Consider this gallery a little departure from our normal galleries of car shows, races, and tours of museums and professional shops. The Lee Hartung collection auction reminded us that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of small shops and places where amazing junk lives. Consider this gallery, shot by Charles Wickam as physical proof of that theory. This is a little personal shop down on the Texas/Louisiana border, one of those thousands of hidden nooks around this country where the cool stuff lives.
Of note are the awesome Gremlin, stupid clean Monte Carlo, lots of go kart stuff, and neat hot rods. Oh, there’s also the legit, original sign board that traveled the country with the original Batmobile on the show car trail. That piece of history was plucked from the trash at the George Barris shop decades ago and managed to migrate all the way to Texas before being hung in this shop.
It is dark, ain’t all that clean, and organization is a dirty word, but hot damn is this place cool!
Shop Gallery: A Hole in the Wall Packed With Killer Stuff
They say one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. I fail to see any treasure in that pile.
I love the “NOW HIRING” sign. He really should hire someone to clean that pigsty.