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You do boats too, I see?

And, yeah, I pay a proper price for a proper job. Though I usually don't want my tires shiny. I just don't like the look.

I'm retired and financially independent. Over the past few years, I've moved a bunch of investment money into the collector car market. I've done quite well with it, from a financial point of view. The good thing about collector cars is that they're never worth less than you paid for them at an auction. The value only goes up - unless you bought during a bubble, like the pickup truck bubble.

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We do boats, RV's, semi trucks, can-ams, pretty much any vehicle a client wants detailed we can do, but cars are usually the most common.

We are exactly the same way when it comes to tires haha. We like to use a matte finish on them, but occasionally a client will insist on the shiny stuff lol. We also never use glossy/oily interior cleaner as well because if the car is in the sun and it gets hot, it'll basically cook leather upholstery.

That's awesome! It's not a bad investment! The last photo with the boat- that client's father used to own a very successful honda and porsche dealership out here. The guy was a total car fanatic and has multiple warehouses full of classic cars and all sorts of interesting stuff. He even has the world biggest motorcycle apparently lol https://youtu.be/SkC2WRhoNjE?t=22 - this thing Here's some photos I took of it while browsing thru one of his warehouses

https://files.catbox.moe/tkq479.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/w4llra.jpg

These last 2 photos I took were of his warehouse, it doesn't even show half of what is in there! It's like walking into a time capsule

https://files.catbox.moe/4gny0b.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/hxm1ba.jpg

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LOL He sounds a bit like me.

It's kinda embarrassing to say this sorta stuff to people I don't really know. I am having a 4th one built, but I have 3 'barns' already. They're 80' x 100' metal buildings that look like barns from the outside. I'm actually a licensed used car dealership because I sell enough cars and am required to have the license. Well, technically one of my employees are.

The positive note is that I get a half-dozen dealer plates. This means I can avoid registering them all. They're obviously well insured.

I make enough selling cars to be able to pay for two full-time mechanics. Basically, I cheated. and hired both of them straight out of a 4 year automotive engineering college. They both had employment agreements before they even got their degree.

Life has been good to me so far.

This coming year, I'm looking to bring in a photographer to do my entire collection. I figure it'll take a couple of months, but having the pics as documentation will be nice.

Oh, I stick pretty much exclusively with Mecum auctions, but I'm done doing what I had done. I'd go to an auction and end up with a dozen Pilot trucks delivering cars to me. My collection is complete - more or less. Now I'll restrict myself to one or two cars at a time, plus filling in my collection with more brand new cars.

And now you know...

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Damn, that's awesome! As they say, variety is the spice of life lol! Didn't know such good money can be made doing that but it makes sense thinking about it.

This guy had the same idea going in terms of having a full time mechanic, although he only collects them and never sells them haha. I'd imagine you'd need one though considering there's so many cars and you don't want to have any of them sitting around for too long without starting them up. If I was a full time car mechanic, working in an environment like yours or in the photos I shared would be ideal hahaha.

Getting a photographer would be a great idea imo. I always try to take before and after photos of all the cars I've detailed. I think it's nice to have just for memories sake and to show off what I've worked on in the past lol. It's also fun to go back from time to time and browse the collection of photos because a lot of them have a story attached, either about the car itself or the client.

Lol its definitely a good thing you don't have to worry about neighbors or HOA because if u had that many trucks pulling up in an area like mine, you'd have every asshole calling the association or the city up hahaha!