The jet powered car which almost took the life of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been put up for sale on eBay, the online auction site.

Although the car is no longer roadworthy, its owners hope to raise between £5,000 and £10,000 for the Vampire jet dragster, which is holder of the current 301mph UK land speed record. Its eBay listing says the vehicle has to be sold because one of its owners suffered near-fatal heart failure when Hammond wrote it off, and he now needs to raise cash.

The decision to auction the dragster was taken after its owners, Colin Fallows and Mark Newby, received several approaches from souvenir hunters keen to secure a memento from the spectacular crash.

Posted: 12|24|07 at 9:29 am. Filed under: UK News.