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Return of the ‘Jolly Green Giant’

ONE OF motor racing’s most legendary classic sports-racing cars, Bruce McLaren’s 1964 Cooper-Zerex-Oldsmobile ‘Jolly Green Giant’, has been unearthed and returned to British soil for the first time in 57 years.

The first sports car to carry the Kiwi team badge of the late Grand Prix and Le Mans-winning driver and constructor, Bruce McLaren, was offered for sale at the Goodwood Revival Sale on September 17, realising a price of £911,000.

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