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Five-Acres, a Junkyard, and Over 300 Possible Classics in Need a New Owner
Do you want to get away from it all and own a collection of vintage vehicles of varying degrees? Then the Great White North is calling you.
How about a rare 1927 Ford Model T truck, a 1947 Mercury Ute imported from Australia, and a restored 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle with a 396-cubic inch big block V-8 engine and a four-speed manual transmission?
These are just a small sampling of the over 300 rides that will be included in a real estate sale in Tappen, British Columbia, Canada.
Owner Mike Hall, 60, tells Driving that he has been collecting cars all of his life. For the past 40 years he’s bought up vehicles all across Canada.
Hall owns so many of them that he lost count, but estimates that there are at least 300 or so that will be included with his property sale to whoever can cough up roughly $1 million bucks ($1.45 million Canadian.)
“Just today I have responded to 31 inquires already,” says Hudson Purba, the Century 21 realtor who is handling the sale.
The property is currently zoned for auto salvage. In addition to all those rusty cars, the lucky new owner will also get a 900-sq-ft restoration shop, a 1,200-sq-ft steel building, and plenty of extra materials to build more storage space.
Hall estimates the vehicles value anywhere from $500 to $35,000 a pop, but we’ll let you be the judge of that.
“I started accumulating cars when I was 20. First it was 50 cars. Then the collection grew to 100. I bought more and more. It’s easy to buy them when you’re working. It’s like an addiction. With 100 cars, 200 seemed better, and now its well past 300,” Hall tells the Canadian site.
Apparently, the highway rock scaler’s wife put the kabob on his epic collecting habit and demanded he stop using their organic farm as a parking lot.
“Everyday, I’m torn about selling the property with the cars. I’m still buying cars. It’s like a sickness that I’m not getting over,” Hall said.
It’s definitely a condition we are familiar with, but his loss can be your gain.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
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A Rainy Day in a 2017 Acura NSX
SEATTLE, Washington — Rain, the kind that spritzes on your face and follows you from block to block, has been our constant companion and we’re now wishing it would stop already.
We’re in town to check out the all-new 2017 Acura MDX Sport Hybrid, but we can’t tell you what that’s like until next week as Acura’s honchos have sworn us to secrecy. But trust us, you will not be disappointed.
Instead, we can tell you a little more about one of our favorite 2017 All-Stars — the Acura NSX. Believe it or not, the two share hybrid technology.
Although the NSX would probably not be our first choice vehicle for rainy weather driving, it’s a heck of a lot of fun anyway. Plus, in Seattle it rains a lot — an average of 36.15 inches a year, according to the website WeatherDB — making wet-weather driving an integral part of the ownership experience.
The driver’s seat of Acura’s halo car is a good place to be. It fits like a glove and it doesn’t overwhelm you with a ton of gadgetry. It’s probably one on the few supercars you can jump into and simply drive. To keep us from wrecking ourselves, British racer Stefan Wilson is our co-pilot for this quick ride.
Earlier in the morning, Acura VP and general manager Jon Ikeda told us that 400 NSXs are already in the hands of new owners and out on the road.
Driving the supercar through the North Cascades is an exercise in fun. The NSX, which can sprint from 0-60 mph in a blistering 2.7 seconds, is properly fast.
The twin-turbocharged hybrid packs a 3.5-liter V-6 engine that delivers 406 lb-ft of torque. There are two electric motors up front that add an additional 36 hp each and another in the rear that produces another 47 hp. The combined total is 573 hp and the engine is mated to a 9-speed dual clutch automatic transmission.
Since we are not on the track and there are no Teslas around to race, we try and keep it within the posted speed limits. We are running it in quiet mode because of the rain and trying not to scare the neighbors surrounding a nearby golf course. Sadly, before we know it our brief time with the NSX is over and we get back to the hybrid MDX.
Could the NSX work as a daily driver? Hell yeah — just watch out for those parking curbs. As for how the hybrid technology’s implementation in the MDX SUV compares to that in the NSX, we’ll let you know next week.
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