the Italian government had a particular scrap yard that they sent a lot of cars to for them to tear apart for the raw material during WW2. The scrap yard owner, well, he figured some cars should be saved. This is his collection

 Collezione Righini is one of the finest private automotive collections in the world, housing several landmark Alfas including Tazio Nuvolari’s 8C 2300, many Lancias (including a Stratos), important Formula 1 cars, and the very first car that Enzo Ferrari built after departing Alfa Romeo, the only Auto Avio Costruzioni (AAC) Type 815, which was raced in the Mille Miglia by famous driver Alberto Ascari.

Mario Righini is the current owner of this collection and resides in the castle with his family, but many of the cars were acquired by his father. During World War II, obsolete vehicles were sent by the government to the family's scrap yard to be torn down for their raw material. Mario Righini's father noticed that many of these vehicles didn't deserve to be destroyed, and over the years, he kept many of the vehicles that he felt would someday be significant once again.

all found on http://www.petrolicious.com/righini-collection 

the recently departed Paul Walker and Roger Rodas shared a warehouse to store their car collections, it was filmed in 2012. It's stuffed

"gone too soon, we hardly knew ye" is an apropos old saying



found on http://www.carthrottle.com/paul-walkers-car-collection-is-out-of-this-world/

Tim Allen car collection

Bill Mullis has collected black Corvettes.. nearly every year from 54-68, and then some other Chevys, Harleys, etc

Thanks Mike!

Bicycles, innovation among a collection

wow, a thing of beauty and construction/design efficiency, the Moser by Bernhard Rassinger

above meant for commuting on ice, maybe frozen rivers and canals in Europe? The 1930 Sclitt-Rad

the above Raliegh was chromed and the chain protected from the typical English daily rain

All from a touring exhibition of collector Michael Embacher
found on http://derstandard.at/1363711209772/Mitm-Radl-da-Highlights-der-Embacher-Collection

the Surf City Garage car collection and incredible collection of signs, gas station stuff, and pertroliana

wow, a Coca Cola delivery bike!

Comedian Mike Epps, car collector! Has a T Bucket, 57 Bel Air, 70 Riviera, and Rolls and Land Rover

found among the many cool car collector videos on the Motorator / GQ Car Collector series https://www.facebook.com/motorator

and the entire series can be looked through to see what celeb car collectors they've interviewed at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc_-Jxd4iKGMHnvCohTw4h6l

If you haven't heard of the Motorator, (Car Collector by GQ) check out the interviews of car collectors he does in their warehouses and garages, astonishing. Here's Jeff Dunham and Bill Goldberg

in which the incredible Jeff Dunham demonstrates how to open a McLaren, as it has no switch, door handle, or soft pad... very cool. He also explains the Mopar musclecar era fender tag screws. Seriously, I'd never learned this thing he shows, before this. How far out is it to be schooled on Mopar trivia during a celeb garage tour?





I've posted about Bill Goldberg's car collection before, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=goldberg  but this is the first video I've seen of the cars in his garage. He brought the lawman to SEMA! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/lawman-boss-429-mustang-that-al.html

So, my compliments to GQ and the Motorator, they are doing a terrific series of videos on car collections in Southern California, and the Clive Cussler collection in Colorado http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/tim-allens-car-collection-from-new-gq.html

Tim Allen's car collection from a new GQ interview, and Clive Cussler's collection from a Hooniverse interview of 2011

both found on http://www.rodauthority.com/

Bikeville is a blog from a company that is VERY into early to mid 1900's bicycles

these guys go on huge bike buying trips!

they take photos of all sorts of bike events, conventions, swap meets, etc

post info

show collections

they put out info about interesting stuff, like the weight savings method called Drillium, and show photos 

 

and have photos of so many rare old bikes it's like they are on a bike treasure hunt!

their blog: http://bikeville.blogspot.com and their business website: http://www.bikeville.com/

When at Pebble Beach, make friends, you never know where it might lead to, as Claus Muller was delighted to find out, he was invited to tour a private collection of a Maharajah

Above, the collection is partly in a roundhouse, I think it's a great way to access a large collection for a driver, I have no idea if the architect was informed that the display factor would be important

The 1914 Rolls Royce that sparked the tour invitation, was brought to the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours

Above, the original Shell gas station that is inside the palace, as the only gas engine vehicles of the time were owned by the Maharajah. Makes sense!

 While visiting India, the author of the website was also interested in seeing the local repair shops to contrast them with what he is familr with in Germany

Above a Royal Enfield repair shop, below, a bicyclist repair shop

See or read the entire post about the week in India and tour of the private collection at http://www.classicmotourist.blogspot.de/2013/03/indien.html which I learned about from http://www.carguychronicles.com/2013/04/classic-cars-in-india-rajasthan.html