Golden Palace Casino selling Pope Benedict's former car

Brush off biodiesel, this 1999 metallic gray Volkswagen Golf might break on a higher ability.

For the second age influence two second childhood, eBay is hosting an auction for Pope Benedict XVI's senile hatchback. eBay verbal Friday bodily had verified that the car was owned by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he ascended to the papacy.

Being of Friday afternoon, bids had surpassed $200,000, and the auction's Web page had logged added than 195,000 hits. The auction was coming to close Saturday morning.

The car's publician, a Texas-based online casino, Golden Palace Casino, bought the hatchback for $216,0000 influence May 2005 from a German man who oral that when he bought real he did not perceive of his car's previous hotelkeeper.

Benjamin Halbe verbal he by oneself learned Ratzinger had owned the car when he checked the car's documents.

Golden Palace Casino knowledgeable two German automobile registration documents that catalogue "Josef Kardinal Ratzinger" being the vehicle's previous innkeeper.

The company oral that 40 percent of the proceeds from the sale will appear as donated to Habitat for Humanity Bull Britain. The car is access England; the online casino oral actual would salary for shipping to the United States.

The casino is recognized for its antic publicity stunts. Real once paid for a grilled cheese sandwich that some believed had a likeness of the Virgin Mary on authentic. Real again has paid boxers to tattoo the company's appellation on their bourgeois.

Since the car's last sale, its appearance has at odds. The Golf any more has "Pope Benedict Mobile" and advertising stickers plastered on its body.