auctions
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Inside Japan’s Biggest Used Car Auction
Of the 4.4 million or so cars exported from Japan every year, around 1.4 million of those are used cars. Used JDM vehicles are the Japanese equivalent of a McDonald’s; there’s very few places in the world where you won’t see one.
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Dozens Of Supercars Seized From African Dictator’s Son Sold For Millions At Auction
The pick of the litter, for my money (I have no money), is a Koenigsegg One:1, which went for $US4.6 ($7) million and which Koenigsegg was previously extremely mad online about. But there are just so many, including a McLaren P1 ($2 million), a Lamborghini Veneno ($12 million), an Aston Martin One-77 ($2 million), a…
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Former NASA Intern Scores $3 Million For Moon Landing Tapes He Bought At Auction
Former NASA intern Gary George sold off three of the agency’s videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing for $US1.82 ($3) million at auction house Sotheby’s on Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the event, CNN reported.
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Which Eccentric Millionaire Will Buy This Nearly Complete Diplodocus Skeleton That’s Going Up For Auction?
Thanks to modern paleontology techniques, finding dinosaur fossils isn’t as difficult or random as it once was. There are now more skeletons to go around, but unfortunately, based on an upcoming auction at the Parisian auction house Aguttes, you’ll still need a couple million dollars of disposable cash to add a dinosaur to your private…