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Posted on 10/11/2023 5:46:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
* Earl Trammell died in 2022 and was known as a passionate car collector
* However, the extent of his obsession was not fully realized until two men - John Pierce and John Clay Wolfe - stumbled upon the collection
* Many of the cars, which had been sitting in a barn, were barely driven, including several Corvettes
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An Alabama man's vintage car collection was uncovered after his death - and the new buyers were surprised to find that many cars in the $1million portfolio were in near-pristine condition.
Earl Trammell, 88, hailed from the tiny town of Warrior, with a population just over 3,000.
He was known for his love of cars, especially Corvettes, and stored the vehicles he purchased in places ranging from the basements of investment properties to a barn.
'He would just buy Corvettes and put them up, brand new. We’d buy houses and he’d put them in basements,' Trammel's brother-in-law, John Hollander, said.
However, the world didn't know about the extent of Trammell's collection of barely-used vehicles until after his death in May 2022.
This included a 1998 Indy Pace Car with just 23 miles on the odometer.
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Ping!...............
Looks like a Javelin and a Shelby Mustang in there too
See, THIS is exactly why I’m not allowed to be rich....🤑🤑🤑
I’ll take Pvt. Malone’s ride. Thx!
Local news yesterday had a story about soemone finding a 1981 DeLorean in a barn and it had only a few miles on it...............
Was there a Red Barchetta in there?
He was partial to Chevys........................
My first car was a Red Beretta.
That’s not a barn - that a dedicated car storage building. It might look like a barn from the outside to deter the curious, but it was obviously designed to keep the collection in excellent condition.
My first car was a bronze Pinto!.........................
And it did it very well...................
Before I retired, one of the owners of the company I worked for was reputed to have a garage similar to this. He was a car enthusiast, even had his own hydraulic lift for working on his vehicles. I never saw it myself, but in good weather during the summer he would show up at work with a mint condition
‘65 Mustang. He had 2 or 3 Corvettes that he would occasionally drive.
I admire people like him- he helped create that business, created jobs for a lot of us, and made a bunch of money in the process. He and the other owners were great people to work for. More power to him.
Can a mechanic these days afford a 10 acre ranch with a warehouse?
Since he can’t take the beautiful collection with him I have only one reaction: Oh what a country!
Nice
Around 1989 I was on the freeway
Got passed by a Back to the Future Delorean
When I was in high school I worked for a guy who had a mint condition 63 Corvette convertible. He also had a couple others in need of restoration along with a AC Bristol (Cobra)
He wanted to sell the vette and a prospective buyer checked all of the VIN tags. Turned out he had unwittingly bought a stolen car. When he tried to sell it the statute of limitations was just a couple months from expiring.
The insurance company thanked him for taking such good care of their car when they came to pick it up. He lost the entire value of the car.
I have oddly nostalgic affection for Pintos...some people just hate them, but I found them to be oddly likable. Never drove one, and I heard they were not good cars, but there was something about them!
My 14 year old sister, who was popular with older boys in those days, overturned a guy’s dark green Pinto when he let her drive it, and she rolled it off a causeway with no guard rails!
Lust will do that to some men.
Now. A cheap Ford car that I detest with a white hot burning passion: Ford Escort.
When I was poor and in college, one of my life goals was to one day own a car less than 10 years old.
After I graduated and was working for 3-4 months I found a very nice 2 year old Pinto wagon (I always liked the 2 door wagon vehicles) in a nice blue color, with the 4 speed transmission and 60 series tires bias ply tires.
Purchased it for $3,600 and one of my life’s goals was realized.
Those tires were CRAP in the Midwestern snow, so replaced them with radials when they wore out.
Served me well. Drove it back and forth to Florida several times. With the back seat folded down I was able to pull over and sleep instead of shelling out for a motel. (I was still poor/cheap).
But I will say, as part of culture, I do find some of the aspects of the Pinto kind of funny!
The Ford Pinto was infamous. The gas tank tended to explode when the car was hit from behind. There were some deaths attributed to this flaw, and the news media was all over it.
I had a college buddy who had a Mercury Bobcat -- almost identical to the Ford Pinto, with different labeling. I used to purposely refer to it as a "Pinto" and it would always trigger a defensive reaction that started with "It's not a Pinto, dammit, it's a Bobcat...". But I rode in it many times, and I always got a kick out of his rants defending it.
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