Strange but true tales of car collecting
Subtitle: drowned Bugattis, buried Belvederes, felonious Ferraris, and other wild stories of automotive misadventure
By: by Keith Martin and Linda Clark
Contributors: Clark, Linda
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780760344002
Subjects: Automobiles; Biography; Anecdotes; Curiosities and wonders; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: Collects true stories about eccentric car collectors, including the tale of an English nobleman who buried his horde of Ferraris in an insurance scam and a woman who loved her car so much she wished to be buried in it.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: [1] Fame & Fortune; title: The $16.4 Million Ferrari; title: The O'Quinn Collection; title: The Bill Cosby Super Snake; title: Jay Leno's Duesenberg; title: The Real Chitty Bang Bang; title: Fraudulent Lord Brocket; title: Steve McQueen's Sunglasses; title: Lord Brocket Strikes Again; title: The Cobra Rises; title: The $4.4 Million Barn Find Bugatti; title: A Car of a Different Color; title: The Jeffries Porsche; title: [2] Wrecks & Ruins; title: The Buried Belvedere; title: Fiery History of the Jaguar XKSS; title: A Princely Collection Rots; title: The Forgotten Ferrari GTO; title: The Lost Norseman; title: The Bugatti in the Lake; title: The Veyron in the Lake; title: Pikeville Purgatory; title: The Junkyard Ferrari; title: [3] Stranger than Fiction; title: The Bhagwan's 93 Rolls-Royces; title: The One-Piece-at-a-Time Cadillac; title: The Anything Cars; title: The Knee-Steering Besasie Cars; title: Portuguese Barn Find; title: The Devin-body Ferrari; title: The Lost & Found Aston Martin DB4; title: Buried in Ferrari; title: The Purloined 500K; title: Lance Miller's Quest; title: The Pontiac Ghost Cars; title: The Green Bay Parts Packer; title: Trainload of Bugattis; title: The Amphicar; title: The Bubble-screened Boondoggle.