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Not like I would have had the money, but why don't I have luck like this, or never even heard stories about this living in Green Bay for so many years. What a find. Bet the guy will make a nice profit out of the deal. I think I actually applied at the place that bought this goldmine about a year or so ago, but never heard anything back from them. It would be so cool going through the trailers and uncovering all this stuff. like a kid on christmas.
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In-freakin-sane is all i gotta say.....
1999 Pontiac Sunfire GT
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Its for sale, i wonder for how much?
I dont think their even done going threw trailers yet, so i doubt its up for sale.
1999 Pontiac Sunfire GT
Team Gates
HAHA, Sweet, i live like 15 min. away from that guy and work about 5 min. away. That rocks man, I'm gonna see If i can check some of that stuff out on my lunch break.
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Juice, aren't you the one that works at broadway. I believe it was either the chevelle or the yenko camaro that was sold at broadway. It mentioned broadway in the buick link I believe.
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All of the items belonged to a man who collected for 40 years. He recently died and the sister sold off all the parts (21 semi trailers worth) for just shy of 1 million dollars.
He had the items stored on his property, and someone broke into one of the trailers and stole some vintage fuel injection parts so He welded the trailers shut and placed them all over town hidden.
Here were today with 5 mil worth of treasure.
Wow
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The now deceased wasn't a dealer. He was a guy named Donald Schlag, who started collecting things when he worked at his dad's John Deere dealership. He bought all kinds of stuff from Chevy dealerships, and made trips to California annually to get even more rare parts and cars.
When his dad died, Don Schlag started putting all this stuff he had accumulated in tractor trailers, and sealed them when they got full. Even he didn't go inside them once they were full ... he just started loading a new trailer. Lots of the stuff was bought at swap meets, thinking it would be valuable someday.
The eventual buyer, Larry Fesette was 'selected' by the family to take the collection as is, site unseen. Several tried to buy it, since legend had it that there was Yenko cars and hundreds of high dollar rare big block combinations. This gentleman, Fisette bought it of course hoping it wasn't junk ... Turns out legend was right.
Jeebus, I'm gettin' tingles just reading this story
I found out alot more info on these cars as far as a history goes. There are actually people here at Broadway that knew the guy and have actually worked on some of the cars that the guy has in his trailers, it is pretty interested stuff. I'll fill you all in later.
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I'm still shocked almost 3 days after reading this I've dreamt of the orange Yenko every night since mmmmmm.............. I want to see picks if they actually find a Yenko Nova
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Its a very wild story thats for sure. But man, what did the guy that spent all these years collecting get out of this. Maybe he enjoyed the hunt and knowing what he had, but still. He never sold anything, locked the corvette in the trailer after it was keyed to not be looked at again? Sounds like he lived at home with parents for a long time, and never took a paycheck, spending about everything he made on cars and parts. They said his house was a "cracker jack house" and you couldn't get past the door because it was filled with parts. He was single when he died. His family got a good chunk of change but not near what it was worth, and they sold it off not keeping it. It said he and his brother didn't get a long. He died having a lot of valuable stuff, but since he never sold anything, must not have seen money back out of the deal. As much as I love musclecars, what kind of life would that be? Sounds kind of sad in a way to me. His sisters last name was steppien, I went to high school with a steppien, wonder if they are related.
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The gold chevelle with the black racing stripes used to belong to one of the guys at Boadway. I am not sure if he bought from broadway at the time, but he still works there and was just amazed that the car still existed. He originally sold teh car back in the mid 70's, and teh cool part is that hw sold the car for what he paid for it brand new. The new owner hit a tree with the car shortyly after and tehn this guy Aquired the car, fixed it back to factory parts and specs, and has been in a semi trailer since 1975. He never drove it at all. Fixed it and stored it.
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