Reference: Great car collections

[MikeInWimbledon]

Time to create a thread of great car collections, regardless of brand.

Let's kick off with a Chris Harris on the collection which is about to be sold by RM Sothebys

Superb Porsche collection, including some fabulous 928's, but all kinds of arcane kit, like the green Aston Martin Shooting Brake.

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[MikeInWimbledon]

The States has Jay Leno, but we have Rodger Dudding: what a story !

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[MikeInWimbledon]

So, here's the fabulous Jay Leno, but introduced by the fabulous Shmee...

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[Darrell]

The States has Jay Leno, but we have Rodger Dudding: what a story !

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The LUG geezer??

 

[Darrell]

DCM Classic in Glasgow is pretty good as is John Mould in Reading.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

The LUG geezer??

Aye, the bloke who made £200 million out of take-a ticket machines they use to manage queues in Supermarkets, which he then invested into 12,000 lock up garages, and then 500 Classic cars, including 25 Aston Martin Lagondas, at Studio 434 in Potters Bar.

Although I mainly remember this 86 year old for meeting his ... remarkable and gifted... young girlfriend.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

DCM Classic in Glasgow is pretty good as is John Mould in Reading.

Good call: DCM Glasgow.

Don't know John Mould, beyond who he is. Got a link?

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[st13phil]

The most extraordinary has to be the one amassed by the Schlumpf brothers in Mulhouse, that’s now the French National Motor Museum.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

The most extraordinary has to be the one amassed by the Schlumpf brothers in Mulhouse, that’s now the French National Motor Museum.

Struggling to find a decent video, surprisingly. Perhaps someone knows a better link?

Fantastic collection: institutional but well worth a full day's visit.

When I was a kid, a neighbour was renovating a Bugatti in his ordinary suburban garage, using his own engineering skills. It seems a ridiculous statement now. He made a chunk of change, back in the mid 1970's, just by moulding some new radiators for sale to other Bugatti owners across Europe.

Different times: impossible to imagine back then that a useless 1930's car could ever become worth a million.

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[st13phil]

When I was a kid, a neighbour was renovating a Bugatti in his ordinary suburban garage, using his own engineering skills. It seems a ridiculous statement now.

Not so ridiculous when you consider that Ettore Bugatti built his earlier cars in similar surroundings in Molsheim.