OMG... wait 'till the family hears what they thought was a POS turned out
to be... Someone made a major score on this one...
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At 3:00 PM -0400 8/26/01, DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>Rusty Alfa Romeo Makes a Million for Owners
>August 25, 2001 4:24 pm EST
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>LONDON (Reuters) - A rusting but rare Alfa Romeo found in a shed near London
>has sold at auction for 1.063 million pounds ($1.54 million), British
>auctioneers Bonhams Brooks said on Saturday.The car, unused for 42 years and
>in need of total restoration, is a 1932 2.3 liter supercharged 8C-2300 Corto
>Spider Corsa bought for 350 pounds in 1959.It is extremely rare because of
>its connections to the illustrious Ferrari marque and its founder Enzo
>Ferrari, who prepared the machine for racing, Bonham's spokesman Doug Nye
>said."It's been locked away in a little wooden hut uninsured on a
>smallholding -- it's an amazing find," Nye said.Before Ferrari built his own
>supercars he was an Alfa Romeo dealer and customers could pay extra to have
>Ferrari tweak their cars for the racetracks of Europe, Nye said.The car,
>believed to be the first adorned with Ferrari's famous prancing horse logo,
>was sold to an overseas private buyer, Nye said.The previous owner, whose
>identity was not disclosed, died recently and the car, kept at Ivinghoe, in
>Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, was sold as part of an estate auction.
>Nye said he doubted if the man's family had had any idea of the car's worth.
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