French car collection heading to auction... some beautiful rare stuff in here.

[JTalmage]

Lots of patina and rust in the first half of the lot. Cool stuff in here. Ferrari's and Delahaye's and all sorts of neat old stuff.

http://www.artcurial.com/en/asp/searchresults.asp?pg=1&ps=18&st=D&sale_no=2651

[espo]

I had seen something about this collection before. It's a shame that these cars were not better cared for by the owner.

[Mike 1017]

This guy bought all these cars and ran out of money for tarps?. I wish I had the money to restore just one of these cars.

[jrherald420]

Wow, what a collection!!

[slusher]

Some fine cars, some may be to far gone...

[Matt Bacon]

There's a great article on the collection and the "discovery" in the latest "Octane" magazine. One thing to remember is that when he was buying these cars, there was no "classic car" market. Those were the days when a five year old Ferrari 250TR racecar was pretty much worthless after it had been through a couple of privateers' hands. He bought "old" cars, many of which were in pretty dodgy condition when he bought them. It's only following the establishment of the "investment" classic car market that it's become rational to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a restoration of the basket cases that many of them are...

bestest,

M.

[1930fordpickup]

Some are worth the money to save.

[Roadrunner]

Nothing there interests me, not that I could afford it if it did anyway.

[ChrisBcritter]

I found one I liked, the Lorraine-Dietrich B3-6 pickup:

Did a little cleanup and photoshop work, et voila:

As the French surfers say, "Hang dix!"

[Crazy Ed]

I found one I liked, the Lorraine-Dietrich B3-6 pickup:

Funny Chris, I liked the same Vehicle out of that list. For me though it'd be fun to drive to the Village to pickup the Mail n go to the Hardware Store - 5 Miles of Dirt Road 'tween here and there.