Celebrity Rides
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John Lennon’s psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V sold for $2,299,000 at Sotheby’s in 1985
John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce left the factory in plain black and came back from the painters bright yellow. Later, in 1985, Sotheby’s sold the psychedelic 1965…
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Pete Sampras’s 2000 BMW Z8, one of 667 black-on-black cars, heads to auction in Belgium
Pete Sampras bought a 2000 BMW Z8 new and kept it until 2015. Now the Pete Sampras BMW Z8 is headed to auction in Belgium,…
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5 Steve McQueen cars and what they sold for at auction
Cars tied to Steve McQueen have sold at public auction for anywhere from five figures to more than $10 million. In fact, the gap between…
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5 presidential vehicles on display at The Henry Ford
Five White House vehicles share one gallery at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Four of them are each a presidential Lincoln limousine from…
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Janis Joplin’s psychedelic Porsche 356 sold for $1.76 million
Janis Joplin paid $3,500 for a used 1964 Porsche 356 C 1600 SC Cabriolet. Nearly five decades later, the Janis Joplin Porsche sale at RM…
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PT Cruiser driver asks deputy to “call your manager,” ends up in handcuffs
A routine traffic stop rarely turns into a physical struggle over a signature. But that’s exactly what happened when Deputy Mendez of the Page County…
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Maranello restores a 30-year garage find Ferrari F40 for a seven-time world champ
For Lewis Hamilton, the Ferrari F40 was never just a car on a poster. He describes Ferrari itself as more than a badge growing up,…
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Woman argues with police over routine check, talks her boyfriend straight into jail
Officer Vasos wasn’t looking for trouble. A passerby had called in a woman walking along Highland street with a child, worried it might be a…
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Bentley cuts a grand piano’s worth of weight from the Continental GT, won’t touch the hide colors
Some performance upgrades come with an obvious trade-off. Strip the weight, strip the comfort. Sharpen the handling, lose the luxury. That’s the formula enough manufacturers…
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He gave a homeless man a home and a job fixing cars. Police found him in the trunk of his own Mustang.
Glenn McClean was a 69-year-old veteran and car enthusiast who lived on Riverwoods Drive North in Canton, Michigan. When Jeffrey Dwight Lockach needed a place…
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