Greatest Barn Find Collection Known To Man | World-record classic car collection.
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Wow, congrats, what an amazing collection! 😍 Any chance you have any 1930 to '35 Buick, Pontiac, Packard, Cadillac, or similar, for sale (in restored or restaurable condition)? Thank you!
I've volunteered for the LeMay Family Collection since 2002. The white building at Marymount is not the half of the collection. There are another 200 or so cars at Marymount besides the white building. Also around 70 motorcycles. About two miles away there are 300 or so cars and trucks at the LeMay home site, which is not open to the public. In the surrounding community at various locations there are another 1000 or so cars and trucks in storage. Plus, right on I-5 in Tacoma is LeMay - America's Car Museum, which opened in 2012, with another 250 cars and motorcycles, many of which were donated or loaned to the museum by the family. Mr. LeMay left a treasure for the community which the family continues to share through their commitment to the collection.
That is insane how much money that would take to buy and restore all that.But well done for doing that so people can appreciate
What’s the total number???
@@JL-bs6yz When Harold LeMay passed away in the year 2000, he had over 3500 cars as documented by the Guinness World Records. Many of those were "parts cars." After several auctions and thinning the herd, the family's collection is now around 2200 vehicles. Plus, whatever is in the separate collection at LeMay - America's Car Museum (not part of the family's collection), I'd say 200+ cars there.
This is an impressive collection but IMO it's not as good as the Harrah Collection in Reno NV was. I had a chance to tour this multi-building collection in the 1970's. The biggest difference is that your collection is just a Graveyard for old vehicles. No effort seems to have been made to restore any of them. On the other hand, Harrah employed a full time restoration staff that even included a machine shop that fabricated parts. Harrah's inventory numbered perhaps 1000 cars but each was restored to mint condition and was fully driveable. His inventory even included brand new cars that were going straight into storage never to be driven for decades. This is the type of thing that you can do when you own a NV casino, but the collection was apparently broken up after Harrah died while your collection still remains intact. I would suggest that an effort be made to restore a small representative selection from your whole inventory. Cheap skilled labor could be gotten from local vocational and trade schools, and such restorations might even become part of their curriculum. Every vehicle in your collection is a diamond in the rough. You should spend some time putting a sparkle into a few of them.
all I can say,,,,,FAAARRR OUT..UNREAL COLLECTION.. PRICELESS..
Old Trucks are my Favorite to see. Theres plenty of cars out there , but these truly are the Machines that built America From Dump to Tow to Delivery to Shipping Long Haul to Local Deluveries of every Kind Trucks are much Rarer than cars because NOBODY WENT OUT BOUGHT A MACK TRUCK & PUT IT IN STORAGE EVERY TRUCK WENT RIGHT TO WORK , MAKING THEM RARE And when Restored are a Beautiful Sight Unique in every way AND EVERY CHILDS DREAM THE FIRE TRUCK
WOW!! What a collection. Many rare finds in that building. An absolute fortune in that building. Thank you Mr. LeMay for saving and restoring history for posterity.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I "discovered" Marymount after learning Lemay's Tucker 48 was not on display at the Tacoma Museum. Two years later on another visit to Seattle after having done my internet research and calling ahead to the nice folks at Marymount I visited with a friend and was blown away by what is there. The Tucker was on the floor but the size and scope of the grounds and facility (and of course the vehicles) were absolutely astounding. Behind the buildings is a maze of dirt roads where school bus after school bus are parked, each one stuffed with car parts. "Old school buses are ideal for storing parts", said a docent. The biggest revelation was that almost no car restoration is done here or at the museum; the cars are acquired as-is and we saw a number of wrecks in storage (a '75 Cougar comes to mind) under crumbling sheds. Marymount is truly a car-nut's idea of heaven and bless Mr. Lemay for his collecting passions!
At 82 I sure want to visit that collection and regrind memories of many of those vehicles passing down the street when I was a kid. Not a lot of Kaiser Darins around and he has 2. Wow Thanks for the video tour.
O.M.G.!! This is the most diverse, eclectic collections I have ever seen...no favortism to any year, make, or model. And the old machinery in front of them is something you never see...stuff that worked well in its day, and then was discarded....like the vehicles. Wonderful that this gentleman had the money to save it all, and preserve it for future generations. Thank You for posting this, and wearing out a pair of shoes doing it! 😁
Wow, thanks!
