Filed under: Auction Action, Mitsubishi
eBay Find of the Day: WTF?!?! The Nail Polish Art Car for $60k
This 1996 Mitsubishi Mirage just finished a stint on eBay and somehow failed to get a single bid at its opening price of $60,000. Wow, that's a shocker. Surely that was a typo, no? Maybe $6,000? Nope. The seller was really hoping to get 60 large for this colorful coupe. Here's the back story. South Carolina resident Yvonne Millner decided her little car needed a little something extra to give it a distinctive look. So she started painting it with designs that she thought might bring smiles to strangers who saw it. And "Smiley" was born. The paint of choice for this hospital worker and mother of three was nail polish. Wanting a variety of colors and permanence, it was the perfect choice. And so The Nail Polish Art Car blossomed. Millner has gotten a lot of attention with the car and even did a spot on the Montel Williams show. Offering the vehicle as a folk art piece rather than a crappy old Mirage with nearly 160,000 miles on the clock, it sadly still failed to attract interest. It has already resurfaced with a "buy it now" price of half the original reserve. The auction is now set up as a "Make an offer" sale and has about 6 days left. Frankly, we wouldn't pay $6 for it. Tons more pics on the sale page.
Thanks for the tip, Mike!
[Source: eBay]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mike 11:11AM (2/20/2007)
I bet the toxic fumes from the nail polish fried quite a few brain cells, causing her to believe that this hunk of crap was worth 60K!!
It's not her fault though. She should sue the nail polish manufacturers...she'll get more than her 60K!
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sb 11:14AM (2/20/2007)
looks like someone vomited on the car
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Tim UF 12:12PM (2/20/2007)
I'm sure the seller is just trying to recoupe the redonkulous ammount of money spent on enough nailpolish to cover AN ENTIRE CAR, even if it is the diminutive Mirage.
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akintz 12:18PM (2/20/2007)
Would it even be legal to drive? It looks like the airbags are blown.
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Fred 12:20PM (2/20/2007)
You would have to PAY ME to own that junk, and pay for a new paint job.
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Adam 12:34PM (2/20/2007)
That's hilarious, the air bags are blown!
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Adam 12:34PM (2/20/2007)
That's hilarious, the air bags are blown!
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Aki 1:04PM (2/20/2007)
I don't think you can find a more fitting time to say "you can't polish a turd."
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sk 1:18PM (2/20/2007)
What's even more hilarious, two offers on that pos.
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Chris 3:44PM (2/20/2007)
Delusions of grandure.
I bet the car is going to smell of fat woman too...
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Jeremy 4:53PM (2/20/2007)
Well hey, at lest they lowered the price now to 30k. That makes a lot more sense. I mean, I would never spend 60k on a car worth 1200 that you can't legally sell with deployed airbags, but I would definitely consider buying it for 30k. I better hurry up and place my bid. Wait? Are you able to sell your car if the air bags are deployed?
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Jro 5:03PM (2/20/2007)
Deployed airbags... Nice!!!
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fd 6:37PM (2/20/2007)
... I feel sick after looking at the other images ...
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robz4 11:28PM (2/20/2007)
Is that in Mexican pesos ? No...wait...still way too much
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Ebay Cars 9:58PM (3/28/2007)
What she was thinking while she was painting it? It's a good way to sell cars on eBay, though this one seems different. Just an opinion, you could have use great patterns when painting your car, and you can also use news paper and tapes to cover some parts of your car to avoid spills... even though I would rather search for a diffrent car sale on ebay I am sure I can find something better.
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realistic 2:34AM (5/28/2007)
you mean someone was stupid enough to pay $60K for this p.o.s.!?!? wow.. goes to show there are people out there with more money than brains.. nothing new mind you, as these "collecter car auctions" are proof.. people paying upwards of $90K on old cars.. i love the old muscle cars and such as much as the next guy.. but hundreds of thousands for an old car that only looks good but gets stomped by a honda civic on the street is not something worth more than $1600, restored or not and regardless if it was some "ground pounder" muscle car. back then the numbers were flywheel not pavement.. you'd be lucky to have a 100hp to the pavement car.. handled like crap and only looked nice. it's time to get over the past and move on.. this is why we're held back in advancement in things..
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