More Details on the $226K eBay '63 Super Duty Tempest

Last month a 1963 Pontiac Tempest drag car was offered for sale on eBay. Apparently, at the start of the auction the seller believed that he was selling the remains of an old race car. The car had Plexiglas windows which tipped off Internet sleuths that there was something special about this particular car. As it turned out the car offered for sale was one of six Tempest Le Mans Super Duty coupes—there were six additional wagons—that were specially built by Pontiac Engineering to dominate the emerging Super Stock class for the 1963 season. What’s so remarkable about all of this? The car ultimately sold for a staggering $226,521.63. But there’s more, much more, to the story. Continue reading at Automotive Traveler.