Not the Popemobile, mind you - no, this is the car that the late Karol Józef Wojtyla drove around Krakow as Bishop, before the the College of Cardinals made with the big white smoke back in '78. Jim Rich bought the thing back in 1996 for $102k, and now, after some financial woes, he's hoping to cash in on his holiness' recent passing, made all the more poignant in the memories of the faithful by the ascension of the less-than-glamourous Benedict XVI. ("I knew Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II was a friend of mine. Your Eminence, you're no Pope John Paul II.") Plans for an auction, however, are stalled as Jerome Rich turns his countenance even further away from the Lord as he bars his son from entering the very restaurant he's trying to save with the proceeds from the sale of one very special 1975 Ford Escort GL. [via the cooler-than-bein-cool, ICE COLD BB]
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