Canadian Man Selling Property With Over 340 Vintage Cars

[Music] typically when you buy a house you don't expect the previous owner to throw in their car as part of the deal however a property owner in British Columbia Canada is doing just that it will actually throw in around three hundred and forty cars in the deal the property owned by Mike Hall located approximately one hour east of Kamloops includes five acres of land a renovated house a 1,200 square foot steel building a 900 square foot restoration shop and an auto salvage yard that currently holds over 300 vintage cars speaking with driving Hall admitted that he didn't know exactly how many vehicles he owns but said they vary in value between five hundred dollars and thirty five thousand dollars each I started accumulating cars when I was twenty first it was fifty cars then the collection grew to one hundred I bought more and more it's easy to buy them when you're working it's like an addiction with 100 cars 200 seemed better and now it's well past 300 he said although Hall hasn't given of specific reason why he is selling the property and his hundreds of cars he says that because he is now 60 years old he doesn't have enough time to restore all of the cars so how much does it cost to purchase all of these asserts the asking price currently sits at one point four five million dollars over at century 21 have enough time while is looking to sell his five acre property in Tappan BC and he's willing to throw in something extra to sweeten the deal three hundred and forty plus vintage cars hall plans on retiring and in an effort to simplify his life wants to sell his auto wrecking business along with the hundreds of classic cars he never found time to restore I'm still in good health he said if they can go to a good home and I could walk away it would make my life a whole lot simpler I used to think that my whole dream would be to retire and restore cars well I'd have to live to be 200 to restore all the cars I've got the property located about 10 minutes from Salmon Arm in BC's Shuswap region includes a 900 square foot restoration shop a 1200 square foot steel building and enough steel beams and rafters to build eight thousand square feet of covered space according to the real estate listing the asking price one point four five million dollars people say one point four million dollars is a lot of money Hall said not when a condo in Vancouver is going for two million dollars Paul said his realtor has fielded about 100 inquiries including five or six he considered to be serious but he won't start counting his money until her solid offer is on the table by as a liar's as my buddy used to say show me the money he said he would love to sell to someone who can the mechanical and bodywork because if you can do all the work in-house not pay anybody then there is a lot of money to be made Paul's car collection consists almost entirely of vintage two-door vehicles that run the gamut from nineteen forties trucks to held school seventies muscle cars highlights include a 1927 Ford Model T truck a 1947 Mercury ute from Australia and a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu convertible perhaps the rarest vehicle in his collection is a 1966 Pontiac Beaumont one only 45 ever made it's pretty hard to accumulate a pile like this anymore because they're all gone Paul said Paul spent decades scaling rocks for a living and then collecting cars was a labor of love but now he says it's time to move on you think you own sh t and you realize it owns you he said everything you own attaches a spider web to you and one day you've got a many spider webs you can't move and you can't breathe that may not sound like much of a sales pitch but Hall says his offer is ideal for a gearhead who wants nothing more than to work on cars and enjoy the quiet beauty of the south central British Columbia if you come up here you've got a lifetime worth of work and you're only five minutes from Shuswap lake he said dead everything you own attaches a spider web to you and one day you've got a many spider webs you can't move and you can't breathe that may not sound like much of a sales pitch but Hall says his offer is ideal for a gearhead who wants nothing more than to work on cars and enjoy the quiet beauty of the south central British Columbia if you come up here you've got a lifetime worth of work and you're only five minutes from Shuswap Lake he said akun you're only five minutes from Shuswap Lake he said

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Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 03 2017