To-Days Paper, from Big-Bob the Wild Man

Celebrating David Koresh

In the business of collectible automobiles, there is apparently no such thing as a bad celebrity.
Enter David Koresh to make the point. Koresh was a demented, yet charismatic, leader of a small religious cult. He claimed to preach from the Bible, but his addled followers indulged his paranoid stockpiling of armaments and his taste for illegally young girls.

Now Kruse International, the Auburn-based auction company, plans to sell Koresh’s 500-hp Camaro, complete with “David’s 427 Go God” stamped on its engine. Never mind all his followers who gave up their lives, along with Koresh, in a showdown with the federal government in 1993.

What’s next on the block? The scooter ridden by 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta in Cairo? The Volkswagen beetle that serial killer John Wayne Gacy capered out of during his career as a clown? How about the Hot Wheels track Timothy McVeigh played with as a boy, reassembled around a scale model of the wreckage McVeigh made of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
Anything for a buck.