rare former show car now a pile of rust, was worth 1.9 million dollars to some fool.

This is the show car that toured Europe as the jewel of the Saoutchik coachwork... now, well, there isn't much left of the passenger side and it's been re-ended. So, why $2 million? For a conversation piece that can't be rebuilt? I say can't because there would be very very little of the original car left in anything that resembled a restored car. At best, something can be built that looks like what this had once been. No bumpers, no hubcaps, no interior from the original... and not much whole sheetmetal, just a lot of holes

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