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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Last of the private steam locomotive collections? Even had a Big Boy... the Blount collection
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Labels: collection, collector, museum, steam locomotive, train
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Aston Martin One-77 supercars, limited to just 77 examples, for $1.7 million apiece were just bought by an anonymous purchaser.
Now educated insiders are speculating that the Sultan of Brunei bought the cars to add to his multi-billion-dollar, 7,000-strong car collection, the world’s most expensive auto hoard.
According to Guinness World Records the Sultan’s collection includes over
600 Rolls-Royces,
more than 450 Ferraris,
570 Mercedes-Benzes,
380 Bentleys,
170 Porsches,
dozens of Koenigseggs,
and 20 Lamborghinis to name a few.
He owns several rare custom, one-off and concept cars, some worth tens of millions apiece, including a Ferrari Mythos, a Jaguar XJ220 by Pininfarina, a Bentley Java, a Bentley Dominator SUV, bespoke Rolls-Royce and Ferrari station wagons, a Porsche Carma and a Koenigsegg Agera.
In the '90s the royal family accounted for nearly 50-percent of all Rolls-Royces sold. The Sultan owns the racecars driven by each F1 world champion since the 1980 season.
Known for buying multiple models of supercars in order to have one in every color, he owns several McLaren F1s, six Ferrari FXXs, four Ferrari F40s and three Ferrari F50s. The Sultan, who’s worth an estimated $20 billion, stores the collection in five heavily-guarded airplane hangars and employs a team of mechanics and specialists to keep the cars in perfect working condition.
info from http://ultimate-luxury-community.com/
See a gallery of some of the cars at http://jalopnik.com/379855/a-garage-fit-for-a-king-the-best-of-the-sultan-of-bruneis-amazing-car-collection
Labels: car collections, collector
Saturday, December 11, 2010
LeMay museum finally had it's groundbreaking (2 years since I posted that it would happen)
0 comments Posted by st at 10:57 AMhttp://hagertyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/lemay-museum-groundbreaking-june-2010.html for the story and photo gallery. My first post didn't say much, just informative that it's supposed to become the largest in the world
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/03/if-you-live-near-seattle-you-might-want.html
Labels: car collections, car collectors, collection, collector, museum
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Mullin museum is finally open, but only two days a month, on a reservation basis
0 comments Posted by st at 3:50 PM The above is one of two made, the other is unrestored. A commisioned painting of it by Nicola Wood is posted here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/marvelous-paintings-of-nicola-wood.html




Labels: car collections, car collectors, collection, collector, Hispano-Suiza, museum, Woody
Evans Garage... what a cool looking place (not open to the public)
0 comments Posted by st at 3:10 PMLabels: car collections, car collectors, collection, collector, innovation
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
In the right place, at the right time, and even better... get paid to do it with a camera! Meet Laura, she posts private collections, celebs, etc
0 comments Posted by st at 9:02 AM
Labels: auction, car collections, car collectors, celebrity, collection, collector, humor
Sunday, November 29, 2009
his motorcycle collection: http://big-diesel.blogspot.com/2009/08/harem-of-leno.html
his car collection: http://www.mensjournal.com/jay-lenos-time-machines
a couple new cars in his garage, http://www.moparmagazine.com/2008/sept-oct/another_mopar_for_lenos_collection and http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=892
Labels: car collections, car collectors, collection, collector, Leno, Motorcycles
Friday, October 30, 2009
Celebrating the art deco movement, the French Curves Collection exemplifies the zenith of the French automobile, including beautifully styled and amazingly engineered French-built cars covering several decades: Bugattis, Delages, Delahayes, Hispano Suizas, Talbot-Lagos and Voisins, many have won awards at concours d'elegance, and a number of the race cars have been past winners of historic races, such as the Grand Prix de Pau and Le Mans.
Labels: Bugatti, car collections, car collectors, collection, collector, Delahaye, museum