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"  In what&amp;#039;s become a ritual in the Pruett household on Thanksgiving, especially during those hours while the food is cooking, paying a visit to eBay to kill time and peruse some of the silly automotive- and racing-themed items up for bid is guaranteed to bring a few laughs. Using the search criteria of &amp;quot;IndyCar&amp;quot; and sorted with the &amp;quot;Prices: Highest First&amp;quot; option, more than 10,000 items appeared. The first that caught my eye was: Chevrolet IRL Indy car engine Gen 3: For a cool $15,000, you can take home a 2003-2011 era IndyCar Series engine. With upwards of 700 hp at just over 10,000 rpms on tap, the 3.5-liter mill is actually a bargain if you&amp;#039;re in need of a somewhat light racing engine with a low center of gravity. You&amp;#039;ll need to buy the electronics and headers separately, but if you&amp;#039;ve always wanted to build the ultimate Track Day or Time Attack car, the cost-to-performance ratio with this Bowtie powerplant is hard to beat.  Indy 500 Franchitti Car Original Art Painting Dan Byl Investment Collector XXL: I realize that art is hard to judge, but if this is worth the $4000 the artist is asking for, I&amp;#039;m quitting this writing thing, ordering art supplies and joining this new &amp;#039;paint while blindfolded&amp;#039; movement that&amp;#039;s apparently going on.  Red IndyCar Game Chair with Stool: Offered by seller &amp;quot;MarciaTreasures&amp;quot; for $2150, the buying instructions come with a mandate that bidder must either be single or looking for the perfect piece of racing-inspired furniture to spark a divorce.  1980 to 1981 Pontiac Indy or Nascar Pace Car Turbo Mag: Are you a CEO with gobs of money to burn and an unbridled love for the movie &amp;#039;Smokey and the Bandit&amp;#039;? Here&amp;#039;s the perfect opportunity to pay a ridiculous sum \u2013 $1979.98 \u2013 to make whatever you drive look like the Bandit&amp;#039;s Pontiac Firebird. Two grand for four Pontiac wheels? How is that not eBay&amp;#039;s equivalent of a Black Friday door buster?  Original Helmet Used by Patrick Lemari\u00E9 2003 IndyCar Test Pollock Kalkhoven Racing: If you&amp;#039;re a fan of the obscure and utterly average, surely you remember French race car driver Patrick Lemarie. Who could forget the thrilling pair of 10thplace finishes he earned to start the 2003 Champ Car season for the PKV team\u2026before he was sacked\u2026by his manager\u2026who co-owned the team. Well, if you want to breathe in the sweaty essence of Lemarie and don&amp;#039;t mind sending $1550 to a seller in France, you can take home Patrick&amp;#039;s pastel lid that was used during the first two events of a Champ Car career that lasted all of six races.  Car Postcard Autographed: Bobby Unser: Indy 500 1981: At first, I assumed this was just a case of the seller having a poor grasp of decimal placement. Unser, the cantankerous 3-time Indy 500 winner, is a beloved member of the IndyCar community, and one who makes himself available for numerous autograph signings throughout the year. Which makes the selling price of $1499.99 for an Unser-signed postcard sound like a typo\u2014a $14.99 item, for sure, right? The seller even declares its shoddy condition (&amp;quot;Well used, marks, bent corners, wrinkles, marks&amp;quot;) giving further rise to the belief it&amp;#039;s something you could buy for a $20 bill with shipping. But towards the bottom of the page, we quickly find that the seller, owner of &amp;#039;AAA Historical Americana \u2013 World Exonumia&amp;#039; believes he&amp;#039;s happened upon a cash cow and has indeed set the price at almost that of an authentic Patrick Lemarie helmet for a signed Bobby Unser postcard\u2026 (And trust me, if you want Uncle Bobby to sign something, let me know\u2026it will only cost you the price of a stamp to send it to him in New Mexico.)  Tony Bettenhausen Piece of Car Fatal Accident 1961 Indy: Looks like eBay has turned me on to another income generator. The description reads: &amp;quot;Up for auction is a very unique piece of Indy 500 memorabilia. It is a piece of Tony Bettenhausen&amp;#039;s car that he was driving when he had his fatal accident in 1961. Comes nicely displayed in an acrylic shadowbox. Piece was obtained from C McCord Purdy a well known collector of Indy 500 race memorabilia.&amp;quot; I guess I&amp;#039;d also all into the &amp;#039;well known collector of Indy 500 race memorabilia&amp;#039; category, and like the original seller, have the ability to pick up small pieces of metal off the ground, mount them to a plaque, tape my business card to the top and add thoroughly unverifiable claim of the metal&amp;#039;s origin to the base. Want a piece from the hull of the Titanic? A rivet off the Apollo 11? A bolt once used on a car driven by Ayrton Senna? If the guy selling this small and randomly macabre &amp;quot;2-3/4\u2033 X 4\u2033 section of aluminum gets the $999.99 he&amp;#039;s asking, I&amp;#039;ll be flooding the market with whatever I can score from the dumpster at my local Home Depot.  SUPER RARE ORIGINAL LEAD SKETCH FROM JEFF ANDERSON OF A MERCEDES INDY STYLE CAR: I&amp;#039;ll go ahead and fix the title for this item: A GUY YOU&amp;#039;VE NEVER HEARD OF WHO ISN&amp;#039;T AN ARTIST USED A PENCIL TO DRAW A RACECAR THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING YOU DID IN HIGH SCHOOL WHILE WAITING FOR RECESS. You can take this &amp;#039;SUPER DETAILED&amp;#039; beauty home for $999.95.  Elk Lighting 5082/2 Indy Race Car Pendant in Satin Nickle Finish: Do you have low ceilings? Looking for new and inventive ways to bleed from your head? Fork over the $225 for this (F1 car posing as an) IndyCar overhead light that&amp;#039;s sure to make dad&amp;#039;s scalp look like a SAFER Barrier, thanks to the sharp edges on this ill-conceived item.  Clean Vintage Indy Home of the 500 Ringer T-Shirt 1970&amp;#039;s Car 74 Indianapolis: Your chance to spend $180 on a t-shirt has finally arrived.   IndyCar Racing -BRAND NEW-Vintage PC Game-3.5\u2033 Disk-Papyrus: And finally, for today, that&amp;#039;s right friends. Take a trip down video game memory lane with this classic, first-generation copy of IndyCar Racing. Still have a computer that uses floppy discs? Can&amp;#039;t be bothered to upgrade to Windows 98? Here&amp;#039;s the racing game for you. &amp;quot;A BRAND NEW, still in shrink wrap copy of this popular vintage PC game from Papyrus. This version comes with the 3.5\u2033 disks. The quality of the packaging and box are MINT. You will be pleased.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ll be even more pleased to learn this source of endless entertainment will only set you back $129.99, or roughly quadruple what the game originally sold for. And right after you&amp;#039;ve used the &amp;#039;Buy It Now&amp;#039; option to take this sucker home, be sure to e-mail eBay&amp;#039;s customer support team and ask them to cancel the transaction because the same game was available for 4 bucks here\u2026 Related posts:   Man Finds Car on eBay, 42 Years After it was Stolen 1950s Concepts Auctioned on Ebay Kate Middleton&amp;#039;s Used VW Golf Headed to eBay 2011 eBay People&amp;#039;s Picks Winners \u2013 2011 SEMA Show Ryan Hunter-Reay Finds Speed \u2013 Trackside at Indy 2012  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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