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"With the weekend coming up and the last good driving days of fall above the Mason-Dixon ahead of us, you&amp;#039;re going to want to catch up with your last minute car shopping. We&amp;#039;ve gone through the offerings from the next 10 days of auctions and came up with three entries that would be perfect season-enders (or spring openeners, if you&amp;#039;re in Johannesburg or Buenos Aires). #1. Hemis Under Glass.  Mecum&amp;#039;s Chicago auction will sell four Hemi Barracudas (not &amp;#039;Cudas)  together as a single lot. The &amp;quot;Hemis Under Glass&amp;quot; were rear-engine wheelstanders built by George Hurst and Bob Riggle as exhibition cars, and appeared at major events across North America from 1965-&amp;#039;75. They weren&amp;#039;t particularly fast, but they would--and still do--go down the track at 100 mph, nose in the air and shooting sparks all the way. There&amp;#039;s one for each year, 1966-&amp;#039;69. Plus, Miss Golden Shifter Linda Vaughn was involved so, you know. Linda Vaughn. She&amp;#039;ll be signing autographs at the auction and no, she doesn&amp;#039;t come with the car. There&amp;#039;s no estimate, but you&amp;#039;d think the consignor wants six figures each.  #2. Alfa SZ  It seems trite to say so, but every auction in France really does seem to have more weird and wonderful cars than anywhere else. Take Artcurial&amp;#039;s Automobiles sur les Champs 6 on October 20--there&amp;#039;s a  Ford Taunus wagon, a  Talbot Sunbeam Lotus, a Lamborghini LM002, and a  Matra Jet  . But my pick is the  1991 Alfa Romeo SZ  (Sprint Zagato). With 210 hp from a 3.0-liter V6. With a production run of 1,036 coupes, they were almost instantly collectible. A seriously appealing interior might be misleading, because the thick grab handles and Groupe A suspension and brakes are a clue that a there&amp;#039;s a lot of performance on tap if you want it. Artcurial is thinking \u20AC25,000-35,000, US$33,785-US$47,298, which would be market correct. Buy it now and have a friend in Europe store it until it&amp;#039;s EPA exempted for import in 2016 (that&amp;#039;s only 26 months from now).  #3. Berlin III.  Berlin III is clearly not a car but if it doesn&amp;#039;t do something for you, then we need to have a talk about your gearhead credentials. She was built in 1950 by the BMW Veritas race car people with a 1,998 CC Veritas 321 DOHC alloy straight-six, then upgraded to 328 specification with triple carburetion (which looks like Webers to me) and straight pipes. It&amp;#039;s  at Bonhams October 11 auction  in Knokke Le Zoute, Belgium, with a $240,000-$350,000 estimate. It has a roundel on the tail, seats two and has got to rank among the most beautiful motor vehicles ever conceived.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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