70 million dollar Porsche... oops
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70 million dollar Porsche... oops
https://youtu.be/_LRE7kXcUvA
Click the YouTube link for the video of the type 64 no sale at 70... oops 17 million. https://youtu.be/_LRE7kXcUvA
Enunciation is important!
Click the YouTube link for the video of the type 64 no sale at 70... oops 17 million. https://youtu.be/_LRE7kXcUvA
Enunciation is important!
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Re: 70 million dollar Porsche... oops
Strangest auction I have ever seen. Auctioneer says bid opens at 30M; crowd gasps. Then 40M, 50M 60M finally 70M; at which point he says that it's really SeventeenM, not SeventyM. How the hell do you start at 30 and then jump to 70. This guy should be looking for another job.
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Re: 70 million dollar Porsche... oops
Looks like those bids were coming from a light switch/light fixture in the back of the room!
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It was 13, 14, 15, 16,17
Agreed he was mispronouncing it and the board was showing the wrong numbers. I was watching it live and had someone (an expert) in the room to bid for me on a later lot and he said it was a deliberate joke. I’m. It sure.
Agreed he was mispronouncing it and the board was showing the wrong numbers. I was watching it live and had someone (an expert) in the room to bid for me on a later lot and he said it was a deliberate joke. I’m. It sure.
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Like Vic said, that was a crazy auction. Not sure, at the end of the day, where that leaves the owner of the car and it’s valuation, lots of strong emotions regarding history and where it stands in the Porsche scheme of things.
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lots of chandeliers bidding. No actual bidders. What a comprehensive fail. If there were actual bidders... and if they were foriegn... I can imagine the language translation confusion while reading the numbers on the overhead screen...and not understanding... would have stifled them from bidding. Seems like a lot of effort was gone to... sad to see such a strange result. Now the car has this additional weird cloud added to its provenance.
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here's a longer video showing the entire auction… the 17 million dollar bid appears to be an auction house chandelier bid… attempting to get the room up to the 20 million dollar reserve. There appears to be one telephone bidder who in the end… never actually bids… so the sale fails at 17 million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AR8yvZXUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AR8yvZXUQ
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That's why most of us need subtitles when we watch those British movies.
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The auctioneer was Dutch.
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Even better! his diction was just like that of my good friend from the UK. I still want my subtitles when I watch Midsomer Murders.
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Paul, I am British (Welsh) and I need subtitles quite often for some of the British accents. There are a lot of variances in British dialects but I found when I lived for a while in Amsterdam that the Dutch spoke very good english, and it was more understandable than the dialect spoken by a close female friend many years ago from Georgia.
If I had known I would live this long I would have pushed the envelope a little harder.
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"it was more understandable than the dialect spoken by a close female friend many years ago from Georgia"
Was she part of your female Formula Vee pit crew?
Was she part of your female Formula Vee pit crew?
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I once partied with a bunch of Scots, and then we all went to brunch the next morning, the night before I thought I understood what everyone was saying but the next morning with a bad hangover I couldn't make out a word.David Jones wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:25 pm Paul, I am British (Welsh) and I need subtitles quite often for some of the British accents. There are a lot of variances in British dialects but I found when I lived for a while in Amsterdam that the Dutch spoke very good english, and it was more understandable than the dialect spoken by a close female friend many years ago from Georgia.
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