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Bengt Axel
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Salopian
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I'm always deeply suspicious of these auction results - I am sure a great deal of hyping and buying in goes on by those who own one or more of whatever car is being sold so as too establish a new price. Me cynical!!
Mind you with UK interest rates as they are and inflation threatened it is perhaps not surprising how prices of more desirable cars and in particular it seems flat tank motorcycles from the better makers have risen. Always wanted a 1928 Sundeam 500 ohv but not at todays values.
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47Jag
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PAUL BEAUMONT
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A Goldman-Sachs executive could have afforded 4 with his "capped" bonus! 
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Ashley
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There were only about 1700 Bugattis made in the first place, they don't come on the market often and new ones are being made to satisfy demand, so it's not surprising that a meg rich, almost certainly not British collector, has snapped it up. They want rare different and unique.
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michael1703
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you're missing the point, auction proceeds went to charity
thats why it went for silly money
if somebody had paid £228,00 to spend the night with vanessa feltz you would have quiestioned it
"back in the loch with ye nessie!" |
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victor 101
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| I once spent 2 minutes in the company of Miss Feltz and that was too long |
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michael1703
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miss feltz in pink
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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| I'll go for the one in Pink. |
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Bengt Axel
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| It's rumoured to be going to the Peter Mullin collection in the USA, and will NOT be restored |
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Ashley
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| Bengt Axel wrote: | | It's rumoured to be going to the Peter Mullin collection in the USA, and will NOT be restored |
That makes sense.
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Bengt Axel
Joined: 07 Sep 2008
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| michael1703 wrote: | you're missing the point, auction proceeds went to charity
thats why it went for silly money
if somebody had paid £228,00 to spend the night with vanessa feltz you would have quiestioned it
"back in the loch with ye nessie!" |
Yes, get your point.
However I do wonder why these people can't just give their money to charity anyway without the attendant publicity that this kind of caper brings..... oops, think I may have answered my own question there! |
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Giggles
Joined: 25 Nov 2007
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Location: Tucked up under a patchwork quilt somwhere in Suffolk
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| Bengt Axel wrote: | | It's rumoured to be going to the Peter Mullin collection in the USA, and will NOT be restored |
I think a car like that shouldn't be restored. The amazing thing about this car is that rust hasn't eaten away. I always find barn-find vehicles more interesting than the shiny ones. 
Just my opinion, now shot me down in flames.
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Bengt Axel
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If you look at the photos closely (it is in the current issue of THE AUTOMOBILE) you will see that a steel substructure has been created for the remains to sit on. Otherwise it would just be an unsightly pile of rust lying on the gound.
Apparently the under-bidder was fully intent on 'restoring' it. |
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Penman
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| Giggles wrote: | | The amazing thing about this car is that rust hasn't eaten away. |
It will have started eating it away now unless there has been an ongoing programme of rust inhibition since it was exposed to the air, and this will have to go on for a considerable time as well.
The Mary Rose projects and other finds involving Steel or Iron items know all about this problem as well as the problems of preventing the wood from rotting.
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