"New" pic of 072?

[mini magic]

EDIT: BRAIN FREEZE. OBVIOUSLY I MEANT 072

Stumbled across this on DuPontRegistry's facebook....

(check the back corner )

[mini magic]

More of the garage:

[hurstg01]

#072?
EDIT just saw your edit Nice collection, good find!

[Peloton25]

I've seen the story of this garage with that giant elevator before. Let me see if I can find it.

Good spot btw - that probably is #072 unless someone else was just inspired by it? Putting the car in the corner like that doesn't bode well for it ever getting out of there to stretch its legs though.

Fixed the title for you.

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ER

[hurstg01]

That is some lift, and some garage. Any more info on it?

[Peloton25]

"Let me see if I can find it."

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ER

[Peloton25]

Well actually that didn't take too long:





<-- Click to read

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[Peloton25]

Little flashback for you Chris:

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/sho...#post138733797

You even figured out what car it was going to be.

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ER

[mini magic]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Little flashback for you Chris:

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/sho...&postcount=283

You even figured out what car it was going to be.

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ER

Apparently i'm 1 step ahead even when i don't know it

[Peloton25]

Was looking back through the previous info I had on the car. One item was this brief article written shortly after Thomas' untimely death. I think the section in bold ties it all together if you read the article posted above.

Dec 6th, 2001-
High-tech entrepreneur Thomas Gonzales, who launched one of the Internet's brightest stars before the dot-com flameout, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 35.

Gonzales co-founded Commerce One Inc., a Pleasanton company that made software designed to allow businesses to buy and sell products online. He remained Commerce One's chief technology officer until earlier this year.

"He was very proud of what he had created, of what became Commerce One," said Mark Biestman, a company senior vice president who gave Gonzales one of his prized possessions, a black cape bearing a gold letter "f" for founder.

After the company went public in mid-1999, Commerce One's stock soared, reaching its peak closing price of $135.63 in early 2000. The stock plunged along with the Internet economy over the past year. The shares closed at $3.41 Thursday.

Gonzales' estate owns about 1 percent of the company, worth roughly $10 million.

Gonzales is survived by his father Tom Gonzales of Incline Village; his mother Betty Baker of Oroville; and two brothers, Joel Gonzales of Pleasant Hill and Bernie Baker Jr. of Oroville.

A quick Google search finds this article from 2005 about the potential sale of his estate in Incline Village. I'll quote the relevant section:

...and an oversize garage, geared to the car collector, which features an industrial elevator that can lift cars.

So it would appear the info we've had all along has been true. The family has retained the car and it is in storage in the Western USA. Looks like they still have his F50 too (front left in the 'covered' shot). Curiosity leaves me wondering when those duPont pictures may have been taken. There aren't any cars in the pictures that are newer than this article, so it does leave one to wonder.

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[Peloton25]

A little extra research pays off. Here's a clip from the VH1 special with a very brief glimpse of #072:

VH1 - The Fabulous Life - Sierra Star

Seems the home may still be for sale, though no telling whether it may have changed hands sometime in these past 5 years. At an asking price of $60-65M there aren't going to be too many qualified buyers.

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[Peloton25]

"Wow, I should go drive one of the two R8s I own," said Tom Gonzales, explaining that all of the cars in his expansive collection have zero miles on their odometers.

Well that's certainly disappointing.

Taken from here: Robb Report Car of the Year 2008: Jury of Your Peers

From another article about his boat company 'Shadow Marine':

"Tom owns 400 cars, motor buses, RV’s, airplanes, helicopters and a submarine."

Wow!

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[hurstg01]

Vid now added to the Video thread.

As for who are the Gonzalez family and where does their wealth come from - read here

[F1FREAKZILLA]

Eric is this the car that was at the BlackHawk Museum for a bit

[Peloton25]

Yes, indeed the same one.

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ER