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This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories.

And we tell stories about everything here on this show from the arts

to sports and from history to business and today's feature is from Barry

McGuire the CEO of his third-generation family company McGuire which is the

largest car care products company in the country he told us about purchasing his

favorite car one that he was trying to buy

just because he wanted a car from the same year that his family's company was founded.

1901.

So I found this 1901 car at auction. They have these classic car auction where they sell nothing

with old cars. That's why I'll be next week. I'll be at the same where I bought this. And there's seven other auctions going on at the same time. They're huge. Probably $150 million worth of the cars we sold this week in Scottsdale. $160 there now, Vard. Sold them $163.5. It's a crazy marketplace.

So I saw this in the brochure and I decided I'd like to get it.

And I was at another auction and friends that were at the auction where this was,

I said, would you buy it for me? But here's my limit. I want to go over this amount.

So by the time I get there, they just bought the car,

and they paid more than I wanted for it, fortunately, because I wouldn't have bought it.

The number one car collector in the world is a guy named Everett Lauman. He has the Lawnum

Museum. It's on the grounds of the Queen in the Hague in Holland. The collection itself and

the cars and the building is probably worth a billion dollars. This guy, he knows every,

he is the expert on collector cars. He could buy anything he wants. And he had picked out this

car as one he wanted to buy. And it turned out that when he went in to buy it and it just got off the block, he just missed it. I got it. He would have out bid me. He would have got the car, but I got it. So he comes out. He says, who bought this car? He said, Barry, he looked at me as he knows I'm in these kind of cars. I'm not in these cars. I'm not in these cars. Barry, you bought this car? Yeah. And he's looking at, he says, oh, I'm so jealous. Oh, this is hilarious. He could buy this with pocket change. I mean, this is a nothing car. He's got cars that are worth 20, whatever,

million dollars, you know. He said, I have this car, but it's not correct. This one's

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