More than 800 car collectors spent $14 million at an auction in California, snapping up Duesenberg and Mercedes-Benz models and passing on a 1939 Auto Union racer that was estimated to fetch as much as $10 million. The Auto Union racing car had been expected to make the most for any single-seat Grand Prix racer. The auction house said the Auto Union had top finishes in the 1939 Grand Prix season and was driven by Rudolf Hasse and Hans Stuck, two well-known German drivers. Simon Kidston, a Geneva-based classic car adviser, said in an interview when the sale was announced in March that he could not remember a single-seat racing car fetching more than $5 million. read more
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