A great time-waster for car nuts
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A great time-waster for car nuts
The Elkhart collection
The guy who built up this collection may have issues around his business dealings, but you cannot fault his taste in cars. Oh, to have a few $$$million to splash out on some of these. To be honest, there are so many cars from the collection that appeal to me, I wouldn't know where to start.
The guy who built up this collection may have issues around his business dealings, but you cannot fault his taste in cars. Oh, to have a few $$$million to splash out on some of these. To be honest, there are so many cars from the collection that appeal to me, I wouldn't know where to start.
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Browsing the pictures was a walk along memory lane. Thanks.
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Thanks Fran for that illustrated list.
Come October I won't be bidding for any of them at Sothebys. It seems a strange time to put that lot out to auction and I wonder if many of them wil reach their reserve(s).
Interesting mix though, but short on Porches & Volvos. Lots of others missed as well. In there is a Ferrari Dino 246 in silver. OK, but far better in red. Remember them well.
Tom
Come October I won't be bidding for any of them at Sothebys. It seems a strange time to put that lot out to auction and I wonder if many of them wil reach their reserve(s).
Interesting mix though, but short on Porches & Volvos. Lots of others missed as well. In there is a Ferrari Dino 246 in silver. OK, but far better in red. Remember them well.
Tom
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I think the best description of that collection, is "eclectic"
Surprised by how many I had no prior knowledge of. Another thing that struck me was how Fiat styling ranges from the sublime to bizarre.
Surprised by how many I had no prior knowledge of. Another thing that struck me was how Fiat styling ranges from the sublime to bizarre.
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Wonderful , and even a few models I or the family once owned when they were just 'ordinary' people vehicles. Too bad these are here due to fraud, but maybe some buyers will get their own legitimate 'steal' and a few fleeced souls will get a bit of their losses back -- at least the lawyers will. Khan kind of seems like a fitting name!
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I just clicked on your link but saw almost nothing on the back story of this collection. What is the backstory; the hints that were dropped makes it sound notorious.
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To answer a few of the questions that were raised but not answered by the link:
- The fellow who collected these cars had a payroll company that failed to remit the withholding taxes to the IRS.
- He's been sued by numerous parties and now has $98 million of assets to pay $120 million + worth of liabilities.
- The auction is scheduled for October so that the Coronavirus will hopefully just be a bad memory.
- Clearly, everyone involved wants to auction the lot off ASAP to meet the liabilities.
- There shouldn't be a problem meeting the reserves because:
- According to Sotheby's information few of the items have a reserve.
- Nearly anyone who has the money to buy such extravegences probably weren't affected (financially) by coronavirus.
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They say tomorrow is today's greatest labor saving devise; but a guy who answers his own questions is a close second! Thank you PDX
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An astonishing collection. Some of the old Alfa Romeos are sublime; the Miura is the definition of beauty, the Jaguars are sensational, particularly the E-type lightweight. Just amazing.
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Since this thread is about cars here's a link to a site about some remarkable minis:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/enthusia ... 5#image=13
I remember the British Vita machine. It was built for drag use and had a plenum chamber fitted. An awesome machine capable of over 150 mph. It was rumoured to be capable of overtaking a flat-out E trype Jaguar and then changing up!!!! As you can gather I'm not a fan of the E tripe. As an ex-boss said of the E-type, "It's driven by the sort of man that walks about with his flies open."
As for the auction collection there are a few of those I could covet but as my late father[0] used to say, "No matter what, they're all just heaps of scrap metal."
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/enthusia ... 5#image=13
I remember the British Vita machine. It was built for drag use and had a plenum chamber fitted. An awesome machine capable of over 150 mph. It was rumoured to be capable of overtaking a flat-out E trype Jaguar and then changing up!!!! As you can gather I'm not a fan of the E tripe. As an ex-boss said of the E-type, "It's driven by the sort of man that walks about with his flies open."
As for the auction collection there are a few of those I could covet but as my late father[0] used to say, "No matter what, they're all just heaps of scrap metal."
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