Car collectors sometimes get flak online for hiding their cars away out of the public eye and not using them as they intended to be. While some of that criticism may be deserved, we can take solace in the fact that the majority of car collectors take great care of their vehicles and, when ready, sell them to other enthusiasts or collectors to enjoy them once they’ve moved on.
The same cannot be said of this car collection that detailing company Ammo NYC recently stumbled upon, however. The company was asked to come to an anonymous car collector’s garage to detail a beautiful and highly valuable Bizzarrini P538 that the owner planned on selling, along with a few other vehicles. However, when they arrived, they were shocked to find the garage was jam-packed with some of the rarest, most sought after production cars and race cars of all time – the majority of which had not been driven in over 20 years and had been left to collect dust. Naturally, they documented the shocking site for their YouTube channel.
Given this anonymous car hoarder is American, it’s no surprise that the collection was filled with several desirable and valuable Chevrolet Corvette models and other General Motors vehicles. Among them are several C2 Corvettes (including what looks to be an ultra-rare C2 Corvette Grand Sport) and a white Lingenfelter Corvette C4. To be honest, there’s really too many Vettes stuffed in the sparkling garage to list them. As the detailer says at one point in the video, “there’s Corvettes as far as the eye can see,” in this dingy warehouse.
It’s not just Corvettes, either. Several Camaros are also seen collecting dirt and dust in the video, including an original Camaro ZL-1. The GM car we were most surprised to see, though, is the Oldsmobile Aurora GTS-1 race car. This is one of just four factory-built Aurora GTS-1 IMSA race cars (and one of just two left) and is a seldom-seen piece of GM motorsports history. The Aurora GTS-1 actually won its class at the 1996 24 Hours of Daytona, though it’s not clear if this particular car is the race winner. The car came out of the GM Heritage collection and may have been purchased by the current owner when GM sold off some of its collection vehicles in the wake of its 2009 bankruptcy.
Check out the video embedded below, GM fans. This is a video no car enthusiast would want to miss.
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So this hoarde…….I mean, “collector” claims to have ‘rescued’ these cars from barns, etc., so he could ‘save’ them? If that guy cared one whit about actually preserving automotive history, he’d have them in good running order and at least in a place where they can be viewed and appreciated by the public. Hiding them all away in a dusty cavern for 30 years while they rot from the inside-out from neglect doesn’t qualify for any kind of ‘good’ in my mind.
Maybe this guy needs to Google Jay Leno (although I doubt anything will change his hoarding habit at this point).
smh……………………….
Not a real Grand Sport all are accounted for and this is not one of the real ones. It is a kit.
The scope of the cars here is amazing!
Guess nobody found the light switch…
No picture of the Bizz P538… too bad… it used a Corvette motor
It was at the end of the video.
A lot of money tied up in this hoard. These cars need to be run and maintained, as the value goes down the longer they sit with out proper attention. Cool hoard though.
YouTuber Larry Kosilla, who is the guy taking the tour of the building, has a follow-up video to this tour video where he and an associate wash up and fully detail a red Bizzarini sports car. shown in the tour video in one corner of the building, next to a red Ferrari. The Biz is supposed to be an extremely rare car, and is the first one to be consigned to an auction firm, either Mecum or Barrett-Jackson.
At least most of the 300 cars have been sheltered inside a fairly sealed, and possibly moderately heated building, and not exposed to the elements like some true “barn finds” or “field finds” seen in many YouTube videos, where they are suffering major rust and rotted-out interiors.
That’s why GM makes more than one car. This guy can hoard his and you can buy one and drive the wheels off of it. People who feel deprived by this guy having a stuffed garage can’t complain until they’ve been to every car show and auction and seen it all. Trying to cry about it is like saying this guy is limiting their knowledge or pleasure. You haven’t seen anything.
I’m curious if that ZL1 is actually one of the two built back in the day or the replica sold at barrett’s jackson back in 2014. To my knowledge nobody knows where the two 9567 cars ended up. Would be a huge find if this is one of them.
Those cars were all used up most of them appear that way ,in the pictures so this guy has not really hoarding anything that I wouldn’t Either. I only saw one comment from someone who probably knows what they’re talking about and thats the GS. Get all those cars fixed up and running are you crazy. I was in the Museum business in the Midwest , military history that is . 6 guys took care of 30 main battle Tanks and and 200 other related vehicles and related equipment, Im here to says thats a job thats not easy as someone might think. So that said good job for collecting these up . Because at the auction you will see 300 very excited peoples…😇
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April 17, 2020 at 8:26 am
Not a real Grand Sport all are accounted for and this is not one of the real ones. It is a kit.”
Indeed; one or more of the 5 existing originals (surely Zora’s crowning achievement) occasionally show up at any of the high-$$$ concourse shows across the country.
The Corvette in the vid could be a home-brew copy, lashed together in some guy’s backyard garage, or might possibly even be one of the GM-licensed replicas built by Superformance (which are also high-$$$).