His parents have become naturalized American citizens and run a family automobile auction business in Chicago.

Manheim, Inc. is an automobile auction company.

The result was Kruse International, which now holds 150 antique automobile auctions all over the world, selling more than $200 million worth of cars annually.

They had driven nearly 60 miles from their home in Jersey City primarily to attend an automobile auction just south of Robbinsville.

Although it is billed as an automobile auction, other items are also sold, including trucks, motorcycles, airplanes, engines, boats and other memorabilia.

"Trapping is always a tough death," said Mr. Mannetti, who is a house painter and automobile auction clerk.

During the last weekend of April, the Lyndhurst historic site in Tarrytown will hold its sixth annual antique automobile auction.

"Whatever Air Force is doing, they ought to copy it," Bellino said by telephone from the Boston area, where he works in the automobile auction business.

Mr. Clinton said that ever since his first gubernatorial campaign he had relied for help on Mr. Keathley, who runs an automobile auction business.

"I bought and sold my first car when I was 12 years old," recalls Tom Barrett, the patriarch of what has become the world's largest-grossing automobile auction.

James Martin Rawls, started the nation's first automobile auction, Rawls Auto Auction, in 1941.

It was auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson Automobile Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, on January 18, 2009.

Other events may vary each year but have included a golf tournament, automobile auctions, art and fashion shows, silent auctions of memorabilia, charity raffles and autograph sessions.

Blenheim is home to RM Auctions, the world's largest vintage automobile auction house and RM Restorations, the world's largest vintage automobile restoration company.

Most Mauritanians in the Louisville region arrived after Mr. ould Sidiahmed, who became a successful trader at automobile auctions, sending back word that the region was tolerant and had plenty of jobs.

Mr. Car described how, as an automobile auction manager and a vehicle wholesaler, he had seen middlemen, auctioneers and used-car dealers take most of the proceeds from the sales of cars donated for charity.

Late Monday, the Town Council voted 4-3 to allow the Indianapolis-based Adesa Corporation to open an 82-acre automobile auction business on the site, where used-car dealers will bid on vehicles no longer of use to fleet owners.

Wheels Deals Automobile auctions last week in Monte Carlo offered Ferraris, Bugattis, Maseratis and Jaguars - some of which the auction houses had expected to bring prices comparable to those reached at art auctions.

There also remains the question of how to demarcate the doctors, lawyers and corporate officers who debate the originality of a 1970 Hemi Cuda convertible as it trades hands for six figures at a Pebble Beach automobile auction.

Although it is by no means the only automobile auction nationwide, it attracts the best vehicles - from 1910 Rolls Royces to contemporary Corvettes - and the biggest buyers, including Japanese investors, millionaires in cowboy costume and newly rich young men in navy blazers and rep ties.

It owns one of the nation's largest cable television businesses, which provides internet and telephone, publishes newspapers including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Palm Beach Post, owns and operates broadcast television and radio stations and owns Manheim, an automobile auction firm.

The most common flooring line is either a standard line of credit from a bank that is secured with other collateral such as real estate, or it is a line of credit (MAFS) from the nation's largest automobile auction house Manheim owned by Cox Enterprises.