(FoxNews) – An ultra-rare 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible is set to cross the
block at the Mecum Auctions event in Seattle on Saturday, June 14th, just in time for pop’s special day that Sunday.

One of only two built for the U.S. that year with a 4-speed manual transmission and Mopar’s legendary 426/425 hp V8 engine, the immaculately restored drop-top has
a numbers-matching motor and nearly all of its original bodywork intact.

The car also features a Shaker hood, Dana 60 rear end with 4.10 Super Track Pak,
26-inch radiator, power brakes and a backstory almost as colorful as its Bright Blue 
paint.

According to Mecum, it was purchased new by a “famous cartoonist” who later sold
it to someone in Oregon. Some years later, however, it was confiscated in a drug
bust and ended up at a police auction in 1999, where it went for a then record 
price of $410,000.

Marilyn Monroe with Marlon Brando

A pair of clip-on rhinestone earrings formerly owned by Marilyn Monroe has sold 
at an auction for $185,000. Julian’s Auctions said the actress wore the jewelry in 
1955 when she attended the opening of "The Rose Tattoo,"

McNamara’s 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe with 390hp 427-cu.in. V-8 Eng.

A 1967 Corvette with just 2,996 miles and a new car smell could fetch $800,000
next month at Mecum Auctions in Huston, Texas.

The coupe was purchased in 1966 by 30-year-old Don McNamara of Colorado
Springs, with $5,000 he won on a trip he made to Las Vegas to celebrate his
retirement from the U.S. Marines.

McNamara died in 2011 and left his estate to his neighbors, who discovered the
car parked in his garage under a shipping blanket along with both American and 
Marine Corps flags.

The Rothschild Prayer book

NEW YORK (AP) — A Renaissance prayer book has sold for $13.6 million,
just short of the auction record set 15 years ago for an illuminated manuscript.

Christie’s auction house says the Rothschild Prayer book was purchased
Wednesday by a private collector bidding by telephone.

The ornately illustrated Book of Hours sold in 1999 at Christie’s London for
$13.4 million to a European collector.

It was commissioned around 1505 by a member of the imperial court of the
Netherlands. It entered the Rothschild family collection in the 19th century.

The 150-page book features full-page color drawings, called miniatures, by
leading masters of illumination.

The manuscript was part of a collection of Nazi-confiscated treasures that
was returned to the Rothschild banking dynasty by the Austrian government
in 1999.

Bob Dylan “went electric” when he plugged in his Fender Strocaster guitar for the
first time at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. The guitar was sold Friday at auction
for a record $965,000. It had been in the possession of a New Jersey family for 
nearly 50 years. Dylan left it on a private plane piloted by the owner’s late father.

Five lots of hand- and typewritten lyric fragments found inside the guitar case were
also sold.

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