short video tour of "Brothers Collection" of Mopars in Oregon

[Dakota]

The link below will take you on a 5 minute tour of the Mopar portion of a car collection based in Oregon.        l

I have to wonder if these cars ever get driven.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FrslGKguM

[Marty]

 

[torredcuda]

It`s cool and depressing at the same time - nice to see all those awesome cars but sad to see them stuck in a warehouse never to be driven.

[Dakota]

It`s cool and depressing at the same time - nice to see all those awesome cars but sad to see them stuck in a warehouse never to be driven.

[anlauto]

Beautiful collection, but disgusting that these guys are gobbling up all the best cars....however I guess it's not like anybody else could afford them anyways 

[JH27N0B]

If you watch the Muscle Car of the Week channel on YouTube, most of the cars featured are from the Brothers collection.  The cars usually get driven, albeit briefly, in the videos.
So at least some of the cars get driven on rare occasion.  They also bring a group of cars to MCACN every year.  And although it's a private museum, they so host events where enthusiasts get to see the collection.
Still a hoard of cars that's mostly buried away, but I've seen many other collections where the owners rarely if ever take the cars out or let anyone see them, so the Brothers do deserve some credit for sharing their collection with the others through private events at their facility, taking cars to MCACN, and making their cars available for the Muscle Car of the Week video series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9UNNTqegM

[anlauto]

You have to wonder what the future holds for a collection like this ? I'm assuming these guys are not going to live forever...

[torredcuda]

If you watch the Muscle Car of the Week channel on YouTube, most of the cars featured are from the Brothers collection.  The cars usually get driven, albeit briefly, in the videos.
So at least some of the cars get driven on rare occasion.  They also bring a group of cars to MCACN every year.  And although it's a private museum, they so host events where enthusiasts get to see the collection.
Still a hoard of cars that's mostly buried away, but I've seen many other collections where the owners rarely if ever take the cars out or let anyone see them, so the Brothers do deserve some credit for sharing their collection with the others through private events at their facility, taking cars to MCACN, and making their cars available for the Muscle Car of the Week video series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9UNNTqegM

Ooooh, a car or two trailered to one show a year and a couple videos - that must be so hard to maintain/clean them after all that use! (hint of sarcasm there)  but  I guess it`s better than never seeing them out.

[kdcarman]

You have to wonder what the future holds for a collection like this ? I'm assuming these guys are not going to live forever...

You can bet Dana over at Mecum has the brothers on speed dial.

[JH27N0B]

The Brothers collection did actually sell a car at a Mecum auction recently.  A V code Challenger convertible.
I was surprised when I heard that later after the auction that it was theirs.  I didn't know they ever sold anything.  I had heard they had stopped buying cars.
There was a collector in my area who had a really impressive collection of mostly Hurst cars.  I saw the collection one time, I think there was about 40 cars all in a building in an industrial complex that looked like it might have formerly been a machine shop or something.  He had a guy he'd hired to help care for the collection and everything was well organized and clean.
Someone told me he sold off most of the collection not long ago, as he didn't use many of the cars and is thinking of moving.
Wellborn buys cars but regularly sells cars too.  He has a museum that I believe has open hours for visitors as opposed to being private by invite only like the Brothers collection and how Steve Juliano's was.
In the end, people can do what they wish with their money.  If I had 10s of millions of dollars I'd no doubt have a pretty big car and automotive memorabilia collection myself, and have caretakers and mechanics on my staff to care for them.
I can understand the Bernie Sanders and AOC argument that it's not fair for greedy rich people to have all these cars and they should be evenly distributed among the workers in the name of fairness, but that doesn't mean I agree with it! 

[anlauto]

I met the Wellborns at your MCACN show in Chicago once, fantastic people, vey welcoming....has anybody ever met "The Brothers" 

[JH27N0B]

They are very elusive so it may be that some have met them and don't even know it!
They have "people" who bring their cars to MCACN and take care of them at the show.
I know someone who restored a car for them, and never talked to them.  They had a representative who handled all the logistics and taking care of getting the bills paid.
They are in some religion where they can't do anything on Saturdays, in fact the guy I know who restored their car was instructed no work was to be done on their project on a Saturday.
Whatever the case, these collectors come and go, and the collections get amassed then at some point get sold.  Remember 20 years ago when Bill Weimann was the talk of the town with his collection?  He had both the first and last hemi cuda convertibles made.  I remember reading a feature on the red '70 one time and he said it had no value, as he would never sell it at any price!
https://www.motortrend.com/features/1971-plymouth-barracuda-hemi/
He disappeared maybe 2010 ish?  Cars got sold, in fact I think the Brothers have both those convertibles now.  I heard somewhere that Wiemann lost his fortune in the great recession real estate crash?
So if you are young enough and have enough patience, start saving your money up, some day the car you dream of from the Brothers collection will likely be for sale again.