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Brooklyn Center for the Performing
Arts at Brooklyn College
Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 7:00PM
Walt Whitman Theater
2900 Campus Road, Brooklyn, NY
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Auction of one-of-a-kind Porsche
Auction of one-of-a-kind Porsche!
A much-hyped car auction sputtered out in the weirdest way Saturday. A 1939 Porsche “Type 64,” the only of its kind still existing, was expected to sell for around $20 million at an auction by RM Sotheby’s BID, +0.52% in Monterey, Calif., on Saturday night. Auction-goers heard bidding start at $30 million, then $40 million, and as the now-abuzz crowd gasped and cheered, it quickly zipped up to $70 million — a record price for any car auction....
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One particularly interesting bit regarded the shooting brake, which Nurnberger said, "we sort of started it and then realized to make a really good shooting brake we had to do a lot more engineering." Thus, the long-roof Vanquish actually has a longer wheelbase than the rest of the cars. According to Nunberger, the rear of the car is taken from a modular platform and is essentially a rear of a Rapide that has been added on. Of course, that required total reengineering, retesting, as well as re-crashing to bring it to production......
But wait. The auctioneer stopped the bidding when he noticed the price on the screen was wrong. ...
