LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Car collector Ron Morgan decided his garage was incomplete without vehicles once owned by Elvis Prestley .and Robin “Mork” Williams.

But his bidding methods were somewhat unorthodox during the recent Rick Cole Celebrity Car Auction at the Universal Sheraton Hotel.

Morgan, 46, from Santa Ana, Calif., won the*final bid on Williams’ 1978 Land Rover by jumping on the hood of the vehicle and threatening to run up the bidding.

One minute later, the bidding stopped at $4,700 and he was the owner of the four-wheel-drive vehicle. The actor-comedian even threw in a pair of his “Mork” suspenders.

But Morgan had to ante up more than $15,000 for a 1967 Ford pickup truck once owned by Presley.

Pleased with his chases, Morgan

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More than $1 million was bid for automobiles gathered for the Cole Auction. But several went unclaimed. .,

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TORONTO (UPC) - Volkswagen has decided to construct a $150 million parts plant near Barrie, Ont. rather than in Quebec, a Toronto hnhewspaper has reported.

The Volkswagen board of directors rejected a “multi- million dollar enticement” from the Quebec govern- ment and accepted a $10 million grant from Ontario,

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Without federal approval of a duty-remission scheme that could save Volkswagen up to $25 million in import taxes, the proposed plant would not be built, the story said.

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