Yesterday's club outing...

[swift6]

We visited a private car collection in Longmont Colorado yesterday. Over two hundred cars and a very eclectic collection. All owned by one person. They also get driven on a rotational basis so they are ALL operational. Each car has its own maintenance sheet (laying on the drivers seat) detailing when it was last driven, oil changed etc... here are a few from that collection.

Some areas were pretty dark and my point and shoot digital either made them appear to be in a cave (flash with little other light) or exposures with no flash were difficult from long exposures and no tripod. Plus the storage warehouse was unheated, so there was an occasional shiver. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif


Duesenberg!

928 Prototype (one of two made)

Taken just for DOC!

Reliant Robin

Supercharged Auburn

Peugot

Kaiser Darrin

Morris Fire Truck

Morgan Trike

MG PA & TA

 

[Steve_S]

Great collection, thanks for sharing! I see a lot of MGs... PA, TA, MGA, Midget, and MGB GT just from what's visible. Must be a relative of Tony Barnhill! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[Bret]

Great shots! I’ve always loved them old Duisenberg’s and Auburns! The Supercharged Auburn is gorgeous.

I’d particularly like to see more pictures of that 928 Roadster prototype. I think I saw it (or one like it) have the hammer dropped on it at Barrett Jackson last year.

 

[Tinster]

I want a Morgan Trike!!

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[AngliaGT]

Shawn,was that Clive's collection?
Impressive!

- Doug

 

[JamesWilson]

Its amusing too to see what's in the background, and try to guess what some of them are....

Thanks for sharing those....


I like the Kaiser-Darrin with its doors that slide into the front wings.

 

[jlaird]

Man, must be nice to have money, I mean real money.

 

[vping]

Great collection, thanks for sharing! I see a lot of MGs... PA, TA, MGA, Midget, and MGB GT just from what's visible. Must be a relative of Tony Barnhill! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

How can you tell the difference from the PA & TA? For that matter how do the TA,B,C's differ? Pardon the naiveté.

 

[Steve_S]

The first giveaway is that the PA is smaller. Look at the width of the grill. The TA, TB and TC are very difficult to tell apart, at least to me. There are mechanical differences I know of in the suspension and engine, but I don't think the body is much different at all in appearance.

 

[swift6]

Clive Cusslers collection isn't that big. You can see his collection at most any library though. Just look on the back of each of his books. Each one has a different car on it.

Current estimate is about $25 Million in his collection. It is not open to the public but he will open it for clubs. Three different car clubs were there on Saturday. It might be open to the public at some point but no clue as to when. When you enter, you walk into a room set up as a 1950's Diner and he has some T-Shirts, Hats, Sweatshirts etc... set up for sale so it might be sooner rather than later.

Imagine your local Costco or Sam's Club. Pull out all of their merchandise and fill it it with cars. Then there were 8 side rooms that were sort of themed. Most of the British cars were in one room. The MG PA, TA, A, BGT were accompanied by the Morgan trike, a few Midgets, a TR6, A Panther, a Taxi, two Sunbeam Alpines and a Bugeye. The Morris Fire Truck, Reliant etc... were in another room. One room was nothing but hot rods, one was nothing but Corvettes and another was Limosuines. Some of the other side rooms had no coherent themes.

Here is another pic of the 928 prototype...

This was John Lennons Rolls Royce (one of them anyway). /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Frank Sinatra's Willys...

Really Really eclectic collection.

 

[DrEntropy]

Thanks for a look at "The French Quarter" Shawn.


...I think...

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And sincerely (thanks) for sharing the rest. A beautiful amalgam of examples there.

 

[swift6]

Thanks for a look at "The French Quarter" Shawn.


...I think...

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And sincerely (thanks) for sharing the rest. A beautiful amalgam of examples there.

Thought you might like those Citroens Doc! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

There were very few Italian cars in his collection. There were two Ferrari 308's, a DeTomaso Pantera and this Lancia Beta Spyder.

Which reminds me of dicing with two Lancia Scorpions on an open track day with my TR6 when it only had suspension mods and was still running the stock engine. Which was a total blast and the Scorpion owners were really cool guys as well. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Then, just to prove how REALLY eclectic his collection is, there is this monstrosity. ;(

 

[bugimike]

chit mon! Tinster joo cood be stylin' by the beech in dat!
Dats an eclectic car man? how much do de batries run? (all said with a Cheech dialect!) /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif