Teenager sells 'banger' car to Banksy show
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📌 Key Takeaways
- A teenager sold their old car to a Banksy exhibition.
- The car was described as a 'banger', indicating it was in poor condition.
- The sale was directly to the show, not through a typical marketplace.
- This event highlights unique interactions between public art and personal items.
Matilda from Lancaster thought she was being pranked when organisers asked to buy her Nissan Micra.
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Art, Youth
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Teenager sells 'banger' car to Banksy show 11 hours ago Share Save Paul Burnell North West Share Save A teenager has sold her Nissan Micra car for £400 to the organisers of an exhibition who are using it to replicate an original Banksy work of art. Matilda had advertised her 25-year-old car which was "missing a few bits" online and thought someone was pranking her when they said they wanted to buy it to recreate Banksy's famous work of a rhino mounting a Micra. The 17-year-old, from Lancaster, said she asked them to "pay a bit up front" in case the call was a fake, but she was "really excited" to find it was genuine, adding: "What a name to be involved with - Banksy". The exhibition, which runs at Depot Mayfield in Manchester, opens at the weekend and runs until July. Matilda's brother had bought her the car for her to learn to drive in. "Obviously it's a classic so it's not really an everyday car so that was the plan. "We have quite a lot of vehicles, my brother collects a lot and we have a lot and we just sort of got to the point where we just had too many and we thought something needs to go so we thought we'll advertise it," she said. Annoyed by previous "time-wasters" she created an unusual online advert. "I basically just put, 'Look, we're not friends. You're not coming here to have a day out. 'You're buying a car, it's not in excellent condition whatsoever'," she said. "And, well, it sold." When she first heard it was wanted for an exhibition, she said she "thought it was a bit strange" and she was amazed to learn the car would recreate the "very famous" piece by the mysterious artist. She said: "The funny thing is most people when you sell a car they want it running well they want the opposite they want the fuel tank taken off it and they don't want it running at all." Matilda said she had already seen the beginning of the process of setting up the exhibition and "it's great". "I'm also going to be able to see the actually painted rhinoceros on the car, so I...
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