Genevieve fetches $743,000
NZPA Sydney A Western Australian vintage car collector yesterday paid sAustsBo,ooo ($743,096) at auction for the Durracq runabout Genevieve, star of the film of the same name. The car was part of the collection sold by the family of the late George Gilltrap, who moved the collection from Rotorua to Queensland’s Gold Coast in the 1950 s after a battle with Wellington bureaucrats over importing Genevieve from Britain. Mr Paul Terry bought the car for the top price paid at the auction on the Gold Coast yesterday and will keep it in his private collection in Albany. Mr Gilltrap died in 1966 and after his wife, Kathleen, died last year their two sons and daughter decided to sell some of the care in the collection.
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