It's an impressive collection, even if it's not the exact same cars that I, (or any of you), would have. It has a little bit of the dreaded "Saudi prince" or "Saddam's sons" feel to it, where someone has an unlimited bank account and simply buys every expensive car that he ever reads about in a magazine or something. There are people in this world with so much $$ that they don't know how to spend it.
I was at a party a few weeks ago at the house of a well-known modern art collector in L.A., he had Warhols and Lichtensteins and Ed Rushas and this and that up the wing-wang. There was a coffee table book of his collection, (on his coffee table of course),
A buddy of mine who is an artist was flipping through the book and asked the guy about a Larry Rivers painting in the book, guy said, "sold it." Oh. How 'bout this one? Where is it? "Got rid of it."
The point of it is that the guy had some of the most valuable pieces and sets but probably had zero connection to any of it and certainly had no vision, he simply bought any and everything that was "hot" or expensive. Like the blind squirrel who finds a nut, or the right-winger who makes a salient point around here,
, he buys plenty of great schit by accident. Or should I say, using his extremely flawed system. The art collector's motivation was to be a hot-shot in a town full of them and with no looks/talent/charm he was left with a huge bag of money and a need to be "cool".
I've written before about the car collector that I worked for in HS in the '70s. He had about 10 Ferraris and it was a more impressive collection than this 2008 one, IMO. He shared a hidden, underground garage with 2 other collectors, one had the top classic car in the country at the time, (a Duesenburg SJ), along w/ a Pierce Arrow and a gaggle of V-12 and V-16 Cadillacs from the '20s and early '30s. The third guy had special interest cars like a 1960 triple-white Eldorado rag-top w/ factory tri-power and
1200 original miles that still had the clear plastic on the seats from factory.
Those guys had a vision about what they liked.
I think that Seinfeld is a great collector even though his collection is narrow, (Porsches), it reflects one man's obsession. Same w/ Reggie Jackson's, he was a great collector.