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[Sir Tigger KC]

.... collection of cars up for auction. 

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/weird-and-wacky-uk-car-museum-that%E2%80%99s-closing-its-doors/ss-AAaGlRI?ocid=mailsignoutmd

[flyer 0712]

Shame that it is closing...I have been in there several times and they used to have a huge old ship on show outside....funnily enough i drove past last week and wondered where the ship had gone to as it was missing,,,,so now I know why...

[4x4]

I have been there a couple of times,1st time, me and my mate found it by chance and had a look around it,had some good cars in there and some prototypes.

[Rods2]

I expect Lord Opti will be bidding for the superior Austin Allegro where he loves money pits.

[Keith ABS]

The ship dissapeared last year from the collection at Stonden due to a fire. A broken bottle acted as a magnifiying glass on one of the really hot days. We have a former club members car in the collection there and the curator, mark, owns an omega himself

Keith B

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Shame to see a man's life's work sold off

"sadly, owner John died in 2013 and now his family has decided it’s time to shut the museum and auction off his collection."

no idea of the politics, and surely the inhheritance of such a museum could feel more like a liability or a curse, especially if you're not car-mad yourself, however clearly the though process went something along the lines of

'we could carry on his legacy, as this museum is one-of-a-kind, and genuinely different to all the others in the country...hang on, is that old rusty Citroen, what's it? MS? SM? HOW MUCH Um... if we've got a hundred cars here, and each one's worth two grand thats... wait, how much for that Rolls-Royce?... about ten grand, and we've got two.. What's a De Tomato? Don't know, but they're worth over ten grand easy.... bleedin' ell, what are we even talking about this for? Flog the lot!!"

I know I'm making some judgements and leaping to conclusions, and if I'm completely wrong, then fair enough, I'm literally 'theorising'. However, no matter if you want the collection or not, literally hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets being chucked your way in a will must make for some hard decisions.

I'll have the Bond Bug