Collection of 340+ vintage cars up for grabs in Canada

A British Columbia rock scaler spent forty years quietly amassing more than 340 vehicles on five acres near Tappen, from a DeLorean to a rare 1966 Pontiac Beaumont SD and a 1968 Chevelle SS396. Now he wants out, but only as a single package, house and restoration shop included, for roughly Can$1.45 million. Who has the space and the nerve to take it all at once? Read on to find out.

Somewhere on five acres of British Columbia backcountry, a stainless-steel DeLorean is sitting a few rows away from a numbers-matching Chevelle SS396 and a Pontiac most muscle car fans have never heard of, and none of them are for sale. Not individually, anyway. The man who spent forty years gathering more than 340 vehicles onto that land has decided it is time to let them go, but only as a single package, house and shop included. The price is roughly Can$1.45 million. The catch is that the buyer has to take everything. Who has the space, the money, and the nerve to inherit someone else’s forty-year obsession in one transaction, and what exactly is hiding in that grass?

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The Collector Who Never Stopped

Mike Hall started collecting at 20 years old with 50 cars, which for most people would already be a lifetime’s worth. He kept going for the next four decades. His work as a rock scaler took him along British Columbia’s backroads, and he used those trips as an excuse to keep an eye out for forgotten vehicles on farms and in fields across the province. One car led to another. By the time he decided to sell, the count had passed 340, spread across open fields, under tarps, and inside a 900-square-foot shop he built himself.

When the Hobby Outgrew the Farm

The collection did not start on its own land. Hall’s growing pile of old Dodges and Fords was accumulating at the organic farm he shared with his wife, and she eventually put her foot down. His solution was not to sell cars. It was to buy a separate five-acre property near Tappen specifically to give the vehicles, and the marriage, some breathing room. That decision is a big part of why the collection is being sold the way it is: the land, the house, the shop, and the cars grew into a single entity that Hall does not want to break apart.

The Rare Pontiac in the Weeds

Among the standouts is a 1966 Pontiac Beaumont SD, or Sport Deluxe. The Beaumont was a Canadian-market car, built on the Chevelle platform and sold through Pontiac dealers in Canada during the mid-to-late 1960s, which is why so few American enthusiasts have ever seen one in person. The Sport Deluxe was the top trim, the Canadian cousin of the Chevelle SS. Finding one at all is unusual. Finding one parked in a field alongside hundreds of other vehicles, waiting for someone to notice, is the sort of thing that makes collectors lose sleep.

A DeLorean and a Big-Block Chevelle

Two of the other headline cars could not be more different. One is a DeLorean, the stainless-steel, gullwing-door coupe that Hollywood turned into a pop culture icon. The other is a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396, a genuine big-block muscle car from the model’s peak era. Rounding out the notable names is a 1941 three-window Dodge business coupe, a prewar body style that hot rodders and restorers both prize. Those four cars alone would anchor a respectable private collection. Here they are a fraction of the inventory.

What Else Is in the Count

The 340-plus total is not a curated museum. It is a working accumulation, with muscle cars parked next to ordinary daily drivers, imports next to farm trucks, and complete cars next to parts donors. That is what forty years of “I’ll just take this one too” produces. For a buyer, that mix is both the challenge and the opportunity. Sorting it means separating the genuinely valuable from the merely old, but it also means there are almost certainly cars in the grass whose value nobody, including Hall, has fully assessed.

Buy the Farm, Literally

The full package was listed for roughly Can$1.45 million, about US$1 million at the time. That includes the five acres, the house, the restoration shop, and every vehicle on the property. Hall has refused to break up the collection or sell individual cars, which rules out the usual approach of cherry-picking the DeLorean and the Chevelle and leaving the rest. The buyer either takes it all or takes none of it. That condition narrows the field of potential buyers considerably, and it is clearly intended to.

The Math a Buyer Has to Do

Divide the asking price across 340 vehicles and the per-car number is small, but that arithmetic is misleading. Most of the vehicles are not worth restoring, and hauling, sorting, and storing hundreds of cars is an expense on top of the purchase. The real value lies in a relatively small number of desirable cars plus the land and shop. A buyer has to be comfortable paying for the whole in order to get the parts that matter, and confident enough in their own appraisal to know which parts those are before signing.

Why Owners Sell This Way

Refusing to break up a collection is not unusual among lifelong collectors. Selling piecemeal means watching the best cars leave first and being stuck with the remainder, and it also means the end of the collection as a single thing that took a lifetime to build. Selling the whole property at once lets the owner walk away cleanly and hand the project, in its entirety, to someone else. It is as much an emotional decision as a financial one, and buyers who understand that tend to negotiate more successfully.

The Canadian Backroads Angle

Part of what makes a collection like this interesting is where it came from. Rural British Columbia is not the first place most muscle car fans think to look, but decades of farm vehicles, market-specific models like the Beaumont, and cars that simply never got scrapped have left the region with a surprising amount of old iron. Hall’s collection is essentially a forty-year survey of what was sitting on those backroads, gathered onto one property by someone who spent his working life driving past it.

Who Actually Takes It On

The most likely buyer is not an individual enthusiast but someone with a business plan: a dealer, a restoration shop, or a group willing to sort, sell, and restore over several years using the shop and land as a base. For anyone in that position, a turnkey property with a workshop and hundreds of cars to work through is a rare opportunity. For everyone else, it is a story about how far one person’s obsession can go, and a reminder that some of the most interesting collections in North America are not in climate-controlled garages but in a field near Tappen.

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