What a gift to us all that Mr. LeMay had the passion and foresight to collect all of these treasures for one and that his family chooses to keep the collection intact and open for us all to see . Simply amazing .....
he had the foresight to be a garbage man
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Overload!!! This is like a Hot Wheels / Matchbox collection come to life. So many beautiful vehicles. I could bring a sleeping bag and spend days there.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This museum is the best museum I've ever seen! I'm speechless!. It's a work of genius, the interesting colours some of cars have been painted! And how also, these colours contrast with each other! I love how there's even a room, just full of JACKS , also painted in bright interesting colours!
And a solitary Volvo P1800 :)
By no means is this a Barn Find, BUT it is a life long collection of automobile history. The dream only the purest car nut can have and a very lucky hard working affluent car nut can amass.
Agreed. A wonderful collection, but this is not what would fall under the description of a "barn find". This is a well organized collection.
Just stunned by this collection ! And still I´am !
Got sick of hearing barn find 20 years ago, some come from sheds and garages, too.
No wonder you were overwhelmed ,pretty varied collection ,cheered from the UK.
This collection is unreal. How many units are there. I can't believe the quality.
I heard over 3,000
Holy crap... What a collection... 😮😮😮
What an amazing collection and what I really love is seeing many of them as is, not restored to look like new, because that really takes you back in time
Hardly a Barn find.
What a wonderful collection of motor vehicles. A mixture of the great and the ordinary. Mr La May has left a fantastic legacy for car enthusiasts and those interested in social history. What a remarkable gentleman, we are in his debt. Thank you for taking the time to create this post. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
I could spend a week here just looking, such beautiful old motors with tons of history. Thanks.
You and me both!
I started off wishing i could of been able to see the information straight on for each vehicle but then realized this would be an all day watch pausing for each one. I agree this it would be overwhelming. Awesome
I grew up in Tacoma, and visited LeMay's place in the 1970s. Can't recall how I got this privilege, but it was such a wild trip! He had everything, from WWII military vehicles to 1960s Mustang muscle cars to an old hot rod shaped like a woman's high-heel shoe! I can still remember details of the tour. Last year, I went back to the LeMay Museum in Tacoma...so glad there's a foundation and a museum to display cars from this amazing collection.
The Monson-Sultana school bus around 8 mins was a trip to see. I grew up close to there, and would always drive with my grandpa through Monson, Sultana, Dinuba, Cutler, and Orosi..... cool!
Very nice video, thanks for showing the collection!
What I love about these vehicles is that they're all original, NOT restored, so they more accurately depict their working lives. They're only ORIGINAL once.
You need to watch the video again. Many cars have boards showing the restoration process.
I was impressed with the quality of that Deusenberg tribute car. Did not know about that particular model.
I was able to go thru this building about 4 years ago. It is totally overwhelming buy the quantity and quality of the vehicles. It was great to see the orang and white 1956 Mercury as that is the car we had when I was growing up. I highly recommend this museum hope every gets a chance to visit.
Where is this place???
This is so historic cant believe it. Beautiful
So neat to have collectors like this person...these trucks are seemingly the last vehicles to survive their rough lives! This country owes its development to the truck! That collection looks like my mini vehicles on my shelves!
What a amazing collection !! Never seen anything like it Thanks for sharing here in 🇬🇧
Thanks for watching!
it does my heart good to see these old bones preserved, lest they may be melted down to build the new junk on the road. i currently have 9 vehicles from 1934 to 1952 & it's quite an effort to keep them all roadworthy. kudos to the other folks involved in this effort.
I agree that it is great that these cars are being preserved, but I cannot help but be a little disappointed that these cars are not out on the road being enjoyed.
@@gregodify in fair weather, i drive mine around the village & to the neighboring towns. they were never meant o be driven on interstate highways. the reaction of passengers who have never rode in a old car is amusing.
Now weve seen it . Like we people around the world would ever know about this . unreal collection - thankyou for sharing your time .
Thanks, great video!! I wish I could sometimes see this with my own eyes
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing place, so many rarities and cool cars, very good.
