Beetle mania over German soccer coach Juergen Klinsmann’s old car
Published July 8th, 2006
A 39-year-old Volkswagen Beetle that once belonged to Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann is on sale in a frenzied auction and has surpassed the price of another Volkswagen once owned by Pope Benedict sold a year ago.
The blue 1967 VW convertible that Klinsmann drove in 1994 and 1995 while playing at Tottenham Hotspur has jumped from 105,000 euros to over 300,000 euros ($383,200) in the internet auction eBay.
The car’s owner, who lives in the Stuttgart suburb Boeblingen, wants to remain anonymous but has registration papers that includes “Juergen Klinsmann” as a previous owner, according to the Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper on Saturday.
The price for the auction that began on July 1 and runs to Tuesday is well above the $245,000 an internet casino paid last year for a used Volkswagen Golf owned years earlier by Pope Benedict XVI.
“I really couldn’t recommend bidding for that car,” Klinsmann said at recent news conference. “It was already completely rusty when I got rid of it.”
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