What many people of Tacoma knew was that Harold Lemay shared his passion yearly by inviting friends and friends of friends to drive his cars on special days of the year. How many museums would ever let the average car lover drive their cars. None that I know of. He was a very unique man with a passion for cars. I lived in Tacoma and often went to his small Spanaway shop and watched some of the restoration on a few cars. I would look at the cars stored in the yard and say, "If I had that one or that one" I would do this or that to it. I doubt that there will ever be such a generous or happy man that wants to share his passion of saving cars ever again. To Harold's family, "Thanks for trying to preserve the passion and the collection". :) :)

I learned a long time ago when I owned 38 cars, you don't own them, they own you. I cannot fathom 3,000. I met some people from this group at Irwindale raceway quite a few years ago when they were showing the model of the museum and had a nice talk about some cars, but I had no idea they had that many cars.The logistics of that many cars is a massive undertaking.

4:39 Difference between spouses today and 30 yrs back

should build a huge car museum, and put all his cars in it so everyone can enjoy them too

"Son, I can't afford to raise you; you're going to live with some strangers who can." How d'ya think that would fly, nowadays?

Is there more to this? I just finished this video, is there a part two?

It’s so comforting to me to see you staring at the camera more than the road while you’re driving.

"runs out of room in his 300 car garage" LOL

the business makes 100mil a year and Jamie asks if his widow ever said enough, we can use that money for a holiday?? errr I think he can just about afford both.

Been there.....awesome. Mr. LeMay was a fine American. Started with one garbage truck ended up with an empire. I started with one pick up truck and now have nine whiny workers.

Soooo....where's the rest of the story?

01:50 That Packard matches your dress . . . SOLD!

where can i watch the full length of the video?

“He went to a wrecking yard auction in Idaho, bought the whole wrecking yard.” That’s one way to get a hell of a lot of cars!

I Wouldn't want to see a family so terribly burdened by this collection so if your nice I'll look after it for ya..

The collection at Marymount is probably my favorite car museum. I'm not sure I would even call it a museum since these cars are mostly in a non restored, daily driver condition. To me it gives them more character. The tour guides have a story about every car in there. Just amazing.

Wait so the collection is at the house? Or maybe it moved. I been to the musseum and later saw the collection place and I thought it was something like a warehouse type thing

Oh WOW what an Amazing Collection

Nice headlights on Jamie.

And now you Don't know, the rest of the story.

Incredible! What a neat story and a great collection. Thanks for sharing.

Nice collection hope they are restored exactly the same as once they were.

I live near Tacoma so I've been to that museum a couple of time. If you are in the area it's well worth the visit. You won't be disappointed.

I like to see these cars on the road, maybe weekends on backroads. Those are nice driving cars unlike todays cars.

If it wasn't for this man and his wonderful method of madness there would never be this amount of old cars out there that would of survived it's fantastic to see such a collection

Gosh I would truly enjoy a chance to purchase the White 1967 Shelby Mustang! At 58 it's still my life long dream!

This is almost as nice as a car museum. Wow this is so awesome. Hard to choose which car is nice, they all are sweet looking cars. I like to see the collection of these cars do a little tour seeing them

I would be so proud to show it off and say it was my dads work... I love my father .

I saw that collection about 7 years ago it was awesome.

OMG---this guy has more cars than jay leno!

What an amazing legacy he left! They should create a museum in his honor or even contact the Smithsonian or the Henry Ford.

My dad had every Cadillac from 1950-1966

i would settle for a couple of the junk cars they have out in the field.

The yearly show they use to do every August at Marymount was pretty awesome

I was getting so intrigued.. Then it cuts off darn. What cars I did get to see I loved THEM...❤❤

God Bless this Man❗ There's a dyed-in-the-wool , down to his soul , natural-born CAR GUY O:-)

anyone know where I can watch the rest of the video?

R.I.P pops 🌹

Really game changer man...lots of respect..his mother couldn't afford to take care of him due to financial c implications..when he grew up..he bought a whole school and 19 properties...

I clearly heard Jamie Colby and Doug Lemay say the collection has 300 cars, BUT the title says 3000, that's a huge discrepancy!!!

I want to see the whole thing.

Uhhum.. Now that I have composed myself, I have to say WOW ! and well done to that gentleman. I am in complete awe of his wonderful wisdom and vision to conserve those beautiful cars for the future generations. Hope he left enough cash to keep maintaining them otherwise this whole deal would be compromised. Good luck to the beneficiaries.

