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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 everything in between.

And your stories too.

And now it's time for our My Car series, where our fellow Americans tell stories about

a car that they've once owned.

And today's feature is from Barry McGuire, the CEO of his third-generation family company,

McGuire's, 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 an auction.

They have these classic car auction where they sell nothing but 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 for the cars we sold this week in Scottsdale. $1604 there now, Vard. Sold them $163.5. It's a crazy, 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 only 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 Ebert Lauman. He has the Lawnan 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 collection of 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 outbid 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 in Z cars.

Barry, you bought this car?

Yeah.

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