My Grandfathers Mass Collection......

Waaaay Cool.

 

I agree. Your grandpa is my kind of guy. That collection is amazing.

 

What a pity the collection was broken up. Did you dad keep any of the cars? Or just yourself? Keep the photos coming

 

Talk to your estate lawyer donation to the right museum could have pretty good tax implications..Worth a call beautiful collection

 

I can only echo the sentiments stated here. Love the '36 Ford-make mine a coupe though-what a fine car. If I had my second ex-wife's money,I'd...wait a minute;that was MY money!

Bitch;I want that money back so I can go car shopping!

 

By the way, How do you only keep one? Hot rods are like lays potato chips.

 

Carroll Shelbys son Mike knows my grandpa

 

I bought the Merc. A buddy of mine bought the 51 ford convertible that was his high school car. My dad bought a 53 olds fiesta that was absolutely stunning. And my other grandfather bought the 30 model a. I tried to buy the Hudson Hornet Twin H car and the 54 Pontiac 2 door coupe with 24,000 original miles but I blew my wad on the Merc. Shit happens that was the one Car i would have mortgaged my house for. Didn't matter how much it was. I was coming home with it. Period.

The good news is I have all the buyers names and contact info. You can betI will be calling them as I can afford more. I gave each buyer a business card asking them to call me if they decide to sell it.


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Nice collection! Theres a few cars in there i wouldnt mind having.

 

great collection, also some nice old signs, did they go to auction aswell?

 

Wow is right. I'm not looking to start up a crap storm and glad you have a positive attitude about it, but what's up with grandma? Why didn't she just pass down some of the cars to the family instead of making you all buy them at full rate? Maybe she just wanted to level the playing field and avoid the potential family drama and convert them to cash instead. I can see that. My extended family went through a very bad period of fighting over property as some of the older members passed own. Broke up the family ties and some died never speaking to others again after. You don't need to answer if you don't want, mostly just asking myself the question.

Was a very awesome personal collection of cars, that's for sure. Nice building too. Not the sweetest ride there by a long shot, but I like that Scout with the gold top. Any more pictures of that? I've had my mind on maybe getting one of those for a while now. What happened to that?

 

Hey Kirk!

Haven't seen that Black Chrysler 300 mentioned yet. Know anything about it?

Josh

 

Like I said I don't care to get into how it all went down just wanted to share the collection with you guys as I knew you would appreciate them. There is no bad blood. Life's to short for that shit. The way I look at it is you can either whine about it or do something about it. I chose the latter. Glass is always gotta be half full my friend. At least they got to go to other car guys that are hopefully driving the shit out of them and getting to make their own memories. I take pride in knowing that other people are enjoying what my grandfather created with his own hands.


He bought the scout brand new and they used to pull the boat to the lake with it. My parents even dated a little in it when they were in high school or just out I will get some pics up soon. My uncle bought it back then sold it to my other grandpa and he still has it.


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Kirk... you recieved one of the best gifts of all from your grandpa... that is, the love of the automobile.

Sam

 

Certainly first in US. I think Alvis made the model 12/75 in the UK in 1928, a year before Cord?

 

Tell us about the Merc, why is it your favorite/the one you picked. I bet theres a story behind that.

 

Wow what a collection. If that was at my grand fathers I would have never went home!

 

What an amazing collection and the fact that he did alot of the work himself makes it even more impressive to me. I'm glad you got the you wanted.

 

YEP!! Build thread on the Merc!! HAHA Im sure you have plenty of spare time!

 

Wow. That collection's serious.. Glad to hear you got to own one of your grandpa's old cars. You'll probably keep that car for the rest of your life.

Ryan - that story of the blazing bed is hilarious. Amazingly small world too.

 

thank you for sharing this thread is just amazing

 

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a couple days on the collection. We've beenputting in some hours on my chop top 50 shoebox. I will have some time maybe this weekend to get some stuff up.

To he honest my all time favorite car was his 53 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. He restored it from the ground up and won several national awards with it. This car was especially near and dear to me bc I got married in it in november 2010. There was no way I could afford the car so part of it had to do with the funds (which it always does).

AlmostAll of his cars were restored to factory specs and I have always favored custom stuff. The kind of custom that makes you ask, is that the way it came from the factory or did somebody change it? That's exactly what this Merc is to me. It was built in the late sixties and has a stock roof but a louvered hood, shaved emblems and handles but the coolest thing about it is the 324 rocket with the factory three on the tree.

When I bought it drove it for awhile then decided to do a few things like fix a leaky wheel cylinder and odd ball stuff like that. That has turned into a two year ordeal with the body on a rotisserie and a freshly powder coated frame and a completely rebuilt motor with four 94's on it. I will get a build thread on it sometime soon.




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Had the night off from the '50, and no update? Just bustin your balls... Rest up... Work to do. But seriously awesome thread, im learning alot about what was there.

 

I met your granddad at the Cadillac Grand National in Fort Worth in 1996, The highlight of my trip was getting to sit in his 53 Eldorado!

I bought a 66 Deville Convertible and a 74 Eldorado Convertible from Jeff Wilmes around 1988 and got to see the collection then.

Does your dad still have the 53 Fiesta? If so, I would love to come photograph it some time.

 

Jeff is my father. I would have been four years old in 1988. Unfortunately the Eldorado was sold along with the other cars. I did however use that car to get married in in 2010.


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Here are the 2 we bought. Is the 53 Fiesta still around?

 

He had two 53 Fiestas. One was orange and white and the other was blue and white. The orange car won the Oldsmobile nationals best of show in the early 90's. It was judged 996 out of 1000.

Every car of his was sold in 2010. I bought the candy red 50 Merc back, my dad bought my moms 75 Camaro she drove in high school and my other grandfather bought a 28 model A.

I would have loved to buy the Eldo back but it is worth more than my house so there was no possible way at the time.

I have everyone's contact info that bought each car so I can see if I can buy a few back someday.


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