Forgive me if I get a little silly over this but to a humble writer the idea of owning ernest hemingway's 1929 Rolls-Royce is hugely appealing. I only hope I win the lottery (any lottery) before June 03 as the car will be sold at the Kruse International Auburn Spring MotorFair on that date. I can imagine the talent that flowed through his fingertips passing into mine each time I drive the car. Fame and fortune at last! Unbelievable though it may seem, a friend who was a serious writer and much more schooled in literature than me once said that I wrote like Hemingway. I was flattered, of course, but in truth had never read his books and besides, I lack the ability to create fiction (although a few ex-girlfriends might disagree).

The great one's car is described by Sports Car Market, our source for this article, as "a highly-desirable 1929 Phantom II Short-Coupled Saloon that has been kept in storage for the past 20 years and is in pristine condition. Hemingway toured the United States in it, during a period when he wrote A Farewell to Arms, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories and Death in the Afternoon." Incidentally the car's next owner was Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton.

"Writes like Hemingway, spends like Hutton." Remind you of anyone you know? Uh... I didn't think so.