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Car creator puts 80 icons on the block
Washington Times ^
| May 10, 2005
| UPI
Posted on 05/11/2005 4:29:48 PM PDT by uglybiker
Los Angeles, CA, May. 10 (UPI) -- The man who built the cars and trucks for generations of Hollywood movies is selling 80 of his icons, but will keep his all-time prize -- the Batmobile.
George Barris said Saturday's auction in at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles will take advantage of an auto market that has "gone ballistic."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automakers; autoshop; batmobile; cary; museum
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:29:48 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
To: uglybiker
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:33:45 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: uglybiker
Says there the General Lee's up for sale. I should go. I gotta coupla hunnert bucks free at the moment...
...I wonder if they'd let me into the "Celebrity and VIP Preview?"
To: Billthedrill; uglybiker
Good to see both of y'all.
THE General Lee? Didn't they use 3 or 4 per episode? Now if you could get documentation...
'This is the General Lee that jumped over...' 8~)
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:44:09 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Jane Fonda might as well make her gravestone a urinal. Semper Fi)
To: kellynla
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:44:16 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(A woman's most powerful weapon is a guy's imagination.)
To: real saxophonist
I read somewhere thye totalled an average of six Chargers per episode.
*sniff!* That's enough to make a grown man cry!
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:46:04 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(A woman's most powerful weapon is a guy's imagination.)
To: uglybiker
This one and the cars for The Munsters TV show are my favorites.
To: uglybiker
>>will take advantage of an auto market that has "gone ballistic.<<
In other words, prices are stoopid and I'm gonna sell before everyone comes to their senses...
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:50:03 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: perfect stranger
I built a lot of those models when I was a kid.
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:50:38 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: uglybiker
This says it all..
from a proud owner of one of these..
and one of these
:-)
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:56:50 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
To: kellynla
They worked for me. Maybe it's user error.
To: uglybiker; MotleyGirl70
To: RedBloodedAmerican
So that's Bruce Wayne's real secret identity, eh?
Always did suspect that guy.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:46:07 PM PDT
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
To: uglybiker
Don't know if it was one of his, but ...
I always liked it.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:54:39 PM PDT
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: sf4dubya
GASP! I wonder if that means 'Drag-U-La' is for sale.
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posted on
05/11/2005 7:09:51 PM PDT
by
The KG9 Kid
(Semper Fi!)
To: uglybiker
Cool. Pity I don't have the means to bid!
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posted on
05/11/2005 7:41:03 PM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Remind Liberal Cowards Why America Freed Iraq: http://massgraves.info/)
To: xcamel
I still think the original Batmobile is one of the coolest cars ever made. If I had the money, I would stop at nothing to buy one of them.
*sigh*
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posted on
05/11/2005 7:47:10 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
To: reagan_fanatic
Robin: Atomic batteries to power....Turbines to speed....
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posted on
05/11/2005 7:53:27 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: Wneighbor; Peanut Gallery; SAMWolf; Darksheare; Valin; alfa6
I've got a birthday coming up. Hmmm...
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