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Sheryl Crow is auctioning off her 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster. The singer is auctioning off the classic car next month and that the proceeds will go to the Joplin Schools Recovery Fund.

The singer has donated her 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 Sl Roadster to auction house Gooding & Co., with proceeds from the sale going to help rebuild the devastated city’s schools.

“After the tornado in Joplin, I was moved to help rebuild a city so close to where I grew up in Missouri,” says Crow. “My hope is that the auction of my 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster will bring in funds to help rebuild the schools in the area.”

Gooding & Co. says Crow’s car is white with a white hard top, black soft top and sport whitewall tires. The car, which the musician bought in 2005, is estimated to bring up to $100,000 when it goes under the hammer next month August, 11.

Joplin was left ravaged in May (11) after a massive twister ripped through the city and claimed the lives of more than 120 people.

Sheryl Crow, the Grammy Award winning singer asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to stop the announced roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern Nevada.

Crow is against Salazar’s plan to move a larger number of mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East in order to protect herds and the related rangelands.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan to move 11,500 mustangs from the range each of the next three years, because, as they said, the high number of animals is in the detriment of the range. They have set a target proper management level of 26,000 animals in the wild, about 10,000 below the present level. Other 32,000 of them are in the care of governmental holding facilities.

In a letter to Obama and Salazar this week, Crow with other actors and mora than 100 other groups are not taking as granted the BML’s horse numbers and claim that there could be only 15,000 wild horses remaining on public lands.