This '80s Rolls-Royce up for auction could be a real-life version of 'The Homer'

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This '80s Rolls-Royce up for auction could be a real-life version of 'The Homer'
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OK, this pistachio-green British family truckster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon%27s_Vacation#Wagon_Queen_Family_T ruckster) might **t quite be as crazy as "The Homer (http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer)," but it's close.

SEE ALSO: BMW promises auto**mous, electric flagship for 2021 called iNext (http://mashable.com/2016/05/13/2021-bmw-inext/)


This 1983 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Estate is headed to auction (https://auctionata.com/en-us/o/225958/rolls-royce-silver-spirit-estate-rarity-model-year-1983) May 20 in Berlin, Germany. And, amazingly, its wagon body isn't its wildest feature.

First off, **: Rolls-Royce never made a wagon. The car was commissioned in 1983 for a private buyer in Britain who used it to tow his race car. (We should be so lucky, right?)

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If that weren't mad e**ugh, he also had the 6.75-liter V8 engine converted to run **t on gasoline but rather propane instead — for some reason. Perhaps he did it for better eco**my? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/16/rolls-royce-estate-auction/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


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