Collections like this have renewed my faith in the human race. The 60s and 70s were the greatest times in the history of the car.

Big thank you to the family who owns these vehicles and they we're willing to share them with us. Thank you for going in there videoing and showing us these cars. It takes a lot of work it's not just like you walk up to hey they say sure. I'm sure you build a rapport with them overtime. I guess the brick wall you hit was getting 60 hopefully you're feeling better.

Unbelievable!!! This man was the aero war king! May he RIP & his family benefit from his amazing foresight in gathering all these Ford,Mercury, Plymouth & Dodge legends.

I love that there are collections like this still in existence, and that keeping them all together is more important to the family that parting it out, even though the value is obviously significant.

What an impressive collection of automobile history!

American history and culture right there....wonderful to see

This collector has my full respect. Rip brother. This isn't a value thing either, it's a history thing

Everybody that says they don’t know why he has so many and a hoarder bla bla, just don’t get it. If the cars make him happy, whats the issue? He is preserving them and if he doesn’t’t restore them all, someone else will after he”s gone. If someone doesn’t need money what good would it do him to sell them? What good is cash if there is nothing you want or need? I think the people complaining are just jealous and may well do the same thing if they had the chance.

I'm not a FORD Guy but when you have cars named after a famous Race Track , that's badass.

Wow wow wow !!! Dream collection ! I thank the owners for allowing you to shoot and share this video with us. Unbelievable!!!!!! Thank you for the tour.

Mopar and Ford aerocar time capsule . Amazing collection the late owner had accumulated over the years .

Definitely not a hoarder. He was a collector and restorer.

I'm drooling all over myself looking at those Talladega Torinos

Ever since I watched Cars when I was a kid, seeing The King, the Plymouth Superbird has been my favourite car of all time.

Nice collection. I hope the owner is successful in restoring all of these cars. That's a lot of cars worth a great bit of money. It takes a large amount of resources and manpower to complete the restoration of all these cars. I hope there is a good security and fire suppression system available and the building is in good condition to the elements. Would be a mighty shame to lose all of these due to greed. Supposedly, Mercury Cyclone Spoiler IIs (aero nose) were only built with 351 Windsor, 3 speed auto, and a bench seat. No options. Painted a base color of Wimbledon white with candy apple red or presidential blue top and stripes depending on if it was a Cale Yarborough or Dan Gurney version. They were shipped with a black wing (spoiler) and spoiler and driver name decals in the trunk to be installed and or applied at the dealer at the owner's discretion. Some never were, cars are documented to have decals misapplied Dan Gurney on a red car or Cale Yarborough on a blue car and there are some with color matched wings. The interiors were blue or red to match the car. The 1969 Cyclone Spoilers (W nose), could be had with anything from 351 on up that was available along with anything else in the option list. With exception to the three Talladega prototypes (red and white for Banjo Matthews with "C" stripes and black for Ralph Moody, also cobra hood scoops) and the special yellow one for Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen with white bucket seat interior, all production Talladegas were 428CJ, 3 speed auto, and a bench seat black interior. No options. Painted either presidential blue, Wimbledon white, or Royal Maroon. All production Talladegas had their flat hoods and rear panels painted in competition black (aka: flat black) as a non-reflective surface. This is what I could find that wasn't already documented. One final thought. The aero years 1969-1970 with the wing cars, Superbird and Daytona respectively are often credited with dominating NASCAR. Now they may have had the speed, but the Talladega won the races.

Fantastic collection!,

That is an amazing collection and what a awesome building.

Awesome collection! Imagine buying property somewhere and finding a barn full of old cars 🏁

Holy crap this guys sitting on millions of dollars there!!

At least they are inside. There are hoarders who let their cars rot away don’t fix them don’t sell them. Ignorance is a disease

WOW!!! Thank you for sharing.

God bless him for doing this! Nothing like seeing awesome cars like this!

