A couple of weeks ago I was in Brazil and was asked by a friend if a small group of us would like to see a 'small colection of antique cars' that his father had. No real petrol head could refuse such an offer and we were collected the following morning by a pair of blacked out SUV's and driven and hour or so out of Sao Paulo. I travelled in a 550ML which felt reasonably familiar except there was a little more wind noise from the windows than I am used to.
On closer inspection they were over 20mm thick and the sealing was not quite as good as standard...it was bulletproof and fully armoured.
'Never had any trouble but I know people who have' offered our friend. The X5 following us was driven by a large gentleman with a lumpy inside pocket and turned out to be his personal bodyguard!
We arrived at a farm estate just slightly smaller than Yorkshire (but somewhat warmer) and were shown to a group of huge out buildings where the cllection was housed. It turned out this 'small collection' numbered over 170 cars!
The opening of the first door wa accompanied by the undignfied sound of jaws dropping as the first car I saw was a blue Jaguar XJ220, the car I had invested so much of myself in may years earlier.....
That was the racing building, three others were devoted to Brazilian, American and European cars. Mostly post war and all absolutley imaculate, no most better than new!
There was a lovely collection of Mercedes SL's including my Argentinian engineer's dream car a 300SL Gullwing. (He took his shoes off to get in, such was his reverence!)
We concuded that it must be the biggest private collection in the country that virtually nobody has ever seen. But no...its owner knows of at least two larger ones. Astonishing!!
On closer inspection they were over 20mm thick and the sealing was not quite as good as standard...it was bulletproof and fully armoured.
'Never had any trouble but I know people who have' offered our friend. The X5 following us was driven by a large gentleman with a lumpy inside pocket and turned out to be his personal bodyguard!
We arrived at a farm estate just slightly smaller than Yorkshire (but somewhat warmer) and were shown to a group of huge out buildings where the cllection was housed. It turned out this 'small collection' numbered over 170 cars!
The opening of the first door wa accompanied by the undignfied sound of jaws dropping as the first car I saw was a blue Jaguar XJ220, the car I had invested so much of myself in may years earlier.....
That was the racing building, three others were devoted to Brazilian, American and European cars. Mostly post war and all absolutley imaculate, no most better than new!
There was a lovely collection of Mercedes SL's including my Argentinian engineer's dream car a 300SL Gullwing. (He took his shoes off to get in, such was his reverence!)
We concuded that it must be the biggest private collection in the country that virtually nobody has ever seen. But no...its owner knows of at least two larger ones. Astonishing!!
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) has an MG MGB GT, darkgreen. It's always parked just in the streets out here 
