Livin the Life We Can Only Dream About - or a Nightmare??

I don't know if I'd enjoy it if it came that easy.
 
I know a guy who has over 600 AMCs including his own museum of them.........never drives them either.

No reason to own a car you never drive, driving is where the fun is. When I lust after a car I do not imagine myself standing in the garage looking at it, I imagine myself accelerating or cornering or feeling the wind.
 
No I don't want to be him. I'd like to stay me but with a large collection of neat cars where money was no object. And of course I'd drive them all.
 
That is what I like about Jay Leno, he drives ALL his cars, that is truly his Garage, he walks out and picks a car to drive home.


Alan
 
67Monaco said:
Nope. I never wish or dream to be any other person.
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I actually assumed that would go without saying for all of us - just a figure of speech. Jay Leno's collection is "more with less cars" to me too since they are actually driven and he shares his drives with us.
 
saforwardlook said:
I actually assumed that would go without saying for all of us - just a figure of speech. Jay Leno's collection is "more with less cars" to me too since they are actually driven and he shares his drives with us.
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I know a great guy in the LA area who has a huge collection of C-Bodies and other Mopars.
But he doesn't drive them enough either.
Hopefully he drives one to fall fling.

In the worst case I have to drive him with my Polara :)))))))

Carsten
 
fc7_plumcrazy said:
I know a great guy in the LA area who has a huge collection of C-Bodies and other Mopars.
But he doesn't drive them enough either.
Hopefully he drives one to fall fling.

In the worst case I have to drive him with my Polara :)))))))

Carsten
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I wonder who you are talking about :dontknow: ? Although I do recall a 70 'cuda 440 Six Pack showing up in my driveway one day.
 
More power to the guy. I do not begrudge wealth at all; it is HIS money. But, if all you are going to do is warehouse the collection and say to everyone "lookie at what I have!", and NOT drive them, what's the point? I guarantee if I were in this guys' shoes, I'd be driving one of these every single day. I'd have a list for the week, then I'd have my "car staff" ensure that the car I wished to drive that day was gassed up and ready to go. Show up in the morning with the previous days' car, jump in todays' car and roll! There is no way all these cars are tagged, so I'd have a dealer's license and tags to roll with.

I'd be quite happy with two or three of those cars and trucks. Hell, the five hobby cars I have now are sometimes a real pain in the *** to keep up with.
 
It is a sin. Absolutely. No ifs, ands, nor buts about it.
Wretched excess for bragging rights only. WTF?? Five cars can't make you happy. 50? 150?? There's something seriously wrong with this mo-fo.
 
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My biggest problem with these guys isn't what they do with their cars or how many they have it's how they drive the price out of the range of the average Joe. Heaven help us if any people in his tax bracket develop an interest in our cars.
 
If I had a collection....I would make it my job to drive all of them regardless of how rare they were. One of one.. I'm driving it.
 
One way to look at this, gents, is that were it not for his keeping these cars, who knows where they might be today? Junk? Someone else's collection? The thing that gripes me is that the vast majority of these collections are NOT open to tours by car clubs and such.
 
patrick66 said:
One way to look at this, gents, is that were it not for his keeping these cars, who knows where they might be today? Junk? Someone else's collection? The thing that gripes me is that the vast majority of these collections are NOT open to tours by car clubs and such.
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Sam Pack's Museum is open only to Charitable Organization's who use the entrance proceeds as fund raisers. I have toured the museum as a guest of the Boy Scouts, a local VFW Hall and a Public Radio station all as fund raisers.
Mr. Pack, is a self made man, no family money just lots of hard work. He is from Stephenville Texas, also known as the Cowboy Capital of Texas because of the number of working ranches. It is the kind of dry, sun burned town you would expect to see in a 1950's black and white movie. I mention that because I spent some time trying to figure out exactly how you make enough money in that environment to finance the kind of collection he has and my answer was hard work and to eventually leave for greener pastures. He started as a car salesman and eventually worked his way into ownership. I once had a job as a car salesman it was one of the most thankless, long hour, low paying jobs I ever had. I done know his whole story but as patrick66 said it's his money and this fortunately is America and what he does with it as long as it is legal is his choice. I have no doubt that the has driven some of these cars, even though the article does not mention it, it is better journalism to have him own a huge number of cars and never drive them. And I suspect that like many of us he got more focused on the hunt and less on enjoying what he had.
 
Ok, so what do we have here...
One man who has his say over all the cars or all the people who have their say on one car.
Come on, people. Please... I'm very passionate about one having more than one needs.

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