the Surf City Garage car collection and incredible collection of signs, gas station stuff, and pertroliana

wow, a Coca Cola delivery bike!

Comedian Mike Epps, car collector! Has a T Bucket, 57 Bel Air, 70 Riviera, and Rolls and Land Rover

found among the many cool car collector videos on the Motorator / GQ Car Collector series https://www.facebook.com/motorator

and the entire series can be looked through to see what celeb car collectors they've interviewed at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc_-Jxd4iKGMHnvCohTw4h6l

If you haven't heard of the Motorator, (Car Collector by GQ) check out the interviews of car collectors he does in their warehouses and garages, astonishing. Here's Jeff Dunham and Bill Goldberg

in which the incredible Jeff Dunham demonstrates how to open a McLaren, as it has no switch, door handle, or soft pad... very cool. He also explains the Mopar musclecar era fender tag screws. Seriously, I'd never learned this thing he shows, before this. How far out is it to be schooled on Mopar trivia during a celeb garage tour?





I've posted about Bill Goldberg's car collection before, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=goldberg  but this is the first video I've seen of the cars in his garage. He brought the lawman to SEMA! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/lawman-boss-429-mustang-that-al.html

So, my compliments to GQ and the Motorator, they are doing a terrific series of videos on car collections in Southern California, and the Clive Cussler collection in Colorado http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/tim-allens-car-collection-from-new-gq.html

Tim Allen's car collection from a new GQ interview, and Clive Cussler's collection from a Hooniverse interview of 2011

both found on http://www.rodauthority.com/

an extremely significant Chevy collection, you probably haven't heard of

one of the 5 Grand Sport Corvettes, and it was driven by Penske
the "Pass In The Grass" Dale Earnhardt Sr Monte Carlo,
the SR2 Corvette that Zora Duntov drove, and Bill Mitchell designed
Bobby Allisons 1973 Malibu, the last 427 powered Winston Cup car

http://www.powerperformancenews.com/features/chevy-power-bill-towers-historic-collection/

When at Pebble Beach, make friends, you never know where it might lead to, as Claus Muller was delighted to find out, he was invited to tour a private collection of a Maharajah

Above, the collection is partly in a roundhouse, I think it's a great way to access a large collection for a driver, I have no idea if the architect was informed that the display factor would be important

The 1914 Rolls Royce that sparked the tour invitation, was brought to the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours

Above, the original Shell gas station that is inside the palace, as the only gas engine vehicles of the time were owned by the Maharajah. Makes sense!

 While visiting India, the author of the website was also interested in seeing the local repair shops to contrast them with what he is familr with in Germany

Above a Royal Enfield repair shop, below, a bicyclist repair shop

See or read the entire post about the week in India and tour of the private collection at http://www.classicmotourist.blogspot.de/2013/03/indien.html which I learned about from http://www.carguychronicles.com/2013/04/classic-cars-in-india-rajasthan.html

overall photos of the car collection in the Martin Auto Museum

the Martin Auto Museum of Phoenix Arizona

1930 Dual Cowl LaSalle Phaeton

1963 Bel Air optioned to drag race, 409, 4 spd, dual carbs,

1948 American Flyer Whizzer

1992 Lister Corvette

  I think this is a 67

the infamous '78 collectors edition 25th anniversary Vette. This one has a 4 speed and 12 miles since new. So, it's still worth the 14 thou it cost new. Not much more. Some cars aren't vehicles, they are art. Some cars aren't driven, they are investments. Some cars are just wasted. Why build them? Why buy them? Why hold and store them? 35 years old and it's never been driven farther than from the dealership to it's first storage room. Should have invested in gold, it's went from 250 an ounce to 1600, 600 percent return. This car? If you could break even, you'll be lucky, as everyone that ever wanted to store one did. So most all of them are low miles, or never driven... hence, a no mile example isn't rare, and frequently for sale.

I think this was a 1917 model T

1928 Chevrolet AB model. The last Chevy 4 cylinder until 1962

1915 Ford Depot Hack that brought tourists to the hotels from the Yosemite train depot

1968 1/2 lightweight SCCA racer Mustang with lightweight body (acid dipped maybe, no details given) and a 428 engine with a 4 speed

1917 Douglas dumptruck, the museum owners first vehicle at age 16, used to haul Onyx ore at Mayer Arizona

1937 LaSalle, 2 door, 322 cu in engine

the 1951 Mercedes 4 door phaeton used in Hogan's Heroes... one of 2 made this way

1954 Oldsmobile 98 Starfire front / Cadillac rear half. Used in the movie indicated in the poster below... sounds like a fun movie, but Netflix doesn't have it

1930 Studebaker model 70 Commander

is the winged tire a hint at Louis Chevrolet's Indy 500 racing?

great helmet lamp

http://martinautomuseum.org/