First up, and in the seller's own words: a ''genuine glass chip from James Dean's wrecked Spyder''. That's right: You can own a tiny shard of glass — smaller than a penny — from the mangled wreckage of the Porsche 550 Spyder that James Dean was driving when he died in a head-on collision with another car on Sept. 30, 1955. The item's provenance? Some handwritten documents — copies of which will be sent to the buyer — from previous owners. (Sale ends Feb. 5, starting bid is $225)
There's probably a good story behind the next item, an unused ticket to a ''Music and Art Fair'' that took place during the summer of 1969 on a dairy farm near — okay, 40 miles outside of — Woodstock, N.Y. What's interesting is that the $8 ticket (now protectively sandwiched between two slabs of Lucite) was only good for Sunday, Aug. 17, the last scheduled day of the festival. Which — as any one of the nearly 10 million quinquagenarians who still shamelessly claim to have been there can tell you — actually spilled over to the following day. (Sale ends Feb. 4, starting bid is $49.99)
A seller from South Carolina has decided to part with a Nintendo NES console — as well as each and every one of the 670(!) NES games that Nintendo ever licensed. It's a truly amazing collection — the videogame equivalent of all suddenly coming up for sale. If you're the kind of person who gets excited by titles like Bubble Bobble 2 or Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur Peak or Zombie Nation and happens to have 20 large lying aroundÂ… (Sale ends Feb. 7, current bid is $21,211)
For a mere $50,000, you can own the exclusive rights to a yet-to-be-produced music-themed TV reality show. The seller provides no other details but is willing to concede that this mystery show ''has the potential to be bigger than American Idol.'' Just like I have the potential to have tiny hominids take flight as they emerge from my posterior. (Sale ends Feb. 4, Buy-It-Now price of $50,000)
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