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The $14.3 million Rolls Royce Auction
Filed under: Exotic Cars, Luxury
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When we hear about expensive cars or cars owned by celebrities being sold at auction, we am sometimes awed by what is paid out to purchase them.
But if the car or fleet of cars is or are a Rolls-Royce, then the amount of money it or they fetch don't really impress us that much. After all, the Rolls-Royce is one of the most expensive cars to buy on earth. Why shouldn't someone at an auction pay millions of dollars for one or a number of them.
Well, a fleet of 13 Rolls Royces were put on the auction block at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance auction in California recently. According to Luxist, the cars sold for a total of $14.3 million. One buyer, Texas trial lawyer John O'Quinn, won eight of the vehicles. He plans to exhibit the cars, which includes his 1903 Ford Model A, the Batmobile, and cars used by President Franklin Roosevelt and Pope John Paul II, in a new car museum he expects to open in Houston, Texas in 2009.
The seller, Richard Solove, used the cars to raise money for the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital, the Richard J. Solove Research Institute, and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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