Then there's a guy in Castroville with a large metal building that must have
50-60 cars, including a Lambo, a Roller, Bristols, TVRs, Jags and the usual
motley assortment of MGs, Fiats and whatnot. Not concours, not necessarily
running...put a padlock on the door and leave it for 20 years and you've got
the Portugal situation...
Just thinking, there must be a lot of these hoards around, if we can name
three or four of them in central/northern California alone.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 6/27/07 9:43 PM, Aeseeyou@aol.com at Aeseeyou@aol.com wrote:
> Kelvin,
> There a fellow, who lives up at the end of Soule Rd. in Ojai, that still
> owns every car he's ever had. He has never sold any of his cars. Plus he also
> owns about 100 others. I counted seven XKE's, a 1956 Jaguar Mk.1 and two
> XK-120's, a XK-140 about 6 MK 7's and Mk. 8's-and 3 Mk 10's. A couple of
> Jensen
> Interceptors, plus about 10 or so MG's (TD's and MGA's and B's) He also has
> lots of early American cars (Packards, Buicks Fords, etc.) Our club took a
> drive
> up to see his collection about 5 years ago..He's wealthy and has no need to
> sell or get rid of anything but says that each year it's a pain to mow the
> grass and keep the weeds down around them. We saw 1 1946 Ford coupe that he'd
> built inside a room and the only way to get it out would be to knock out a
> wall as it's fully enclosed! The things some people do...
> Albert Escalante
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