Whitworth Collection to be Auctioned Off: Dozens of Incredible Cars on the Docket

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

This is the big one, quite literally the auction to end all auctions. Jungle Jim’s real Nova Funny Car, several of Ohio George’s race cars, a couple of real General Lees, the 1965 Dodge Deora concept, it’s mind boggling and we have not yet scratched the surface.

This is the Ralph Whitworth collection. A massive and mind numbing collection of cars that was slated to appear at a museum Whitworth was going to build in Nevada. The man established his fortune as an “activist” investor, buying large chunks of companies and getting involved in their operations.

Since we all know where the stock market has gone, it seems to have taken a large portion of Whitworth’s, well, worth with it. The museum must be shelved if they arer liquidating this level of inventory. We honesly can’t even begin to tell you what’s on the manifest to be sold, but the dozens of high resolution photos available to see at the link below will tell the story.

The auction will be held at the Peterson Museum on Sept 28th. If you can actually attend it, you better, or we’ll question your gearheaded-ness. It’s that wild. Hell, the “million dollar Chevelle” formerly raced by Ray Allen is on the block, we’re guessing that it’s not going to fetch a million again.

Open Pandora’s box here.

Whitworth Collection to be Auctioned Off: Dozens of Incredible Cars on the Docket

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Posted at 9:58 am in BangShift.com, Brian Lohnes, Ralph Whitworth

Comments

hotweelz4me
Jun 11, 2009 at 4:14 pm

Ah figured it out – click on the auction title “Icons of Speed & Style”

hotweelz4me
Jun 11, 2009 at 4:10 pm

We can’t look at the dozens of high resolution photos, only media can register on the website and see the good pics!

palefacetsw
Jun 11, 2009 at 10:02 am

That is an impressive collection….I’m bummed for the guy who has to sell all of those at once…..he needs a hug….

sarahsmile90
Jun 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm

This is an interesting collection to say the least!

oldscoob
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:04 pm

quite eccentric. That milion dollar chevelle leads me to believe this collection has a buyer with a few screws loose…hey, put ome washers on those cragars..not even mechanically inclined. I bet he moves onto honda civics, or maybe a prius. All else fails there is the gas guzzler incentive. There is 1000 dollar budgets building better than some of them, and still selling fornothing. A sign of wrong politics, jackasses glorified and not going to kill my sincerity of real american ingenuity, real history, real legends.Go lose in the stock market butt wipes. you deserve all of it…

___nes___
Jun 10, 2009 at 10:32 am

This is what?! like $5,000 in cash for clunkers money.