Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting: Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure
Keith Martin, Linda Clark
Language: English
Pages: 182
ISBN: 2:00183868
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their favorite hobby, a tendency to dig into their favorite marques, chase parts, swap stories, and generally live the car-guy life. Some, however, step over that fine line between enthusiasm and obsession—and that’s the place from which spring the legendary car-collector stories. In Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting, Keith Martin and the staff of Sport Car Market Magazine recount the wildest car-collecting stories of all time, focusing on tales of the most eccentric and over-the-top collectors and collections. Have you heard of the fellow who squirrelled away dozens of Chevelles, Camaros, and other classic muscle cars in semi trailers? How about the president of Shakespeare fishing rods who in the 1960s sold 30 now-priceless Bugattis for a mere $85,000? The English nobleman who cut up and buried his Ferrari horde in an elaborate insurance scam? Or how about the Duesenberg abandoned in a Manhattan parking garage for decades and uncovered by Tonight Show host Jay Leno? These are just a few of the amazing stories explored in this entertaining book, a must-have title for any car enthusiast. Both car collectors and fans of outrageous classic car, muscle car, and sports car stories will find entertainment in these tales of collectors who’ve gone off the rails.
feat for Moxie founder Dr. Augustin Thompson, who was born in 1835 in Union, Maine. He grew up on the family farm, and when the Civil War began, he enlisted in the Union Army. He enlisted as a private and retired as a lieutenant colonel. After the war Thompson went to medical school. After graduating he established a practice in Lowell, Massachusetts. To supplement his medical practice income, he developed patent medicines, which were popular at the time. In 1884 Thompson entered the growing
20 minutes, and their crews were able to save at least half the plant from ruin. In Britain’s House of Commons on February 28, the Minister of Labour assured House members that all the regulations of Britain’s Factories Act were properly observed and that Jaguar had an excellent record “not only in its products but in its relationship with its workers and the care it takes of them.” Jaguar was able to resume 50 percent of production within just five days of the fire, but nearly three hundred
something as harmless as a seagull could send a modern marvel of engineering (and beauty) such as this into a lake. Dave Tomaro A Bugatti Veyron on display at a classic car auction. Bugatti Veyrons built between 2006 and 2010 rarely show up at top-level collector car auctions, and they sell in the $1 million to $1.7 million range—not too shabby for a used car. Dave Tomaro Should we take this case as a warning that collector cars shouldn’t be driven? I am unaware of any other case where a
Highways and Horizons exhibit at the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair. Pontiac’s see-through body was originally styled as a 1939 Deluxe Six Four-Door Touring Sedan, but later updated with a 1940 clear Plexiglas nose clip. According to the July 1940 Automobile Digest, a second plastic car, a 1940 Torpedo Eight Four-Door Sedan, was built for the 1939–1940 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco.” THE BHAGWAN’S 93 ROLLS-ROYCES BY LINDA CLARK As cult leaders go, Rajneesh was
as they were sure that he would have wanted her to be very well provided for. They were equally amazed that nothing specific was provided for the car collection. Many believe that he planned to make such changes to his will, but he just never got around to doing so. This case points out some very important lessons for car collectors. First off, no one ever expects to die in a day or so, but it happens. Our system of law provides that one’s wishes about the disposition of their property are to be