The car’s covered in dust, doesn’t run and has four bald tires barely clinging to its wheels. But it still managed to fetch $8,000 at auction.

The large Washington State University Cougar football helmet affixed to the cart’s front likely had a lot to do with that, as well as the national interest in the auction held among the wheat fields in Pullman on Friday.

The one-of-a-kind Palouse-Frankenstein of a vehicle may not be able to run, but that didn’t stop folks from formulating plans for the car well before the auction went live.

Tagging friends and family in the comments of the WSU Surplus Stores’ post, fans and alumni envisioned it parked in front of their Coug-owned businesses, hauling equipment on a worksite and as the premier tailgate transportation — rivaled only by former WSU qu

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