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any guess as to what it might bring

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I'll guess $250,000-300,000. It's kind of a catch-22. If a bona-fide collector buys it then everyone knows what he paid for it ("too much"). It seems to me that nobody wants to admit to how much he paid for a car and an auction broadcasts that price on live TV.

Another consideration is the live TV aspect of the bidding. Remember last year when the black '68 GT-500 sold in the $250,000+ range? The bidder/winner kept asking his young son if he wanted daddy to keep bidding on the car and the kid kept nodding 'yes.' Live TV provides the egomaniacs* out there with free 'look at me, I'm rich' TV time and they become a celebrity to their friends. "Yeah, I bought little Ropespierre that Shelby for a quarter million because he liked the white racing stripes."

(With my son it'd be: "Here's a Hot Wheels Shelby that daddy painted black with model paint! Don't play with it or else the stripes will come off.")

As for the gold Motion Corvette, I'm not sure that it has the same star quality as that flashy black Shelby or that flashy Daytona Yellow crossram JL8 Z had last year. The Motion car is awesome and very desireable but I'm not sure an egomaniac (with a matching gold sport coat) is going to crazy-bid it into the stratosphere. But you never know.

I can't wait to watch the bidding!

*No offense to any egomaniacs out there.