Bob Russell says he never gave up the search for his beloved心愛的 1967 Austin-Healey. One day in 1970, when he was a student in Philadelphia, he came home after a night out with the woman who's now his wife, and realised his car had vanished消失. Nearly 42 years later Mr Russell was browsing瀏覽 the online marketplace eBay when he spotted something familiar.
All these years he'd kept the car's papers and keys. He searched them out, and saw the vehicle registration number on the website matched the one on the title certificate of his long-lost sports car. He told the police, who tracked the car down to a dealership經銷商 in Los Angeles, and confirmed it was indeed Bob Russell's Austin-Healey.
Mr Russell said he paid $3,000 for it in 1967 - and it's now worth eight times that much. He says though it wasn't the money that made him to search for it for over four decades - what mattered was the sentimental悲傷的 value it held for him and his wife.
All these years he'd kept the car's papers and keys. He searched them out, and saw the vehicle registration number on the website matched the one on the title certificate of his long-lost sports car. He told the police, who tracked the car down to a dealership經銷商 in Los Angeles, and confirmed it was indeed Bob Russell's Austin-Healey.
Mr Russell said he paid $3,000 for it in 1967 - and it's now worth eight times that much. He says though it wasn't the money that made him to search for it for over four decades - what mattered was the sentimental悲傷的 value it held for him and his wife.
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