If you collect 1950s classic American cars and happen to have a cool 17 million in your pocket, real estate developer Glenn Patch has a deal for you.
Glenn has placed his 57 Heaven classic car museum at Branson, Missouri’s Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater up for sale.
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The classic car museum includes sixty-six 1957 creampuffs in mint, fully-restored condition. According to a nice post by Deidre Woollard, blog queen at Luxist, the collection includes “every convertible built in the United States during that year [1957].”
I have to confess a personal weakness for the chrome, fins, and dreamy styling of 1950s cars. I know the auto industry has made great technological strides, but nothing has the style of those 1950s era cars for me.
According to Deidre’s post, the most likely fate of the classic cars in the car museum is to be separated and sold off piecemeal to private collectors.
The world moves on, but there is a sadness in seeing such a fine and specific collection separated. The same sort of sadness I feel about the sale of parts of GMs Heritage Collection at Barrett Jackson—yeah GM needs the cash, but it is a shame to sell the cars from the golden age of GM to raise it.
At any rate, if you’re a true gearhead and want to visit a great toy museum in Fort Worth, TX, check out DFW Elite Toy Museum. While you’re there, you can also give yourself a thrill (and see just how far sports car technology has advance) by renting a Ferrari in Fort Worth. For those interested in more on the sale of Glenn Patch’s car collection, check out a good article on it from the LA Times entitled Dinosaurs of Motor City.
This article was written by SEO web copywriter Eric Anderson. Recent writing projects by Eric include a Fort Worth car storage site and a Tampa mortgage broker website.
