Futuristic car of the Fifties finds a place in history
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The cars are owned by a Japanese collector, who paid about dollars 18m (pounds 12.5m) to assemble the set in 1990.
They are to be sold by Coys of Kensington at Silverstone in July and are expected to make dollars 4m (pounds 2.8m).
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