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02-20-2013, 04:24 PM | #1 |
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Old cars and Neon
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02-20-2013, 04:30 PM | #2 |
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Re: Old cars and Neon
If you have an appreciation for beautiful old signs and cars, I think you'll enjoy it!
Everything in the auction sold for a total of $9.88 million. The Dingman Collection - Old Neon Signs and Great Ford Cars Michael Dingman, who must have had a lot of loose change, put his Ford and Neon Sign collection at auction this June . What you have is a recounting by him of the manner in which the collection occurred and pictures of all. Hope you find it interesting . |
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02-21-2013, 06:56 AM | #3 |
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Wonderful Collection thanks for posting !!
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02-21-2013, 07:51 AM | #4 |
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What did Mr. Dingman do for a living,it must have paid well?? ken ct. Beautiful cars.
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02-21-2013, 08:55 AM | #5 |
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Thank you for posting!
Kinda sad, though - sounds like the collection was auctioned off and is likely scattered to the four winds now - woulda made a nice addition to a museum... |
02-21-2013, 09:22 AM | #6 | |
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Dingman previously was chairman and chief executive officer or president of several major U.S.-based industrial corporations, including Wheelabrator-Frye Inc., Signal Companies Inc., AlliedSignal Inc. and its Henley Group Inc. spinoff. The $1.2 billion Henley public offering in 1986 was the largest in history at the time. He was a wildly successful businessman and investor. Dingman spent 21 years as a member of the board of directors of the Ford Motor Company, and 24 years at Time Inc., and then Time Warner Inc. He has served as a director of Mellon Bank Corp., Temple Industries Inc., Temple-Inland Inc., Continental Telephone Co. and Teekay Shipping Corp. Mr. Dingman is now president of Shipston Group Ltd., a diversified international holding company based in Nassau, Bahamas. Dingman first set his sights to offshore opportunities in the 1990s, first in Russia and other countries in the former Soviet Union. Shipston joined a consortium investing in OAO Sidanco, one of the country’s largest oil companies. Parlaying the experience that had earned him a reputation as a company turnaround expert in America, Dingman invested his own funds, skills and energy to renovate noncompetitive, outdated companies in the Czech Republic. Spurred by his son, Jamie, Dingman shifted Shipston’s focus to China. The company is now heavily invested in mainland China, focusing on its internal growth and consumption. Drawing on local partnerships formed in recent years, Shipston continues to invest in a range of industries. With offices in Nanjing and Beijing, the company has acquired a portfolio of businesses in education, medical technologies and heavy industry. As you can see from his credentials above, he was able to afford the best of the best. Good for him! Meanwhile, the rest of us can just keep buying lottery tickets I guess. Fred
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02-21-2013, 04:29 PM | #7 |
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Re: Old cars and Neon
Mr. Dingman truly had a great collection and I was at the last preview to see it all before it was sold and broken up. With buyers fees included, the 2012 auction (there was also one in 2006), totaled the following for;
signs and nostalgia $9,880,117 vehicles $6,830,450 For the nice sum of $16,710,567 (good weekend for RM Auctions too). Oh, Mr. Dingman is a resident of the Bahamas where he pays no taxes, he has renounced his US citizenship to avoid them. |
07-07-2014, 07:45 PM | #8 |
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