford Thunderbird. He would take his partner Gaby and their two young daughters on family outings to the desert in the T-Bird. In May 1988 he and Gaby drove the 850 miles in the Ford Thunderbird to New Mexico for the Santa Fe film festival where Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch’s masterly independent film in which Joe starred, was being screened. “This is such a special car to me. I knew Joe Strummer as a boy growing up in London. He was one of a kind, just like this car,” remarks Alex Manos, owner of the Beverly Hills Car Club. “Joe had an enormous love for American cars and I feel it’s serendipitous that this beautiful 1963 Ford Thunderbird is coming to us for sale.” As the years pass the legend of The Clash, iconically tagged ‘the only group that matters’, and that of Joe Strummer, their incendiary vocalist, only grows; as the group’s immortality continues to take quantum leaps. Despite the group’s dissolution in 1985, The Clash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 2003. At the Grammy Awards in February 2003, "London Calling" was performed by Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Dave Grohl, Pete Thomas, and Tony Kanal in tribute to Strummer. End
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