Massive Oregon Stash: 1940 LaSalle Series 52
This LaSalle, listed here on craigslist, is one of 390 cars that were collected and stored by the owner. They are finally letting them be sold off. This LaSalle was restored at some time and has been under a tarp in this barn in Rogue Valley, Oregon for over 20 years. The $9,500 asking price is high for a nonrunning car with so many unknowns. Some vehicles are complete, others are projects. There are also lots of truck cabs, car bodies, and parts. Forty-three cars are stored inside, the rest are sitting outside. Some are complete, some are not, many are just shells. Have a look at the video on YouTube. Some are rare and some belonged to famous folks like a 1928 Packard that belonged to Carol Lombard. Some of the cars, like this 1978 Granada, here on craigslist, look pretty nice but not very interesting and the $5,000 asking price seems pretty ambitious.
It looks complete inside, and original except for the carpet. A little work and it could be looking good again.
Those awful wheels will have to go. A prewar car with 4 doors makes this old LaSalle much less desirable. With those wheels, that paint color, and that carpet, the restoration is questionable. There might even be a modern V8 under the hood. You would need to have an especially close look and a lower price, but this might be a nice car. Ther are some interesting cars and trucks in this collection, including lots of Mustangs, cars from the 1930s through the 1960s as well as racks of parts and 12 trailers full of parts. We’ve been in touch with Jeff, who is handling the liquidation for the owner and will be doing a much more detailed review of this collection once he gets us more photos and information, so stay tuned! This is going to be a huge undertaking that will take years, heck you could spend a year just looking through all the parts and cars.
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The youtube video is mind-blowing!
WHO IS OR WAS THIS GUY????? I’m proud he loved old vehicles but this collection is AMAZING!!!!!!
Wow, some interesting stuff in that barn, but this isn’t one of them, for me, anyway.
’38 Mercury convertible?
No such thing as a ’38 Mercury.
Don’t be so sure!
I got this enameled license plate at a Lincoln/Mercury show at the Edsel Ford house in Dearborn in ’00. The plate was supplied by the Mercury marketing dept.
When asked about the ’38 date, we were told that that “The first Mercury was made in ’38!” (by a young whippersnapper, I might add!).
So much for history…
The model year starts late in the previous calendar year. The 1st ’39 Mercurys off the line were manufactured in ’38, just the same as any other make of car.
The LaSalle looks like one my Grandfather had
At the rate of selling them one at a time .he will be 50 years . He needs to have an auction and turn them into cash. He needs to pick one and restore it or just drive it . ))
Get Ralphie to help change the tire. OHHHH FFF
That would have been a 37 Oldsmobile.
“That hot damn Olds has froze up again! That son of a b#$*& would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator!”
What a find! Even considering the condition, some of those 60s cars will probably fetch good money, There are a couple of cars that I would love to own, but I already have a yard full.
Bob
I thought I saw a 1965 full size Mercury convertible in the video. Awesome. But where do you start………..at the beginning was the old phrase. Wow. But every day is another day too long to leave them in that state of disarray. I hate to feel sorry for the guy, but I almost do. Hope he’s retired. Good luck pal, we need folks like you in our world.
Yikes! after watching the YouTube video I’m overwhelmed by the sheer volume…I can’t imagine how the guy trying to inventory and sell this stash feels!
A lot of cool cars here, but after reading the unmitigated bs in the ($5000!!!!) Granada ad, I wouldn’t give the bombastic old fart the time of day.
And the seats are stuffed with $100 bills…..
but I can’t verify that.
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Here is a bunch on auction. Almost all starting at $1K with no bids. Some have reserves, and some list prices that are rather inflated.
Did you give us a link?
I posted a link twice, it appears to have disappeared both times. Third time is the charm? http://elderlyiron.com/ Then there are links to the cars and to the parts on this page. 63 cars currently listed, 4 trucks. I like the 1935 Chevy Dump Truck, http://oldfarmauction.com/auction_details.php?name=1935-chevy-dump-truck&auction_id=102025 No use for it, it just looks cool and in very good shape despite the poor quality of the pictures that they have.
Obviously – an old “wrecking yard”. There is one very much like within 2 miles of where I live. Old cars – some dismantled – old parts (hoods, fenders, etc) displayed in different places. People can go there to look for particular items for repairs or to “repurpose”. Owners sometimes haul vehicles to auctions or conducts swap meets a couple times each year. Owner has “FOR SALE” sign up a couple of years now wanting someone to buy property and all remaining items.
My tolerance for stuff on YouTube is usually < 3 minutes or so—I just don’t have the attention span to watch more than that. Having said that I just watched the whole 16 minutes plus of that video. I’m astounded but mostly sad.
I have no place, no money, no skills that would allow me to take even one of the interesting cars in the video and restore it. And it kind of makes me sad that someone, for whatever reason, would collect all those cars and all that crap and then try to sell it. What’s the point of collecting if you’re not going to do something with them.
And, I’m sure someone will have an answer.
With the evidence of all the machine tools, the media blasted parts here and there, The trailers full of parts as well as a multitude of cars in various states or condition or repair. I would say that over the last 30 or 40 years this guy has been hard at it working on stuff for himself and other people. I figure this old dude that owns all this is probably 75 or older and is spent energy wise and finally got talked into letting go of all this before he expires. Hopefully he is still alive and can help to identify all these parts he has stored up over the years. Otherwise we are going to have to rely on the guy in the video to identify them with his own knowledge. He might get 80% of it identified if he is lucky.
What would be nice is if he can match up the parts to the cars in the yard if possible. If not your going to buy something missing the fenders, hood or doors that are in a container to be sold seperatly, that would suck. It is gonna take him a few years to muddle through all that stuff.
The machinery and a couple of the trucks look good to me but alot of the cars need to be melted down.
Please keep us updated.
NADA Guides says could be worth between 20 to 32 grand ???
But its so ugly that who would pay that ?
A Museum ?
This has been out there for awhile – long enough for those that have dealt with the guy – to voice the fact he will most likely die still having all his stuff.
Holy Cow! That is a Ford and other cars Heaven or nightmare depending on what kind of day your having. LOL. I admire the original owner of all this stuff. If I had 100 acres and a bunch of containers and pole barns I would probably being doing the same thing. The difference is I would be making one hell of a spread sheet with descriptions and locations so that I could find it when I need it. Vanilla tags on all the loose parts would help that effort. This job could be done by the right person even now. Hope this guy is the one.
I will say that his prices are over the top of the value of what he has. It’s like he took the high end values and deducted the cost of parts required to fix them and that is the price. He didn’t figure in time and labor it would take to get them there which is way to self serving in my view. He needs to adjust his prices so they will actually sell. I feel like he may have jacked it up that high to leave room to negotiate a sale or prevent a sale until he can research further his entire stock. I wonder how many actually have titles. Good thing he is on the west coast. That will keep me from going over there every month trying to buy something I don’t need. LMAO.
While neat to see, the vast majority of the vehicles are falling in desirability to the general public and many car enthusiasts. Sure, there are some I really like, but the cost to acquire, and get at least drivable…not that interested.
Sad to say, but the truth is that most of these cars are on the downside of the value bell-shaped curve
I live in Medford, so where is this place in Rogue River, is there an address or phone number..?