I wish you could see this kinda stuff on the roads again... this times of enjoying the ride and just taking it slow is gone . What a beautiful classic collection
Couldn't agree more!
All those vehicles are awesome, a piece of history and American ingenuity. You don't need a chip for any of them to run. Good old days when tech didn't get in the way.
Wish there one for American aircraft
@@billtev9846 Hi Bill, Visit the Air Force Museum in Dayton , Ohio. Like you ,I enjoy aircraft, especially WW2.
Nice collection in envy. Nice to see Mr. LeMay paid homage to the bus too!
Thanks for watching!
The building and racking system alone are mind blowing
This great collection is beyond imagination. An arsenal of American car industry beyond belief and competition. Thanks for this wonderful post!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing, love those old trucks 👍
Glad you like them!
Wow, an incredible collection! Thanks for sharing
Thank you too!
Good Evening from Dunedin, New Zealand. Thank you very much for sharing
Absolutely incredible!! I would have never dreamed such a place even existed. I could spend days maybe weeks roaming that building.
Great collection of vehicles
Thank you 👍
Dizzying experience...thank you for a wonderous tour!
Our pleasure!
Wow, what an amazing collection!
Thanks!
What a great collection !!!,Always wondered about the stories these vehicles could tell during their lifetime. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you very much!
Wow! Absolutely an incredible collection!
Thank you kindly!
There was mention of a Ford Zodiac Mark ll in the video, but it was not seen on camera, because it must of been above the car that was shown. The Ford Zephyr/Zodiac is a popular British car that first appeared as the Mark l, Mark ll, Mark lll and Mark lV models. And was manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1950 to 1972. The Zephyr and its luxury variants, the Ford Zodiac and Ford Executive, were the largest passenger cars in the British Ford range from 1950 until their replacement by the Consul and Granada models in 1972.Although the Ford Zephyr never saw American production, a very limited number were imported into the U.S.A.
I could spend weeks in this place. Talk about overload. Wow !
Wow such a huge collection of 1900's vehicles.
Wow what a great collection fanstactic one of the best I ever seen
This is a fabulous collection! Thank you for the video!
Thanks for watching!
What fun is it having thousands of cars just sitting in a big building doing nothing, when interested buyers would love to own these!?!?!? SELL THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am overwhelmed like you are. Thank you for posting.
You are so welcome!
Nothing less than beautiful collection
Excelente!! Muy buena colección!! Felicitaciones
That place is phenomenal! I had the opportunity to stroll around the grounds when the American Transportation Historical Society held it's antique truck show at the museum this summer. I could have spent the entire day just walking around & looking at all the cool old cars there!
This is simply awesome and thanks so much for sharing the great video
WOW!! Thank you for sharing
Thank you!
Dude that is a beautiful collection. That last GMC Tow truck was georgouse! My grandfather would of loved it. He drove a 70 Chevy sling wreaker till his last day at 89 yrs.
Very cool!
Un gigantesco Pedazo de Historia" Sobré Ruedas.Saludos desdé "Chile" Gracias...
Wow, I would love to see, up close, the Muntz and Laser 917. I have brochures from both somewhere. Thanks for the tease tour of that fantastic collection and building.
Thanks for posting and sharing. Nice to see all the old vehicles.
Glad you enjoyed it.
It's a very nice collection. Thanks for uploading the video.
So nice of you.
I'm from the UK and I'm amazed, I can only imagine what Americans must think, and then you have the racks👍
Thanks for sharing this amazing place with us. I agree the greatest collection ever!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Incredible colection!!!!!
I'm not a truck guy but... I would LOVE to see this collection in person! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for watching!
Bellos recuerdos de carros y camionetas
Of all the cars, the one I didn't expect to see: A 1937 Chrysler Royal (14:40). Seldom see those. My brother owned one that he bought in 1961. Found sitting in a field but running., used as a service vehicle around the farm . He bought it for $100, partly renovated it and drove it around for about 4 years (That blue color this Royal is, is not a color it ever would have been in its day. My brother's was originally black but he found out it could have been bought in dark maroon, so he had it painted 1960 Cadillac maroon. My brother had borrowed $250 from me to help pay for the work and when I needed the money back he didn't have it. So he signed it over to me. But I hardly drove it because it needed more work, especially brakes. I wanted to go back to college in 1965 and sold it for $400 but don't know where it is now. Wish I hadn't sold it, but that's the way things go sometimes.
one of the best collections of my life. unbelievable I salute you, and I accept you have world record classic car collection. Good Work love you dear.🤩
That's a lot of tires to keep pumped up. Humbling to see such preserved history. Keep safe and strong.
