Gary,
I believe his name is Alan Lewenthal(sp?).It is my understanding that he is a
curator for a museum somewhere in Colorado.
Speed TV was doing a show called "Barrett-Jackson,Life on the Blocks" before
the auction aired and one of the segments did an expose' on him. I caught the
last part of it.
Mostly showed his face contorting with emotion and theatrics of sitting in the
Olds during the bidding,etc. Very animated fellow.
The camera and the BJ absolutely love this guy for his entertainment value and
especially his checkbook!
Cheers,
Scot
'66 BJ8
It puzzles me that no one has done any kind of an in-depth discussion of the
guy in the Ferrari cap. Last year he was the fellow who paid over 3 million
for a one-off Oldsmobile(?) concept car, for some museum, (how can a museum
justify spending 3 mill on one car, and one that will be interesting to only
one
type of car enthusiast?) and this year he was back in the fray, paying
ridiculous prices for cars that I would argue are either not museum material
or if
they are, could be duplicated for the museum for 1/3 their cost (the Golden
Beige
Healey). Is he the pointy end of some sort of money-laundering or tax
write-off scheme?
Who even knows who he is?
Cheers
Gary
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