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The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Just read about this upcoming auction on the AACA Forum, have any of you Model A guys seen the collection? Sure looks like some fine cars are in there. I'm going to double my Lotto ticket buying this month.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Wow that looks like it will be an interesting sale.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Thos one would be interesting too.http://images29.fotki.com/v290/photo...re002vi-vi.jpg
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago I have seen this collection but have been waiting to hear the outcome of it.
Any more info? He had a '31 AA Paddy Wagon originally used by the Chicago Police Department. Here are some youtube videos put up a few weeks ago that try to show how much stuff is there. This is one of those places where you can spend three days and STILL not see everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBJ962eRGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47qCXxoKwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQZbDC4BakU Several motorcycles from the 1900's and teens. 30+ Model A's. Crazy cars. Supposedly half a million license plates. The place is just amazing. -Tim |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Thank you WTSHNN ! Took all three tours, guess Lee was the roll model for a lot of us. The sad thing is a life time collection of things he loved with turn into a pile of cash, I really hope it goes to someone that appreciates it.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago WTSHNN .............................
Thanks for posting that ! That looks like a very good sale. The vehicles, probably, will not go for a bargin price, but, I bet the smaller collectibles will. It's actually good that a hoard, like this, will be broken up and will be owned by owners, who will restore them and put them back on the road. MIKE :) |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Unbelievable,!! Thanks for the video's..
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Thanks for posting! No kidding, I got to tripple up on my lottery ticket purchasing too!!! What do you guys think this would sell for as a lot??
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Great question, we could start another thread guessing what the total take will be on the collection sale. It is one mans lifetime collection of parts and vehicles he loved, so they were priceless to him.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago After watching this all I can say is ho-lee-cow. Any my wife acustes me of keeping too much stuff.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago HE WHO DIES WITH THE "MOST TOYS "WINS" He is up there on the list! HOLY %$#@. Anyone needing a kidney???? I just might have one for sale ... AA Paddy wagon is very neat... to own.... Steve S. are you coming out of the clouds yet over the old Motorcycle's ??? A couple of 33/34 Fords there too! Guess we can all say {boys there still out there!} and Thank You Mr. Hartung...for saving the stuff. where ever you are...
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Lee Roy Hartung collection....the heck with the car and motorcycle stuff !!! did ya'll see the old stoves and lamps and dolls and pottery and glassware and....... LOL
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago RM Auctions website does not list this auction yet, but they have a link to receive a free weekly email on coming events.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago I didnt think any thing like this was still around. Looks like he has every thing from A to Z
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Sadly, most of the cars are in less than ideal shape. They have spent the past 3(?) decades in an unheated pole barn type enclosure with a dirt/crushed stone floor. Every few years the place would flood and the water would be up over the running boards on some of them. If you look, you see that a lot of the cars appear to be low in the back and high in the front; that is because they have sunk into the ground.
However, there is still some amazing stuff there. There are rumors of him having trailers full of parts. He once told me he has a property in Wisconsin that had 40+ pre-war Indians and dozens of Model T's. Another rumor is that the entire collection could have been bought while he was living for an easy million. I don't think he'd ever do that. His wife and daughter both died years ago and the museum was not only his thing but it was also a way to get people to come visit him. He had a story for every single thing he had and could tell you where he got it from. You asked "do you have xyz..." he'd wander over to the other side of the barn and sure enough, there it was. Was truly an amazing collection. I guess it still is. -Tim |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Thanks Tim, did anyone take the time to tape or write all that info down? Not knowing the history of all that stuff is a real loss. If he has no family left who will benefit from this sale?
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago WTF!!! That is unreal!!! I must see the sale, once in a lifetime opportunity!!!! I'm in in shock after the videos, thanks
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago I keep wondering what the neighborhood looks like, is it inside the city limits or out in the country. Were are we going to park all the trucks & trailers during the auction? How many weeks will the auction run?
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago I'll take my chance with the water up to the running boards.They look a hell better then what some of us are finding today..1933/34 Fords and they look to be rag tops. yummy//
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Pete, this is an unbelievable pile. Not only A's but early V8's. The m/c stuff is tremendous. I'm going for the Henderson parts that are buried.
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I thought you would go for those three coast guard cutter models tom |
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It is most definitely suburbs. I believe the museum is located on his family's farm land that was slowly annexed away by the town or village. -Tim |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago I've got to lay down. My head is spinning and I feel a bit queezy. Brain overload.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago What is the car with the two grills? I've never seen anything like that. Also looks like there is an ad for it too.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50256
November 3 - 5. In Glenview, IL a Northern suburb of Chicago. |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Here is a whole set of pictures from a Harley Club that visited some years ago. The emphasis is on Motorcycles but you get the point...
http://www.harley-davidson-hangout.c...-location.html http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...indian1912.jpg 1912 Indian on the back of a 30/31 Pickup... As for the dual-grill Lincoln, here is some information about it from Hemmings. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2...ellow-machine/ http://images.hemmings.com/wp-conten...chine_lede.jpg It is going to be a truly remarkable auction. Hope it doesn't rain! -Tim |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Im Thinking...would be a trip of a lifetime. I wonder if there a campground near by that would still be open?
