GM is auctioning about 100 of its prized antique and show cars to raise cash and trim warehousing costs, further reducing its specialty fleet, which once numbered 1,000. It costs a lot to house that many vehicles,” said Greg Wallace, manager of the General Motors Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich. The listings include a 1920 Chevrolet Model T truck; a 1999 Camaro Z28 used in the movie “Runaway Bride”; and a 1978 Corvette Indy 500 pace car, one of four made—and one of two that GM owns. But others excited bidders, including Indy pace cars and a “Popemobile” convertible built for John Paul II (complete with thronelike seat; Barrett-Jackson’s Web site describes it as a 1998 Cadillac Brougham that sold for $57,200). read more
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