eBay: Less Than 3 Hours Left on the Spindle!

The fate of the legendary "Spindle" of Berwyn, IL, has been in limbo since last summer, when greedy developers announced they’d be disposing of the 50 ft. sculpture to make room for a drugstore. (What, you mean they don’t want to keep a pile of junk cars skewered by a metal spire in their mall parking lot?). Anyway, now that it’s up for auction, eBay bidders aren’t exactly clamoring for it either. The lonely Spindle has been online for a week, racking up a total of 0 bids but reportedly thousands of watchers. Maybe that’s because, as is often the problem with people’s cast-off art projects, the starting bid is way too high: $50,000, which when you break it down by car, amounts to $6250 per vehicle (and remember, none of them run). But just look at the gems that you get:

1.         1967 VW, red
2.         1976 BMW, silver License Plate reads "DAVE"
3.         1981 Ford Escort, blue (this one’s mine–Ed.)
4.         1974 or 1973 Mercury Capri, green
5.         1978 Ford Mustang, white over blue
6.         1981 Pontiac Grand Prix, maroon or burgundy
7.         1980 or 1979 Ford

And don’t forget you also get that awesome metal skewer thrown in with the whole deal–just think, you could probably get like 400 bucks for that in scrap alone! Make the Spindle yours now.

Via Jalopnik.