Buccialli of Bill Tishman:why did he spend a milion and then sell it?

Many years ago, back in the '80s there was this man named Bill Tishman of a family that was strong in West Side LA real estate, who saw a picture of a French prewar car called the Buccialli and commissioned three ment o build him a Chevy powered special that resembled the picture. A million dollars later he had the car , which is now in a museum in Oklahoma or some other central US. state. My question is: why did he sell it? It seems like he realized his life's dream. I have seen the car in person and it rivals in craftsmanship any prototype show car built in Detroit. In Car Collector magzine October 1994 it shows it in the hands of Houston collector Jerry J. Moore. Anybody know what he sold it for? Of course he may have donated it to a museum because when you do so, as long as the IRS recognizes it as a legit museum, you can write off the value of the car against your taxes. I am just curious that a guy would spend so much and then dump the car.

By the way when he started it was always throught none of the Buccialli show cars from the Paris Auto show had survived but now there are two of them making their appearances at concours. Also there is a replica made in Holland that's out and about and I saw a black one about to be scheduled for an auction at Pebble Beach that was yanked when there began to be rumors it was a replica. So it's a controversial marque indeed, aside from this replica.