For enough money, you can follow in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream, and ride through the mansions of glory in his former suicide machine.
This 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible once belonged to the Boss, and now it can be yours. Within a matter of hours, the vehicle will be sold to the highest bidder in an eBay auction. But at a current asking price of $350,000, it?s going to cost you considerably more than it cost Springsteen when he purchased the car for $2000 in 1975.
A golden yellow, with flames dancing up the hood, the car was inseparable from Springsteen during his initial rise from obscurity following the release of Born to Run. So much so, in fact, that he was forced to sell it only two years later because so many of his new fans recognized the vehicle.
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?He starts walking toward me, and says, ?That?s the car.? And what does he want to see" The Hurst shifter.?

? Michael Crane, Springsteen fan
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Its popularity never waned.
When Michael Crane, the vehicle?s current owner, first purchased the car in April 2006, it broke down on his drive home in Long Branch, New Jersey. He left the car there overnight while he went to work. The next day, he got a call from the local police threatening to tow the vehicle because it was leaking gas.
?I raced down there, and I was like, ?You can?t tow the car,? ? Crane recalled. ?By the time I got there, there?s a crowd around the car, and they all know it?s Bruce Sp...