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Paul Newman Daytona Auction- One Year Later.
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Phillips to Auction Elvis Presley’s watch
Caught in a Trap I visited Elvis’ Memphis home Graceland in the Summer of 1995. On that trip I was driving from Florida up to Tennessee for some natural wonders sightseeing and more importantly… the completely unnatural hot mess that Elvis lived in. I say that lovingly. I was so blown away my the house and the whole industry that surrounded Elvis Presley Enterprises in the immediate area. I’m not sure it exists elsewhere. I even visited again with my wife about 5 years ago. I’ll take my kids when they are old enough to appreciate schlock and kitsch and Elvis in general. Maybe the will find a trove of…
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Top Ten things of 2017
We here at Fake Alligator put together a list of the top 10 things in 2017. Trying to steer clear of watches and cars (for the most part) we wanted to showcase the biggest and most exciting things of the year. So without further ado: 10: Damien Hirst’s Venice show: Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable 189 pieces in bronze, marble, malachite, rock crystal, silver and gold. The work took 10 years to produce at a cost of over $65million USD, that’s a few Paul Newman Daytonas. Love him or hate him, this show was the only thing I remember from Venice this year. 9: That fight scene in…
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Da Vinci painting or Paul Newman Daytonas?
Da Vinci? (please say that like Tom Hanks in the trailer 2006 film The Da Vinci Code) The last privately owned Leonardo Da Vinci (of Ninja Turtles fame) painting, Salvator Mundi was auctions off last week at Christie’s in New York. it went for….. $450,312,500 making it the most expensive painting ever sold. Paintings by the old master are rare (less than 20) and finished paintings are ever rarer. While we all hoped the piece would end up in a museums collection, the outrageous price dictates that might not have happened. As of the writing the buyer is still unknown. IS IT REAL? Who knows. Seriously, this work has been beaten…
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10 OTHER ways to spend $17,752,500
So….. Last week saw the sale of Paul Newman’s Paul Newman Daytona for a whopping $17,752,500. If I had that much money I would buy a couple other things instead. In some cases many other things. Here is my top ten list of things one could buy instead of that watch. 10 4 Ferrari Laferrari automobiles @ $4mil each 9 1 Gatsby’s Long Island Mansion at $17mil 8 1365 Late model Rolex Daytonas at $13K each 7 51,012 Artisinal Axes @ 384 each 6 99,175 David Wellington watches $179 each 5 993 2018 Ford Focus at $17860 each 4 425 1-KILO Gold Bars $41,733 each 3 17770 iPhone X model phones @999 each…
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Paul Newman’s Horrible Paul Newman Daytona.
Here’s why:
