The Coker Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee: What a stash!
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- čas přidán 8. 12. 2023
- A stunning private collection of mostly restored antique classics that we can see! There'a also some unrestored gems in here too! Let's hope they leave them that way!
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Thank you for keeping camera still and focused on cars, you clearly understand the desire of car enthusiasts to see the details of the car. Great job.
Simply wonderful to see so much automotive history - thank you !!!
One of the best walkabouts of a collection that I've seen in ages. Thanks, from a new sub.
Thanks very much. Appreciate the comment and the sub!
@@AbandonedClassicsOne Good fun joining you, but there were exceptionally rare motorcycles everywhere there, and we never saw them! Hopefully, you were able to soak them in a wee bit. Sure was a GIANT collection of them. The pre-war cars were very very enjoyable to see. Thank you immensely
@@email4664 Appreciate the comment, email and support. Yes, lots of classic bikes - I’d be happy to go through them and present in a video when next in the area.
That Mercedes was a 300SL, easily the most expensive car there! The Crane-Simplex is also a very well designed and expensive performance car of its day.
Thanks Rick. 300SL is there on the boot/trunk too which I didn’t see at the time!
Wow look at all those classics car!
Excellent.
Great museum !! .. loved it !
Thanks. Great video...Hope to be there to see the 50 Ford coupe....Keep up the good work.
Wowww…. 👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
I will have to visit! That T-head Mercer Raceabout deserves a much closer look.
Perhaps on the next visit!
It is an XK 150 with the broad grille produced between 1958 to 1961, the 140 has also narrow grille with less metal sticks which are thick chrome mantled..
Thanks Benny. Great info!
Explains their tire pricing!
The museum and the tire store are not owned by the same people anymore. The tire business was sold off a number of years ago. My wife and I were there in May '23 and we toured the museum and then visited the tire store. The lady who we talked to there had been working there since before the business was sold. BTW, there are several very interesting things this mans video didn't capture, like the wooden wheel shop.
The high tire price profits bought all the collector cars! Also the “books” showing those huge profits helped to determine the selling price of the business…which explains the continued high prices of the tires!@@markchapmon8670
The Corvette appears to be a 1967, 1966's had 3 vertical "gills" behind the front wheels.
Great info - thanks!
Never heard of a "Stootz" before
That makes two of us!
A '55 Chevy is NOT A COUPE ! It was and still is a hardtop.
Thanks Robert!
umm...erm...ahh...how do you get 190SL when the trunk lid says 300SL?
It’s a special gift
Chalmers wasn‘t it the company that merged with Maxwell? And then Walter Chrysler installed his Dodge factory there?
Had to look that one up and yes you're right! Chalmers to Maxwell which ultimately formed the foundation of Chrysler.
It’s a 300SL
Don't know how I managed to miss that one. It's on the trunk and the display placard 😳
300 SL
This SL has not the single round front headlights and it has the racing folding door handles and it has not the red round knob headlights from the 190 Limousine so it is no 190 SL , it is a 300 SL 1957 to 1963… 1 million euro on wheels…
Thanks again Benny - 300 SL is written on the trunk which for some reason I didn’t see at the time!
A 1969 XK E-Type must be a MK 1b or MK 2 version….
Yep definitely too late to be a Mark I despite my commentary
wow, this guy can't pronounce the cars names
I may have got Jaguar but the lesser known US marks - still a WIP!
I say old chap, you need to learn your American automobiles before recording.
Agreed - definitely a WIP. Gotta start somewhere I guess!
Get an American to narrate