How much would you pay for a slice of modern American history? It’s gory, it’s tragic and it’s morbid, but it’s still a piece of history. For one buyer, the 1965 Chevrolet Impala dubbed the most infamous rental car ever was worth a lot of money.
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What may be the most infamous rental car in history has been sold at auction for $45,000. The 1965 Chevrolet Impala used by Duane Earl Pope during the robbery of the Farmer s State Bank in Big Springs, Neb. (Big Iron Auctions)
The Chevrolet Impala was used by convicted murderer Duane Earl Pope as a getaway vehicle during a deadly bank robbery in Nebraska in 1965.
Pope rented the car from a Hertz in Salina, Kan., with $50 he borrowed from his father. The recent McPherson College graduate said he was heading to Oklahoma to look for work.
Photos courtesy of Chevyland, USA
CLASSIC CAR: About 550 items, including 44 classic Chevy cars such as this 1958 Chevy Impala Tri-Power 2-door Hardtop, are on the auction block from Monte Hollertz’s iconic Chevyland USA museum collection. An iconic I-80 museum is selling several cars that Nebraska farmer Monte Hollertz collected.
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When someone spends their entire lifetime collecting something unique, and they have an obvious passion for that collection, it isn’t often that it comes up for sale.
Monte Hollertz was a south-central Nebraska farmer who had just such a passion for Chevy vehicles. In addition to farming corn and soybeans, he spent his life scoping the country for unique Chevys then took it one step further and opened his iconic “Chevyland USA” museum at Elm Creek along Interstate 80.
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