I love collector cars and all that goes with them, and there is a warm place in my heart for a '63 Pontiac as it was the car I learned to drive in, but there is a limit.

Reading through the questions on the auction gives us reason to believe the seller truly didn't know the car's provenance. In his answers, he seems both surprised by the car's potential value as well as overwhelmed by the attention. He turned down an offer of $160,000 to end the auction early because he feared getting negative eBay feedback. That decision paid off. With only seven minutes remaining, the highest offer was $95,000. When the virtual gavel fell, eBayer ccsi2000 had bought a very rare, if a little rusty, LeMans for $226,521.

Patience paid off $$$$$ big time. They use to make some real sleepers back then and before. Today its a whole new game.