She is a lovely woman, amazing car collection. I would enjoy seeing more of both.

Nice collection, 1:44, you see him checking out her. !!!!

Wtf it just stops? I want to hear he rest of the story.

I am blessed by this video! Thank you.

Great!! Save those Old Beauties!!

Where is the rest of the story?

"Car Saver," love it!

Mr. Lemay had some beautiful cars there I’ve been there a bunch of times it’s a heck of a museum

I don't know whys this in my Recommended. But i admire the man who owns that alot of Cars!! ♥️♥️👌🏼👌🏼

Either set up a museum so everyone can enjoy them or sell them off so other people can adore them the same way his father did.

I met Mr Lemay at Turlock and Pleasanton Cal auto shows. He bought a few cars and lots of parts from me RIP !!!

There r no words to describe how i feel looking at this collection

Well, I'm sure others have said a museum which I totally agree. Also, you could pick one car every day and charge people to drive them around in it. Each day, different car and make a schedule ahead of time. Also, you could drive people in a wedding, the married couple. Plenty of ways to make money, but I'm sure it's easier said than done. I'm sure some people in the family are tired of it though. I just hope that if they sell it or already have sold it that they picked someone who would buy the whole lot and keep it going. That's a lot of amazing work that man put in and what a cool thing to inherit!

Nice pair of sweater puppets

Long live the classics!!!

wonderful collection

Harold Lemay was amazing! Awesome story. Car Savers Unite!

I'm not super big on cars but got I love seeing classics... If I could one car I just want it to be a classic of some sort

360p resolution? Surely it was shot in at least 480 for analog TV. So who uploaded this with reduced resolution and why?

harold now why did not you even leave us part 2 of your fascinating passion.

what happend to end

Better than money in the bank! At least he enjoyed the cars he bought and he got a great deal of satisfaction in saving them and preserving them.

the Le May Collection amazing collection I knew what it was seeing the picture the picture near middle shows the museum which is only part of the collection

I want to see the rest of the story. I have not seen a story I found this interesting in a long time.

This is amazing!

Been to the main Museum and is a must for car People!

does any one of you have 1974 classic car Lincoln mark iv continental?

Harold did exactly what i would do if i had money, save as many as i could and try to find them a good home. Shit makes me sad to see them going to waste...

What an amazing collection.

If you're going to run a story, do the whole thing. I don't have the patience (very few do) to page through hundreds (thousands?) of videos to find part two (March 15th 2015?) of this show.

God Bless You Harold The Car Saver.

3,000 classic cars most of which are in mint condition, how fun. I would Love the keys to the garage with the keys to the cars. Holy fun day.

OMGs! I would have loved meeting this man and got to know him. I bet he was a hoot! To bad men like him are leaving us fast...

awesome classics !

I can use Harold as an example to my wife that 7 cars is kids play! :) Cool collection!

The future of technology, good video!

Harold is my type of guy, saving cars from the crusher. Awesome guy.

family spoke of him in a very nice way..Good video..thanks

i wanna inherit jamie lol

thanks for sharing

Yes, build a car museum so can share with everyone and also the generation who love the car. 😀👍👍👍

Amazing, so amazing.

I like that attitude of being a "car-saver"!!!

"Oh my goodness look at the steering wheel!" This lady knows a ton about cars

where is part two at ?

1963 Plymouth fury wagon ...any in the collection?

My dream model a flathead 8, 59 Chevrolet el Camino bel air, not pickey 👍

Instead of stock, real estate etc. he apparently invested in cars. It seems to have worked out well for him and his family.

Got any Hupmobile's in there??

beautiful cars!!

And amazing collection of cars

I'm 55 and have owned 30 cars and a truck . After seeing this , I wish I could've kept each one . But in reality I was trying to enjoy and drive another , with vision's of unrealistic goals . My , Brother a mechanic told me , that my eyes were bigger than my wallet . I knew he was right . Today I wish , that I had n't made so many poor choices . But after all Isn't that there all about ?

I'd love to inherit Jamie Colby!😁

It's my dream to do similar as this, I live in Seattle and would love to get in contact with him! Is there anyway possible he has contact information? Thank you!

Where's the rest of the video?

i would love to metal detected that property

My dream car was in the background. 1967 Shelby

Were is this place can we buy a car there