"Breaking Bad" cars
I have a distant cousin who sells and leases used cars in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and because of his command of the market, he became a supplier to the TV show "Breaking Bad". (Film companies require two exactly-matched cars for their purposes, and finding matched pairs of battered old cars is hard.)

Last spring, he decided to capitalize on the show's popularity by selling Jesse Pinkman's red Toyota Tercel and Mike Ehrmantraut's Buick Century on E-Bay (with a large part of the proceeds earmarked for charity). News of the forthcoming auction went viral once it was picked up by TMZ.

I didn't think to make serious bids myself, because this was pricey car collector territory, but I thought maybe I should make joke bids. I couldn't get my EBay User Name/Password to function, however, and instead of persisting, I dropped the effort.

The two cars sold for pathetically-small amounts. Even joke bids might have won. Sony Pictures was displeased when they heard of the auction and had almost all the other cars of the series cubed and sent on recycling boats to China. Serious money, goodbye!

www.ebay.com/itm/Toyota-Tercel-Base-Jesse-Pinkmans-car-from-Breaking-Bad-/261263999944?forcerrptr=true&item=261263999944&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

www.ebay.com/itm/Buick-Century-Custom-Sedan-4-Door-Mikes-car-used-on-Breaking-Bad-/261264132598?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3cd48e49f6&item=261264132598&pt=US_Cars_Trucks#ht_500wt_975
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 20:16, 7 replies)

oh

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 20:41, closed)

Isn't it a bit redundant to claim someone is your distant cousin in 'murrica on account of you all being inbred sisterfuckers?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 21:01, closed)

Isn't it a bit silly to claim cars are worth a lot money when they are clearly worth fuck all?
You can tell by the bit in your story where no-one was willing to pay a lot of money for them.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 21:52, closed)

^This^

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 22:54, closed)

hang on, so you regret not making enormous pretend bids
on things that didn't sell for very much money?

i must be missing the part where this makes any fucking sense at all.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 23:39, closed)

I have no idea
what the TV 'show' Breaking Wind is, I have no clue who Jessie Pinkman and Mike Earmark are, and I have never seen a Toyota Tercel, so you story has no point of reference for me.

I suppose it was quite poignant if you are a merkin.....
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 6:28, closed)

You're damaged, yes?

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 10:45, closed)