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14<br />

His most ambitious project to date has been the microcar collection<br />

<strong>RM</strong> auctions has the privilege of presenting without reserve at auction<br />

this February.<br />

after being intrigued by his first microcar in the early-1990s, Bruce<br />

approached this hobby like he has every other—by educating himself<br />

tirelessly on the subject, conferring with known experts in the field, and<br />

determining what it would take to assemble the finest assortment of<br />

microcars anywhere in the world. To that end, he quite literally chose<br />

the rarest microcars from established resources and endeavored to<br />

discover each and every one, scouring the globe from australia to asia,<br />

visiting reclusive owners, and often times persisting for years on end until<br />

the only example of its kind could be added to his growing collection.<br />

Business trips overseas to his factories in Spain and Germany were<br />

paired with side excursions to literature dealers, eccentric collectors, and<br />

secretive locals, from whom tidbits of information yielded extraordinary<br />

discoveries most considered lost forever. Collapsed barns were raised<br />

in the middle of winter and basement cement walls were literally torn<br />

down in the process.<br />

once each microcar was returned to his facilities, endless hours<br />

of research were dedicated to each car to ensure that its in-house<br />

restoration would be conducted to concours-quality, factory-correct

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