My boss at the pizza shop had a friend who is really into cars and older race cars specificly. His friend apparently has a pretty massive collection in amsterdam. Multiple gt350,gt500 shelbys, supercharged ford gt, older jaguars and bugatis, ferarris, list goes on. I have a flash drive he gave me that has 95 pics of the whole thing on it and ill post em shortly. Just wondering if maybe boxersix, mafdark or anyone knew of it and seen it before?
yeah i think hes in Broadalbin , he owns Taylor made
i think the name is Jim Taylor
Yeah its the owner of Taylor Made. The collection is pretty awesome.
taylor made golf company?
I think they make boat accessories. Saw this collection on some tv show a while back. Pretty nice stuff he has.
they do make boat accessories, he’s a pretty cool guy from the few times i’ve spoke with him. i’ve never seen his collection tho
I WANNA SEE “HIS COLLECTION” TOO
I saw it in 2007 , it’s pretty friggin awesome, he has one of every year Shelby or so it seemed
WHERE ARE THE PICS?
They did a story on channel 6 news about the guy awhile back. Showed his collection.
It’s funny that you posted this saturday. I was actually sitting next to Jim Menneto (Hemmings motor news) and another individual from the auto museum’s board on a plane back to Albany on Friday and we were talking about this collection and a couple others in the area that I didn’t know about. apparently volunteers at the Saratoga Auto Museum often get to go to these local/private collections and check them out.
It’s definitely interesting to hear exactly how many substantial collections are in the area. I had only heard about one of them.
Jim is a great guy, my father has worked for him for years and they’re very close. He’s always bringing something new in, and while I haven’t been there in a year or two my father keeps me up to date on his new acquisitions. I believe he’s done a rally on every continent.
holy shit, xj220. I’m in love.
Anyone have a full list?
edit, I wonder if his gulf oil Ford GT is the one I saw at fairfield.
edit 2: nope, the one I saw had a Mass. plate.
I think that ford gt has 4 miles on it. I have to get this flash drive to load up.
My neighbor does business with him and has seen the collection and I met him once though Greg Heck (alpin haus) a few years ago. He employs a dude that “maintains” the collection full time! BADASS job! The guy is a nice dude for sure.
Ask him about the time he booted on the “#9” GT in the top pic going up the parking lot at Alpin Haus, over corrected and almost took out a boat! LOL
His son used to work full-time at the garage maintaining the collection, not sure if he’s still there or if he brought someone new in.