The Wisconsin stash of Don Schlag, 21 semitrailers full or rare parts and rare cars

21 semitrailers stuffed with parts and cars. Don locked the trailers, welded the doors shut himself and parked them tail-to-tail on flattened tires. No, he didn't just keep opeing the doors and looking at the cool collection he'd compiled.

He went to every swap meet. He took a trip to California every year in his RV and would return towing a trailer full of parts that would vanish into his stash. He bought whole cars that never seemed to show up on Wisconsin streets again.

Larry wound up paying Don's heirs a "mid-six-figure" sum for all the pieces. And except for a couple of cars he sold himself and two Corvettes kept by Don's nephews, he sold the entire lot to another collector, Scott Milestone, for half again as much money. As this is being written, Scott is in the process of uncrating and reshelving all the various components into an East Coast warehouse.

Here are just some of the jems in the collection of 14 nice, low-mileage cars more than 150 high-performance engines have been found that Don stored away
1. '57 Corvette-Original fuel injection. Big fuel tank and big brakes.
2. '57 Corvette-Original dual quads. Big fuel tank and big brakes.
3. '63 Corvette coupe-Original fuel injection. Production number 480.
4. '64 Corvette roadster-Original fuel injection. Four-speed. Both tops.
5. '67 Corvette roadster-427 with Tri-power. 37,000 miles.
6. '74 Corvette coupe-454 big-block. 14,000 miles.
7. '72 Camaro Z28-Four-speed.
8. '67 Camaro RS/SS coupe-350 and four-speed. Fair condition.
9. '69 Yenko Camaro-37,000 miles.
10. '70 Chevelle SS454-Automatic with bucket seats.
11. '70 Chevelle SS454-Four-speed, bench seat
http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/hrdp_0608_don_schlag_chevy_car_collector/index.html

a complete engine for a 1969 Camaro Z/28 engine, a DZ-302 that’s complete down to the breather, one of approximately six such engines found, and the cast-iron COPO 427-cid engine block.
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/Huge_muscle_car_stash_found/

Did you know that the last 50 Yenko Duece's made were built by Hurst under direction of Don Yenko?

photo via: http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/445104,8953/1970-Chevrolet-Nova_photo.aspx

50 were made by Hurst,
.... 10 were made in Hugger Orange: but only one was delivered with Hurst 5 spokes, only one was made with white hockey stripes
.... 10 were made in Sunflower Yellow
.... 10 were made in Citrus Green
These colors were called Springtime Colors
...the remaining 20 were a mix of Cranberry Red and Fathom Blue

Linda Vaughn was in Hurst's parking lot after they were made, she was "practicing" on them, and doing burnouts... Muscle Car Review August 2010 issue, pages 74 to 78

Cool stuff from Ze Last Chance Garage

BMW plant 1923

John was catching some light under all four tires

When is the last time you saw advertising for a Nash?

Nice streamlining around the spreader bar

I'd love to see a full gallery about this racecar! It's the J. A. Preston “Cyclecar”.

What a beauty!

No idea why the rotary engine is flanked by elephant tusks.

Goofy 60's kooky kustom show cars. I dig the Woodlight headlights on the one below

All bent out of shape, and I doubt it landed on the rubber

What an idea, a scooter that is strong enough to pull a small teardrop

All via the cool variety posted on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

understated advertising from icons of racing and hot rodding, Keith Black, Yenko, Lil John Buttera, McCreary

for more of these see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/hot-rodding-icon-companies.html

5 Barn find Corvettes (in one barn in California) and a Yenko Duece (unrelated find)

Corvette barn finds via: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/tesouros-bem-guardados/

Yenko barn find via: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/06/01/musclepalooza-ix-barn-find-yenko-deuce/