"He was living in the warehouse and not in a luxurious way."
Link to story: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/car-collection-auction-holland-intl-scli/index.html
"He was living in the warehouse and not in a luxurious way."
Link to story: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/car-collection-auction-holland-intl-scli/index.html
At that point they own you
Wow.
I love the variety. Like Jay Leno, the owner seems to like all kinds.
But if he's not driving or maintaining them, the cars are just there to be looked at and he should have just collected/built models.
Running when parked?
bludroptop said:"He was living in the warehouse......
That's not a good thing?
I have a secret desire to have a cot in the corner of my garage/home.
Kind of like Burt Munro in the Fastest Indian movie.
A quick power wash and they'll be good as new.
Honestly though, there are some seriously cool car in that warehouse. I can't imagine walking through that space, it would be at once amazing and depressing.
What is this?
... more complete than any of mine. =-~ (
The article said that the cars were in running order until a minor fire broke out. When the Fire Department showed up is when the collection was found out about outside the guys family.
It amazes me that in today's age, there are still collections like this being found. Assuming some are rare enough that collectors would have them unaccounted for and enthusiasts on the lookout for them, I'm surprised it hadn't been found long before.
-Rob
I visited the LeMay museum in Tacoma a few weeks ago and it was a great time, to be sure. But on finding out that there were more than 3,000 cars in Harold's collection when he died, I couldn't help but wonder if this is the sort of thing we ought to be celebrating. At a certain point wealth is just enabling a compulsion that would be classified as a disorder in any other context. People with money can spend it as they wish, of course, but hoarding on the scale of Harrah or LeMay weirds me out.
A hoard regardless of how well organized it is is still a hoard.
Haha, I like that an rx7 is front and center in the CNN headline photo. Photog keyed in on the crown jewel of the collection!
bludroptop said:"He was living in the warehouse and not in a luxurious way."
That's literally my lotto dream life. Just me, a huge warehouse, and all my junk.
I have a buddy that collects. Has cars that were perfectly functional that he just hasn't driven in years. Then in the same breath complains about not having room to actually work on one. I'm always telling him to curate and actually upkeep fewer cars and get out and enjoy them.
Sometimes I wonder if large collectors are one of the reasons classic cars cost as much as they do. It creates an artificial scarcity when a few people own a large segment of the market.
It makes me sad to see situations like this, where the cars are allowed to deteriorate over the decades
I don’t want more stuff. I just want more time to enjoy the stuff that I have.
David S. Wallens said:I don’t want more stuff. I just want more time to enjoy the stuff that I have.
I'm trying to learn that for myself, but whenever I see these warehouse hoards, err, collections, I get a #lifegoals feeling.
I really need to get these "buy it before the hoarders get it" tendencies under control or at least keep applying them to guitars and cameras instead of motorcycles and cars.
David S. Wallens said:I don’t want more stuff. I just want more time to enjoy the stuff that I have.
Ding ding ding.........we have a winner.
BUT I must confess I want one more vintage BMX bike as I have space for it. Trying to decide which one; I think I want a Redline Mk-II but I'm also thinking a PK Ripper is such an iconic bike.
Back to enjoying what you have; the reason I've kept my fleet small is I can't stand having stuff that never gets used.
As for time; I get that as well as I'm only able to do about 12 events a year.
Luckily they were kept inside. So many hoards are outside and the cars degrade to junk. The fact he bought and stored them probably saved many of them from the scrap yard over time. I just cant figuire out where people get the money to buy them all much less afford land and building to keep them in.
Too bad it was not here in the US of A. :0(
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