[Healeys] Non-Healey- Microcar Museum

[scott willis]

Thanks so much for the details Peter. Sad to see it go.


Scott Willis
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> From: peter.svilans at rogers.com
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:39:53 -0500
> Subject: [Healeys] Non-Healey- Microcar Museum
>
> Mr. Weiner owned Dubble Bubble chewing gum, and- appropriately- built a
> collection of "bubblecars". He put his first collection of some 40 cars
> together beginning in 1993, and shipped them to London England for auction
by
> Christies in 1997. Later that year in a tour of Europe he found a German
> museum whose proprietor was ready to retire. Missing his old collection, he
> bought the entire museum and had its contents shipped to Madison, Georgia
to
> serve as the core of a new microcar museum in a newly-erected building. The
> collection grew by leaps and bounds over the years and at one point
numbered
> 350 cars, the largest of its kind in the world. Last year he came to the
> difficult decision to part with the collection, and the February 15-16
auction
> by R-M Auctions includes two hundred cars and a great many groupings of
signs,
> toys, coin-operated machines, and memorabilia.
>
> I was fortunate to have been curator/ restorer for Mr Weiner's museum for
over
> a decade, and while I hadn't been part of the museum for a number of years,
> was surprised to be asked to write the catalog for the auction: a 5 x 5
> micro-book for micro-cars, but 850 pages thick and 60,000 words.
>
> The auction's website is here:
> http://rmauctions.com/auctions/event.cfm?SaleCode=BW13
> Go to "view Lots", click and "View More" for additional pics.
>
> Best
> Peter