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All Those Grills Helped George Foreman Build Quite The Car Collection
All Those Grills Helped George Foreman Build Quite The Car Collection-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:52

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Get your checkbooks ready: you have a chance to own something interesting from the personal car collection of George Foreman. Yes, heavyweight champion, Olympic gold medalist and purveyor of kitchen grills bought by millions George Foreman is auctioning pieces of through Hagerty.

The vehicle collection spans over 50 cars and is being offered with no reserve. Foreman has apparently been a car enthusiast for a long time, which is something that I wish I’d known years ago. Foreman said in a :

I have been a car collector and enthusiast most of my life, but the time has come for me to share my cars with other like-minded enthusiasts. Being able to offer them to the more than million-strong Hagerty audience is the best way to ensure they get the attention they deserve.

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The collection is described as being “unique and diverse” and that’s certainly true. The earliest car in the collection is a 1931 Ford Model A Cabriolet A400 with the latest being first gen 2005 Ford GT. That’s among other offerings like a Bentley Azure convertible and a 991 Porsche 911 Turbo. The great stuff though are the cars you wouldn’t expect to see.

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Take this 1998 VW New Beetle with an insane flame/leopard print paint job on the front facia called “Bugzilla”. If you’re wondering why Foreman would put such a unique paint job on a Beetle, he didn’t. According to Foreman, he got the car from none other than Dennis Rodman, which explains a lot. There’s just over 5,000 miles on this thing. It’s not all perfect though. The auction says it’s not running as it’s been sitting in a climate controlled garage for 10 years and certain pieces are worn, like a sagging exhaust and drooping headliner. As of this writing the current bid for this thing is just $400.

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How about a Chevy Impala SS? Not just any SS though. This is an eighth gen 2004 Impala SS which is a generation of Impala you don’t really see customized. This has a two town black and red paint job, Alpine sound system with 7-inch retractable display inside and custom 18-inch wheels. It’s pretty much a rolling time capsule of early 2000’s car mods. The 3.8-liter supercharged V6 remains stock however. With just 551 miles on it, it’s also near new.

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There’s other great cars you don’t see in many collections anymore, like a C4 Callaway Twin-Turbo Corvette Convertible, a1995 Saleen Mustang S351 Convertible, five Cadillac’s from the late 1950s-1960s, a 1970 Plymouth Cuda and a bone stock 2002 Porsche Boxster with a five speed manual.

If you’re interested in any of these you’d better act fast. Most of the cars have bids on them and a few have already sold. And with no reserve, Hagerty shouldn’t have any trouble selling every single car.

Note: Hagerty clarified to us that not everything that’s listed is part of Foreman’s collection. Only cars listed with “The George Foreman Collection” are part of his collection. The other vehicle such as the Cuda, the Cadillacs and the Porsche are listed by others.

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