The auction house RM Sotheby's believes that this autumn it will have perhaps the world's largest collection of 'hoarded' cars for sale, when a wrecker's secret collection will go under the hammer.
This autumn, a German-American car wrecker's secret car collection will go under the hammer. The cars have been assembled over the course of 34 years.
This is revealed by the auction house RM Sotheby's, which will be responsible for the sale.
The cars were collected from 1967 and 34 years onwards. They all belonged to Rudl Klein, who came from Germany to the United States and settled down as an auto wrecker.
In his spare time, however, he has been something of a collector. Because when Klein died in 2021, he had collected a pile of cars. And among them are some very special and not least rare cars.
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Among other things, a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL from 1955. Also known as the Gullwing. A car that had otherwise been written off as missing. In the same place, Klein kept a 300 SL Roadster, a Porsche 356 B 1600 from 1961 and several Lamborghini Miura.
When Rudl Klein was alive, it was a publicly known secret that he kept the many rare cars in a collection. But he never let the public in.
After the wrecker's death almost a quarter of a century ago, the surviving family kept the collection. At the same time, however, they stuck to the starting point: namely that the public had no access.
Now the cars from the collection are to be sold. Whether these are all the cars Rudl Klein owned, or whether the family keeps some of them, is not known. But it is certain that it is the first time in decades that several of the cars have surfaced.
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