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Article: Howard Hughes' Legacy Car Found.
- Article from:
- Journal of Transportation
- Article date:
- June 20, 2009
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Some believe this car may have the earmarks to set an "automotive auction record" due to the fact that this car was customized when Hughes was in his most creative stage of his life, about 1937.
After a weeklong reunion with the Spruce Goose (H-4 Hercules), the "Aero-Mobile" has left the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville Oregon, and is now being prepared for its departure to the Leake Collector Car Auction in Tulsa Oklahoma. There it will be put on the auction block June 13th 2009. The automobile was acquired in 2005 from a museum owner's estate. It has since been completely restored to the time Hughes had personally customized it. Eyewitness ...