Now I know you appreciate the hard grind I put in for you attending collector car auctions around the world. It's tough. Free champagne, glamorous persons of all sexes and even better looking, legendary pieces of multi-million-dollar metal.
Look, quite frankly, part of the reason I take on this burden is that we don't have any similar events in Australia. But now our man, the Trumpster, is coming into the top job everything is changing for the better. Not only is the Don a super entrepreneur, he is also a petrol head. Yes, the Trumpster loves metal. He's owned Rolls Royce Phantoms, Mercedes McLarens and Lambo Diabolos to name just three.
And the Trumpster effect has already had an impact right here in Port Melbourne, the suburb where fun normally goes to die. At 2.30pm on Sunday, November 27, at Srecko Lorbek's supercar showroom, Mossgreen is auctioning off one of the best collection of cars, bike and auto stuff since Briggsy put his Fremantle car museum under the hammer.
There are serious Lancias, a couple of Fezzers, a super Sunbeam Alpine Le Mans replica, a beautiful 1929 Matchless Silver Arrow, a 1934 Lagonda Rapide, which at $250,000 will be sold to a European buyer, a 2007 Dodge Viper FIA-GT3 for $120,000, and the star of the show for me, the 1930s Chamberlain 8 racer which at $350,000 is easy pickings for a US buyer.