There were only 503 1969 Charger Daytona's produced and 1,935 Plymouth Super birds produced in 1970. Only 617 Cale Yarborough and 352 Dan Gurney Mercury Cyclone Spoilers were produced. This is definitely a very rare collection.

If that Hurricane Bird can be restored, the one in the trailer has a fighting chance

That VW Bus is DOPE!!

Now that's a freaking goldmine, right there

Thank you for sharing some very interesting and beautiful cars

Now that's quite the collection

These cars are the reason I watched Nascar as a kid, when the factory cars went away, So did Nascar. f a plastic body with stick on headlights and restricted motors, not to mention Toy o da.......

I only want one!

Well done, you cant save too many, very good to see.

There's a guy in Rhode Island with a similar set up with many Superbirds & Mopars in a huge warehouse & property. I actually sold him my 70 Challenger so I knew it would go to a good home. Mopar guys are alright with me! (Ford guy speaking)

Nice find!!!

Ford and Mopar! Nice!😎

I think a lot of people who see these cars simply do not comprehend the massive amount of effort, time and money it takes to bring one back to good condition. All of these cars are beautiful and valuable....yet, one has to consider that they are way beyond the average enthusiast. The Birds alone, are worth over 200k each....even in their condition. The cost of restoration on each would exceed 120k putting the investment well above $300k. I have had several mopars over the years, including my current Coronet 500 convertible......and I saved it from the crusher in 2019. It's a beauty now......but not until after 2000+ hrs of my own time and effort. Parts.....money and storage.

The stuff of dreams right there !

I wish I knew who he knows or just bumps into to find these amazing pieces of days gone by. Having just one of these is incredible. But to have a shop full he's got to be living right. I'd live in my shop just to have one to restore and put back on the road. GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! Thanks for sharing this! The Superbirds are cool but its the Torinos and Cyclones that caught my eye. Hopefully they all get back to running order etc.

I believe if was an Auto Archaeologist I could pop for a flashlight.

Thank You for sharing with Us😀☝🙏🙏🙏

Lots of good stuff there. 440/6 is great and the Talladagas were all autos. Talladegas are a bargain compared to the mopar winged cars in price. All I have ever seen is 351 cyclones and yes only 2 colors and zero options offered. Hemi Sperbird? I would restore that one pronto!

Back then it would of been easy to let these get crushed, someone thought to not let that happen, most people would not have done that. tHanks for the tour. I especially like how you mentioned that a car crusher nearly got some of these cars.

To do these cars justice, they should be rebuilt and driven. That's what they are for. Get them back on the road to drive and enjoy them. Put them out there for the public to see and appreciate so the newer generations can see and appreciate them. Very few car shows have these model cars on display. Hoarding them all in an old shop is a disservice to everything about the cars.

Very cool!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍

C’mon at this point you are ripping our hearts out man 😂

This is amazing thank him for sharing this your right lots of cool stuff

Serious shed envy right here!

🏆So awesome🐶🏆 I've owned Mopars from the 60s all the way to now 🍀got R done😎✌️

Love the VW bus greetings from Gothenburg Sweden ❤

I like the Buick 225

Mopar heaven! He's sitting on a fortune

Incredible that being only 503 total made and he has 10!!

Very cool 🤙 there's a red and black cyclone around the corner from me. I have a 25 car collection but nothing this cool

To bad the lighting wasn’t better where the basket cases were,,that was the best part of this video

OMG, GOLD !!!

He is the winner.

id be more than happy with the roughest wing car at this point 😆

This is a neat place to walk around. Thank you for sharing! I used to dream of owning an aero or winged car, but having owned a '70 Thunderbird, I'd never have enough garage to store a car that size. As a teen there was a man in Aransas Pass, TX on the coast that had 3 vitamin c orange superbirds in his front yard... Other than that, most of those cars didn't exist in Texas though I have heard there are a few in nearby collections. The VW bus, although the camper itself isn't unique, may have been used as a 'grass roots' organization vehicle. There was one that was on display at Peterson Museum in LA with the same color and lettering.

