JIMI HENDRIX Guitar Auctioned For $168,000

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Reuters reports that a Texas bookstore owner won the bidding for one of rock legend Jimi Hendrix's electric guitars — a 1968 Fender Stratocaster — for $168,000, the guitar's strap for $10,800 and a photograph of Hendrix and band members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell framed by two topless blondes for $5,400 at an auction of rock and pop memorabilia at Christie's on Monday.

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