Andrew Bogut is an Australian basketball player who pulls home serious coin as a starter for the Milwaukee Bucks. He’s also a car guy. Recently, he was at an auction and got into a bidding frenzy for a rare hot rodded Holden.
The car did not sell because event at $305,000 bucks, it had not met it’s reserve price. That’s not too much of a shocker because it changed hands a couple years back for $920,000, making it the most expensive Australian car in history.
Packing a 560hp LS engine, the car was one of two constructed by HSV back in 2002 for use on the show circuit. At the time, rumors were circulating that the company would actually produce the car, but since it wasn’t even close to adhering to the strict automotive laws of Oz, it never happened.
Knowing that it is one of two, does that justify the price? Hell, you could build a dead-nuts clone for a fraction of that money and no one would really be the wiser. It must go like stink, but it still looks just like a jelly bean late model GTO.
Source — DailyTelegraph.com — The Superstar and the Muscle Car
