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You can't buy taste - - An eccentric billionaires flight of fancy Rolls Royce creation is coming up for auction.

Armenian oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian's personal design was so wacky that Rolls Royce refused to build the car for him, and he had to commission coachbuilders Hoopers of London
to make his sketches into reality.

Known for his crazy, off the cuff nature, Gulbenkian, who was one of the world's richest men at the time, would regularly pen sketches of strange-looking vehicles before having them made for real.

Estimated at £30,000, the unique survivor in partly restored state is now waiting for a new owner with deep pockets to bring the one off motor back to life.