eBay find.

Most car enthusiasts would love to have a large garage, Leno-esque size, so that they could over time acquire their dream cars and collect memorabilia. If you had enough land you could choose to have a warehouse type garage, like an small aircraft hangar, with enough height to hang big stuff from the wall... yes, you know where I am going with this.

Just yesterday I stumbled across a story on Dragzine about Kenny Bernstein's famous '85 Ford Tempo Funny Car body for sale on eBay. It is being auctioned by the Darrel Gwynn Foundation and at the time that I am writing this, it still hasn't received any bids. It has an opening bid of $14,999 (pictured on the right) and if I had sufficient height in my garage, I'd seriously consider acquiring it.. or at least biding on it.

Kenny @1985 Nitro, at Milan, MI

Are you kidding? This is the very same car in which Kenny "the King" Bernstein won the 1985 NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series Funny Car Championship in. He also set an e.t. record of 5.569 seconds to the 1/4 mile mark (1,000 ft hadn't been introduced yet), won 38 elimination rounds, and scored eight national event wins combined in the NHRA and IHRA that year. As this all wasn't enough, he also won his sponsor's bonus race, the Big Bud Shootout, at Indianapolis. In those days, I always rooted for Kenny.

There is one catch though, the buyer must agree to use the body solely for display/collectable purposes and not be utilized in competition.

Click here to go to the eBay action page.

Thanks for reading.

Sources: Dragzine.com, Wikipedia
Photo credit: Michael Beach