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Pastimes : Car Nut Corner: All About Cars
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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (597)8/21/2000 12:00:05 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger  Read Replies (1) of 5706
 
There were some pretty funny things at The Car Weekend on the Left Coast.

While the racing did not have as much excitement (no overly aggressive moves by Stirling Moss since he was blacklisted for last year's fiasco), there were some great scenes.

With the dot splat money all but vaporized, the bidding was reasonable. The steal of the RM auction was a 1932 "Rolls Royce." I use quotation marks since it may have been a Rolls frame and it certainly was a Rolls engine, just not the kind you'd normally think: some dude put a lot of work into shoving a 27 liter Rolls V12 aircraft engine into a 5/4 sized car & chassis. An engine like the ones that used to power the unlimited hydros, 1200 HP worth.

I say steal because last year the thing which clearly has close to a $1 million and the car did not sell last year at $360k as it did not hit the reserve. This year it did sell to some lucky dude for $160 and what a great sound that sucker makes.
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