Automobiliac visits Gullwing Motor Cars
Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 10:48PM Tucked away in a nondescript corner of Queens near LaGuardia airport is a warehouse where hundreds of classic cars of every type and description are nestled cheek to jowl. The effect is as if one has walked into a fastidious 9-year-old's bin of matchbox cars. Yet they are all rare and interesting classics, from pristine concours condition to barn finds with bumpers and coffee cans of parts sitting inside them. There is also an outside lot as well, and a friendly employee gave us a lift over there to inspect the two Alfa Montreals they have for sale. Amazed by the tight quarters of all the cars, we asked him what method is used for packing them in like sardines. We expected to hear that they use dollies to slide the cars into place, but the employee assured us that in fact the cars are put in place by parking them! Even after his detailed description of his technique, I am still sort of baffled. Many of these cars were about 1/2 and inch apart. I really couldn't believe it. Please enjoy the full gallery by clicking the photo below!
Exotic car dealer, Gullwing, Motor Cars, Queens in Miscellaneous
Reader Comments (5)
Great find. Someone has mucked about with the headlights on that Aston. (That's the '54 Buick look, if memory serves.) I wonder how much it would cost to have that corrected - just that, apart from everything else the car must need.
Very cool collection of cars. The Alfa Montreal pictured looks pretty bad. I would "RUN" as Montreals can be very expensive to rebuild.
I met your father at the Milwaukee Masterpiece Concours last week. He was drooling on a Bugatti Type 44 and several Alfa 2500's.
best,
Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2011-Chicago April 2011
Thanks Tom! I have seen you on the AlfaBB too, haven't I. Actually one of the two Monty's was a good resto candidate, but the other was just a mess. So very sad. I don't plan to buy one in the near future. I am enjoying the anonymity of the GTV6.
We almost went to that show in Milwaukee! I met someone at a subaru meet who gave us a flier for the show and was trying to get more modern clubs to show up (I think I sent you the vimeo link to that meet, right?). He had a white 04 sti with florida plates in case someone saw him. It was very tempting, but there was a back-road "rally" going into western wisconsin that weekend too. We opted for twisties.
But yeah, that looks like a great place to spend an afternoon!
I am on alfabb sometimes. I started the GTV6 worldwide registry thread. I own 2 of them along with to many other sports cars to list. The Milwaukee Concours was very nice.
I think they had 5 Pebble Beach 2010 winning cars on display along with around 200 other cars . The 1940's Alfa 2500's were all black and perfect.
Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2011-Chicago April 2011