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Pontiac parent General Motors built a small number of full-sized cars with clear plastic bodies to showcase their internal parts. One of these a four-door Pontiac, this month turned up at RM Auctions at St. Johns, in Plymouth, Michigan.

The car was built for the 1939-1940 New York Worlds Fair and has a flathead-six under the bonnet and white tyres - not whitewall, the whole tyre is made of white rubber. It does drive and has only 86 miles (138km) on the clock.

After its show duties the car was spirited away to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. where it sat for eight years. It then disappeared - really - into the garages of private collectors in the 1980s.

Now the ghost is back. It will on July 30 be put up for auction by RM Auctions. The price? It's predicted to fetch about $500,000.

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