They’ll never get restored. I know quite a few guys like this. Time quickly runs out before you know it.

I'll buy one of the white Talledegas if the family ever decides to sell them.

By chance, did the Owner ever live in Loachapoka, Alabama (just outside of Auburn, AL)? I remember that there was a gentleman who had collected a large number of Superbirds back in the early '80s. he said he got them easy because no one wanted them when they were new! - Thanks for sharing

THIS is a GREAT video!! Thank you for posting/sharing it. Here's hoping this can serve as a role model of sorts, as how many of us wanted to grow up to be this guy?? Lol, where or how can one be adopted, OR perhaps apply for job in bringing these all back to their former glory??!!

Neato cars.

Omg! What would a collection like this be worth!?

Here in Canada I'm going to look at a 69 Super Bbee stored for 30 plus yes..... Oringanly a 383 .... All original other then the motor ..... Will become coming up for sale

Wow.

Good luck on that sale

Mother of god😮

Wow

I purchased a pick up truck with one of those engines, but the 8.0 i knew what i had but didn't had the most important part the room to store vehicles, sadly had to get rid of it.

gold mine

Any for sale I’m interested

The best

Bring them back on the road again

He could liquidate that collection over night for a mint. High end frame off resto shops all over the country would write large checks all day. Very few unrestored left. This is a gold mine and easy to cash in.

🎉🎉🎉WOW🎉🎉🎉

Where was this at?

I love old cars I love this building to put them in I think it's too tall. Impossible to heat or cool. I need a building like this but half the height I've Got No Buses or motorhomes to ever put inside. If you're going to work in one of these buildings you need it to be shorter with trees everywhere so that it receives no sunlight because of the extreme heat of the summers in this country. Nice to see someone save up a bunch of metal cars I've done the same thing but need the building now. I may resort to taking my collection overseas because America's weather has become so destructive and dangerous

My father, and 2 uncles had 70 Superbirds. Dad's 426 Hemi petty blue, 1 uncle had white and other had orange. It was supposed to be mine but mom and dad got divorced and they had to sell it. That car only came out to go to the NASCAR races.

That bus they are painting on looks to be a old prison bus.

Horseshoes some people has em

My biggest question (I have many), after watching and reading the comments and your replies is there another shop that you didn't show where the restoration is happening? Didn't appear to be much in the way of work or even tool boxes that I could see.

I’m curious as to what business he was in that allowed him to scout and buy all these cars. You said he visited dealerships? I did too, in the insurance business, but never had this kind of opportunity!

I literally have been looking for charger or super bird for more than 25 years

i will take the 440 6 pack 4 speed white Super bird with the front clip where ever it is . A collection of Gems that would be in my vision a crime to crush to make the new station wagons they call SUV'S today..

Brought when cheap or $5:000 or so now it 401K money lucky guy

OMG, your friend probably has 2 or 3 million dollar's worth of Mopars & Fords in the shop...OMG unbelieveable, but I'm seeing it.....

Chevy and GM was not racing in NASCAR in 69'. GM was in danger of being broken up by the govt. do to threats of becoming a monopoly because they were selling to many cars over the competition. GM agreed to pull out to get off of the overpowering Govt. sh!t list.

Can I buy these cars????

How much would it cost to buy one superbird (complete, but in rough shape) and ship them to europe?

Any SCJ Taladagas ?

Some of those cars look very familiar, Monroe County correct?

any Cale cars ?

Is anything for sale?

This is the automotive Twilight Zone!!

👍🏻🇦🇺💯⛽️

Is the B 5 blue 69 Charger for sale ?

Alot of money sitting here.

I am interested in Mopar if they are willing to part with any

I would like to buy one someone stole my Superbike. 1970 I would like a superbird.