I think almost everyone has heard of the online car auction site, Bring a Trailer or BAT as it is more commonly known (www.bringatrailer.com). I have been a subscriber for years and faithfully read the daily newsletter with the latest auction listings, what auctions are closing that day, and what did or didn’t get sold and for how much the day before. All auctions are posted for seven days and you can set a reserve price, that is unless it is a set of wheels as I was wanting to sell. They don’t allow reserves on wheels.
day so they sat in the garage taking up space but the time came to move them out. They were not in the best of shape so I looked in to getting them refinished before selling them. I got a quote from Greens Automotive in Richmond for just under $1500 and they were experienced in refinishing Fuchs. After researching past sales of sets of Fuchs on BAT I was quite confident I could get at least $2000 USD so I would at least clear a $1,000 CDN. For once the exchange rate would work in my favour. So I went ahead and got I have had a set of 911 15 x 7 & 8 inch Fuchs wheels them done and they looked fantastic when I got them for a number of years, they came with my long gone back. 1986 Carrera. I thought I may make use of them some Then I went online and filled in the form and sub-
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