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

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

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

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The LUG geezer??
 
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.
 
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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The most extraordinary has to be the one amassed by the Schlumpf brothers in Mulhouse, that’s now the French National Motor Museum.
 
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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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.
 
All very sad....cars are built for one thing....driving....not sitting around gathering dust.....and some of the ones above are real drivers cars too. My wife says that she would worry about how many cars I would have if my numbers came up on the Lottery......quite a few that's for sure.....but as soon as I wasn't/couldn't drive one it would be sold. Seeing those cars is like seeing race horses locked in a stable for life. :(
 
All very sad....cars are built for one thing....driving....not sitting around gathering dust.....and some of the ones above are real drivers cars too. My wife says that she would worry about how many cars I would have if my numbers came up on the Lottery......quite a few that's for sure.....but as soon as I wasn't/couldn't drive one it would be sold. Seeing those cars is like seeing race horses locked in a stable for life. :(
My 911 has done 4 miles this year which are from my sisters to Ken’s Autos in Warlingham for it’s MOT.
 
All very sad....cars are built for one thing....driving....not sitting around gathering dust.....and some of the ones above are real drivers cars too. My wife says that she would worry about how many cars I would have if my numbers came up on the Lottery......quite a few that's for sure.....but as soon as I wasn't/couldn't drive one it would be sold. Seeing those cars is like seeing race horses locked in a stable for life. :(
Yes, but would the world be a better place if all the 1960’s Alfas had been worn out ? If all the Cathedrals had been knocked down because England’s no “longer a Christian country?

In 1970 “down my suburban street,” no-one knew why my neighbour bothered with his Model T Ford or “Bugatti.”

Why own a car if you can’t use it to actually go to Clacton with The Wife and the Two Kids for your week away each Summer ? Scrap it, or flog it as bits ….
 
Have a look for the Hapyhipy car collection. Tim Schmidt is a nut job.
 

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