Epic rural Iowa car auction tells the story of a farmer who lived life at 100 miles per hour

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YARMOUTH, Ia. — Bob Gabeline couldn’t slow down even in the last several miles to his own gravesite. He hot-rodded his way to the tiny rural cemetery where he was planted among the cornfields that had yielded his fortune.

The patriarch of a family farm, trucking and grain elevator empire in southeast Iowa — and the man behind a massive auction Monday through Friday drawing worldwide interest — was 86 when he died in September.

Since Gabeline was a manic car and tractor collector who loved to customize everything on wheels, of course there was no drab standard hearse to haul him in his funeral procession.

No, this car nut's black-and-chrome coffin was loaded into the back of a 1937 Ford funeral car painted bright red.

His youngest of four children, Dan, climbed behind the wheel with his wife, Amy, riding shotgun...

Read more at: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/06/24/epic-rural-iowa-car-auction-tells-story-farmer-who-lived-life-100-miles-per-hour/411145001/?hootPostID=ef67bdf4f5274bce9e694a0f62af8c23

Auction site listing: http://www.sullivanauctioneers.com/auction/huge-collector-car-antique-tractor-collection-2/

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Much more at the link, tons of barn find cars. Tractors, memorabilia, and parts. A virtual museum of autos.