Why not? I don't expect my kids to necessarily share my passion for collecting and if they choose to sell some or all of mine, that is their call. I won't know, nor would I care.

As I write, I'm selling some very valuable world class items that I spent over 25 years putting together so I can redirect that value into another area of collecting. I'll miss them, but, to me, the fun is getting them, not having them. The "having" is for, hopefully, increasing valuations.

I don't know if it's for sale or not, but that 37 Jag is to die for, not to mention that MB sports model.

Personally, I'd love to have that 62 Cadillac, but getting it from there to here is way too much hassle for me to undertake.

I could understand it if he were tight for money but to me, it's a bloody sin to break up such a unique collection..... I think he should have either kept the whole collection or set it up in a national museum in his Father's name/memory but to sell it in dribs & drabs just ain't right.....

They are just stuff.

Indeed but stuff that his old man must have loved..... I could never bring myself to do that unless I was in very dire straits indeed.

I suspect that if the king had made a habit of grabbing his son and then hopping into whatever car in the collection and them going for an hour drive around the country, then back to the everyday life, none of these vehicles would ever have been sold.

However, if the Prince felt that his father spent more time, and showed more interest, in his car collection than in his own son I could easily see why they would all be up on the block.

You see it frequently when a massive gun collection gets broken up and auctioned off, the kids don't care or more likely are still hurt because dad acted like he cared more about collecting guns that he cared about his children.

Anyway, just my humble opinion.

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Originally posted by Mark:
I suspect that if the king had made a habit of grabbing his son and then hopping into whatever car in the collection and them going for an hour drive around the country, then back to the everyday life, none of these vehicles would ever have been sold.

However, if the Prince felt that his father spent more time, and showed more interest, in his car collection than in his own son I could easily see why they would all be up on the block.

You see it frequently when a massive gun collection gets broken up and auctioned off, the kids don't care or more likely are still hurt because dad acted like he cared more about collecting guns that he cared about his children.

Anyway, just my humble opinion.

Good observation. Plus the poor Prince still has at least 68 to go......

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
They are just stuff.

Here's another good observation.

I like stuff just as much as the other guy, but when you really think about it, that's all that it is.

+1 to "It's just stuff". The older I get, the more I think about a great quote from the film "Out of Africa"....'We aren't owners here. We are just passing through". The character was referencing Africa specifically but I think this is true of all the things we take so seriously. Guns, trophies, loves, cars, homes, money, status or even our own happiness as defined in a modern and rather superficial way. We dont really "own" any of it and in 200 years no one will give a shit whether we had it or not. The only thing we really own...though temporarily is our sense of self worth and character. Everything else is gone in the blink of an eye.

Not only is it just "stuff", but often it is of value pretty much only to those who originally acquired it. I'm not talking about financial value, but about what I consider "true" value.


I have a moderately large collection of firearms. It is extremely unlikely I will sell many (if any) more of them before I die.

But that isn't because "I own" them. It is because of the joy they bring me in the form of memories...how I first learned about them, how I got them, where we have been and what we did together, what they taught me about life, striving, and learning, and so on. So, while I live, I enjoy their tales.

It is only in that sense they have any value to me. Because they would not convey those things to others, they likely can have NO "historical" value to them either.

Ever hear anyone say "If only these guns (cars, swords, walls, whatever) could talk...?" Well, they DID talk to their original owners. But not to you or I or any other successor observing them.

To some small extent my guns are a bit of an expression of who I am and who I was on this earth. But that is all"past tense" when I move to the next state of existance. It willl all be gone because they CAN'T tell the true story of all that; just suggest a shadowy impression of what it "might" have been.

Reminders of adventures mostly enjoyed (and some regretted) to me, but soon to be "just stuff" as will be everyone else's possessions.

Claiming they are important history is just trying to freeze the present, so we can each pretend THIS life will go on forever. But, it won't.

Well said Alberta Canuck

What is the silver-blue car in the third picture?

That's a shame because that collection is what heaven looks like to me. Next to a warehouse full of fine firearms, of course.

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Originally posted by Allan DeGroot:
What is the silver-blue car in the third picture?

I'm not sure but think it's one of the Jensen range. The car looks so familiar to me but I can't quite place it.

#3 is a Jensen Interceptor:

Jensen made a lot of slightly different models/variants. I reckon all were pretty nice cars but whilst the variations made them interesting it must have been a right PITA for owners. LOL!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Interceptor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Interceptor

Oops. My photo didn't show up. How about:





I believe the Jensen Interceptor is the one which had the 440 cubic inch or 7.2 liter Chrylser V8. That sounds like a lot of engine, but I don't think it developed more than about 305 net horsepower at the brakes.

If I remember correctly they pretty much all had big engines & most if not all were Chrysler engines so they had good taste!

It's donkey's years since I've been in an interceptor but I seem to remember their handling left an awful lot to be desired.

Yeah, a 426 Hemi would have been nice in the Interceptor. I have seen one Jensen that I remember. Even then someone had to tell me what it was. Around my parts, the main ones that carried Chrysler V8's were Dodge Chargers/Plymouth Roadrunners or Dodge Challengers/Plymouth Barracudas.

PS: I suck at putting up photos.