What a simply fantastic collection - a favourite in every frame. Thanks so much. From the UK.
Many thanks!
Thanks for the great tour.
Our pleasure!
THE BEST COLLECTION CONGRATULATIONS VERY NICE
Thank you very much
This collection is amazing!
An amazing collection !!
That’s quite a barn and it looks like someone “found” them a long time ago
A gleams of the pass that you can touch. Old cars like this are truly a time machines.
Remarkable! I wish that I had kept every vehicle that I have owned. The collection wouldn't be THIS massive, but it would have been a couple of hundred. When I was 16, I had an old Austin Healy with turn signals that flipped out of the sides of the doors, and a 1958 thunderbird that would outrun ANYTHING. And THEN I got interested in cars! When Janis Joplin sang "Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz"...I went out and got one!
Great video ! I read that Bill Harrah paid spotters to find cars. At one point, he had about 2000 cars. I'm not sure how that squares with the Lemay collection
Thanks for the info.
Herold actually purchased vehicles from that collection
I visited Harrah's museum in Nevada in 1981, when I was 15. He did have 2000 cars at one point. It's too bad they closed down and sold off all the cars.
This collection looks alot better than any car show I've been 2. 👍 thanks 4 the video and GOD BLESS.
Thanks for watching!
Wow this is just incredible thank friend for sharing this
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow amazing Collection!
Thank
This collection is so much better than Dezer's in Miami. Oh my, the depth and breadth of this, it leaves me breathless. And apparently you, too.
That collection is fantastic and incredible.
Thank you. Impressive collection. Tow trucks are often ignored.
I love seeing all the small stuff too. I saw an old BEAR Diagnostic computer from probably 80-82’ maybe.
I would be so awe struck I wouldn't be able to speak, so amazing
wow what a job keeping an eye on those cars, lots of $$$$ sitting in that building
Fantastic collection!
Awesome! I didnt see any Willys jeep here they must have some tucked away. Love it thanks so much!
Amazing,, ty for the upload !
Our pleasure!
I would love to visit this amazing collection
That is an incredible collection! How do they keep them clean and shiny? the air conditioner must cost a fortune.
Good question!
They have a great staff of dedicated volunteers. And that building is not air conditioned, but we do have some huge fans at both ends that help with condensation issues
@@michaelconrad9176 - Doesn't the fans also bring in dust?
@@nightlightabcd I remember that you had to be escorted and to witness this, an appointment was necessary. Dust is everywhere. The volunteers and staff should be recognized for keeping everything pristine.
Wow, slot of really nice collection of trucks & cars....looks like it's almost hoarding??!! I'm sure there is vehicles that you can't see due to them being packed in so tight!! God Bless!!
You are right!
Wow!!!! I have never imagined that there would be this many of these in the world, much less in a building like that.
I saw this and was absolutely mesmerized. Once again, I had to see it but with my wife, the second time. She was absorbed by the mid 30' to mid 40's vehicles. We loved the videos. Mr. Harold LeMay was special!!!! We're from the East coast but would surely visit the museum and white building when we go West. It's a bucket list dream.
This is the type of museum I've always dreamed about seeing. I'm thrilled to see vehicles that, because they're not "classic"s or '60s muscle cars, are largely overlooked by most collectors and therefore are in danger of disappearing forever. You can go anywhere and see a '32 Ford or a '56 Chevy for example, but where else are you going to see a 1918 Traffic Flat Bed? Or heck - even a 1969 Skylark Station Wagon for that matter? Now... if I could just afford to drive across country and visit this amazing place.
Wow! It took me almost an hour to watch this because I had to keep wiping drool off my phone screen...lol
Nunca imaginei que houvessem tantas joias raras tão bem bem conservadas, em um só lugar. Parabéns àqueles que possibilitam isso.
My favorite museum by far. I have been there about 5 times.