He specialized in leveraged buyouts in the 1980s, shot distant landscapes and wildlife from helicopters, then collected so many motorcycles that he opened a museum.
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Dallas’ Bobby Haas’ unlikely journey from financier to filmmaker
After making his mark in finance, photography and motorcycles, Haas thinks that making a movie is just the ticket.
Dallas financier Bobby Haas poses with partner and museum director Stacey Mayfield in the main exhibit hall of his Haas Moto Museum & Sculpture Gallery in the Design District in Dallas. Haas has made a documentary film called “Leaving Tracks” about the world of rare and custom motorcycles.(Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor)
Bobby Haas made a fortune in the leveraged buyout business, became a daredevil aerial photographer for
National Geographic, learned to ride a motorcycle and then built a world-class moto museum in the Dallas Design District to show off his rapidly growing collection.