there are a few that do not appeal to me,
like this Plymouth XNR concept car, originally built in 1959 by Ghia and was presented in 1960, this one-of-a-kind sports car was penned by Chrysler design guru Virgil Exner, who always hoped Chrysler would include a roadster in its lineup, the XNR featured a powerful 170 Slant-Six engine prepared to NASCAR specs, the six-cylinder engine pumped out 250 BHP and gave the XNR a top of speed of 150 mph, but in the end the project was scrapped, Exner's abrupt firing in 1962 killed any chance the design might have had for being refined into something more practical for production and the XNR was shipped back to Carrozzeria Ghia in Italy where it was built, it some how wound up in the Shah of Iran's garage, it was sold again before it disappeared,
in the early 1980s, car collector Karim Edde discovered the XNR in Beirut, Lebanon, hidden away in an underground garage, twenty years later, Edde had the XNR shipped back to the USA to have it fully restored, now here is the problem, being a concept car every spare part that was needed had to be hand made, luckily there were numerous pictures of the car in existence which made things a bit easier to fabricate, which brings us to today, it was offered for auction yesterday at RM Auctions held in Monterey in California, the guide price was $1million (£635,000), but so far the bids for it have not yet be placed on RM's auction site, I wonder what it went for?
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