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A RARE sports car bought new by a Nottingham motorist for a few thousand pounds is expected to fetch £700,000 at auction.The 1939 Frazer Nash-BMW 328 Sport was originally bought new on July 6, 1939, by a Mr RWV Smith, of Nottingham, and the car still has its original Nottingham number plate GAU 260.In those days English counties, cities and towns were allocated their own alphabetically-coded number plates and AU was one of the Nottingham codes. In 1951, 12 years after Mr Smith bought it,..