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Them they have to court corporate sponsors for more big bucks. that will mean the lemays are told they ll have to sacrifice their control and vision of the museum. the family agrees but soon find themselves just 2 on a board of around 30. on the one hand you want to see the legacy and the story of those cars preserved. on the other hand, you really can t control once it s in a museum s hands. exactly. the museum adds cars from other collections to attract national attention, then fundraising runs tight. the board tells the family they don t have the budget to preserve arld the harold s cars. many of the ones he donated are redundant. they decide on a fate that harold lemay would have never considered. to sell some of the cars. if you could have controlled the situation would you have asked them to sell other cars? i don t sell many cars. ....
Classic cars only harold knew he had. we would open the door that hadn t been opened in decades. it would be full of cars that had been there for years. covered with cottonwood flower like snow on the inside of the building. and there were bumblebee fords, convertibles, pierce arrows, and cars that were so unique. in all, larry and his team locate, number and value 2973 cars, not including the countless rusted half wrecked hulk. i believe his goal was to have one of every car ever made. larry s not allowed to say what the whole collection is worth, but independent estimates peg it at $100 million at the time of harold s death. with the inventory complete, the family tries to realize harold s dream of a car museum but starts hitting some roadblocks. creating a museum is like ....
he had lots of those rare cars, rickenbacker, 80. the rolls royce. right. right. great story. with every car there s always a story. now i ve appraised hundreds of thousands of cars in my lifetime. it s always the story sometimes that goes along with the car. why did you want it. and i think harold he knew cars and he knew what was spoegsal. one car had a jet engine in it built by a bowing engineer. how many people have a jet engine car? i m not allowed to say. right. did you feel at some point we re never going to get this done? we re never going to get all the way through? did it seem insurmountable? no, i didn t think i would never get to the end. i was sort of let down. every year they would call and say, come get the cars. i said, what do you mean? ....
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Cars started even before he could reach the peddle. nancy lemay is harold s widow. his mother said from the time he was born he loved the cars. he loved anything with wheels. harold was born in 1919 to marie lemay. she was struggling to make a living and care for three young children. when harold is just 3, marie feels she has no choice but to place harold in the custody of friends who can better take care of him. when the couple comes to pick up harold they re driving a 1914 baby grand chevy. harold was a little apprehensive. he had not met them before. he was only 3. he was only 3. as he described, the portly man said harold, you need to sit on my lap and you can drive the car home. little harold puts his hands on the wheel of that chevy and ....