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Of the other cars in England., one is owned by Sir Paul Vestey. Registration number 6PEV. His wealth and his title were inherited from his grandfather Edmund Vestey who founded the Blue Star shipping line. However, he has made a further fortune by his interest in Dewhurst the butchers importing meat from Argentina. His estimated wealth according to the Sunday times is in the region of £720 million. Another car with dark blue/black livery belongs to Brandon Wang. Registration number EFC 31A. Formally a resident of Hong Kong he now lives in England and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of disposable paper products as in baby’s nappies etc. His collection of Ferraris alone is worth over £150 million. Incidentally if you’re thinking of buying one of these cars you would be invited to join Brandon’s GTO owners rally which runs from Le Mans to Marinello, the home of the prancing horse.The remaining car in England is owned by the Scott, Lord Laidlaw, registration number 6 GTO. He apparently sold his D-Type Jaguar and 250 California Spider at RM auctions in 2013. Ennobled for services to the government his net worth would be around $1.3 billion came from his ownership of the largest conference organiser in the world.There are a few cars in Switzerland, the land of wealth. One has been recently acquired by the richest man in Switzerland Ernesto Bertarelli with an apparent net worth of $8.6 Billion. The second car in Switzerland is owned by Engelbert Stieger, a Swiss textile magnate. His car is one of the only two cars painted black by the factory.Although the cars were initially produced in Italy only a few cars were to stay there, most being exported to the USA. One is owned by Carlos Monteverdi. The son of Lilly Safra of banking fame. It was her husband who tragically burned to death in their home in Monaco leaving $800 million of his fortune to Lilly. This car is famous for being the most expensive car to ever be sold at auction $38 million in August of 2014. Another car is owned by Giorgio Perfetti. The Perfetti brothers introduced chewing gum to Italy and now have a confectionery company that employees 17,000 persons and the two brothers have a net worth of over $7 billion. The remaining car was still in Italy owned by Giuseppe Luchini 2013 when it was sold to Johan Rupert.There is a car owned by the Luxury goods giant Johann Rupert from South Africa, the Chairman of The Richemont watches and tobacco group the owners of Cartier and many other luxury brands. He bought the car in April 2013. His wealth is estimated at SFs 4.75billionThere is only one car in Germany owned by Christian Glasel (reg no NU25), this car is LHD silver car with a bold yellow cross stripe. The chairman and owner of Weidmueller a manufacturer of production lines for such diverse things as cars or washing machines.Spain also only has one GTO owner, Jose Maria Aristrain who merged his steel company Arcelor into ArcelorMittal the world’s largest steel conglomerate. According to Forbes, he has a net worth of $1.3 billion.All the rest of the cars are in North America. Apart from the previously mentioned Robert Walton, cars are owned by