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Someone posted these shots in the AACA forum, a lot of the A's are shown here. But what is really cool is how your eye at first focuses on whatever the center piece of the picture is, a car, motorcycle, whatever and then is distracted by the stuff piled around, in and on the item. http://www.flickr.com/photos/6728458...7627483956753/
Wick: Can't help you with campgrounds in that area. I'm a Southsider and that place is way up on the Northside. I'm already planning on attending the auction and probably going to commute from home as it is about an hour drive for me. Can you tell I'm excited? -Tim |
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Question: Will Hershey see a lot of great stuff for sale by guys trying to raise funds for this auction? Thanks fopr all the additional photo links, saw two more items I'd love to own.
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Here are some youtube videos put up a few weeks ago that try to show how much stuff is there. This is one of those places where you can spend three days and STILL not see everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBJ962eRGc I wonder if his ashes are in that box at the very begining of this video. If it were me, and I had a collection like that, I'd have my ashes put in a blower and spread all over everything.lol. Yep, buy my stuff and you have to take a little bit of me along for the ride. I've been in hundreds of antique shops & crawled around in the most disgusting holes on earth looking for STUFF and all I had to do was make one trip to this place to see most everything I could ever want to see. Thanks for the post. |
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Going to miss the auction, will me on vacation in Spain. If I canceled my trip I still would not be able to attend as it would be hard to get there after my dear wife broke both of my arms and leggs! lol
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Yikes! like going to Hershey, but without all the walking.......
am planning to visit my daughter in northern OH around that time. very tempting to cruise over there and have a look. sort of like Harrah's collection, not too many opportunities to see something like this..... |
Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago That is a very fitting request to honor a guy that spent a lifetime collecting all that great stuff. I really hope I can get there. Bob
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Does anybody know if the museum is still open?
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Re: The Lee Roy Hartung Collection Auction = Chicago Everyday that I wake up there is more information coming to light.
Hemmings' Blog posted a short story which included the attached picture; a sign that stood at the entrance to the museum listing the cars on display. So, whilst drinking my morning coffee, I went through and typed out all of the cars, 81 total including 39 Model A's. There are still a bunch of little things that I can't make out, those are mainly the motorcycles and bikes. Also; these are only the cars/trucks inside the building. He has a lot more scattered elsewhere. http://images.hemmings.com/wp-conten...00-700x933.jpg ? marks indicate I can't decipher the sign. Top Row, Left to Right Horse Drawn Sleigh 1959 Edsel four door sedan 1941 Lincoln Zepher 12 Cylinder Continental 1936 Lincoln custom twin nose sedan Zepher 1927 Henney Limousine Four Door 1928 Model A One ton truck w/??? Rear end 1931 Model A City of Chicago Paddy Wagon 1937 Pontiac Four door sedan Left Column 1909 Model T ??? Body 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe 1937 Ford Two Door 1941 Ford Four Door 1938 Ford Two Door 1935 Ford SW Coupe 1934 Ford Phaeton 1932 Ford Two Door (??) 1932 Ford Two Door (??) 1932 Essex Terraplane 1924 Model T Four Door 1914 Model T Touring 1 Model T Touring 1916 Model T Center Door 1928 Model A Two Door 1931 Model A Sport Coupe 1930 Model A Coupe 1931 Model A Cabriolet 1928 Model A Phaeton A/T Model A/T Touring [I believe this is an A body on a T chassis] 1931 Model A Roadster ??? 19?9 Popcorn Wagon Center Left Column 1949 Veritas Roadster Convertible 1926 Hertz Touring 1924 Model T "C" Cab 1940 Mercury Deluxe Conv 1936 Ford Cabriolet 1947 Crosley Station Wagon 1931 Model A ???(1911 Pope, 1901 Wagner, 1902 "FN", 1928 Henderson) 1929 MOdel A Couple (Blk) 1934 Armstrong Sidelle 1924 Model T Peddler's Wagon 1928 Model A Special Coupe 1916 Model T Police Car 1959 Fiat Spyder Center Right Column 1958 Cadillac Eureka Hearse 1933 Ford Model C Truck 1931 Model A 1 1/2 Ton Stake Truck 1922 Studebaker Truck 1930 Model A Truck (Flatbed) 1926 Model T Two Door Sedan 1915 Model T Touring 1937 Rolls Royce Alumninum Body 1959 Bentley Four Door Sedan 1934 Sunbeam Talbot Four Door Sedan 1932 Worthington Tractor 1950 Edwards Roadster Right Column 1929 Model A Roadster Pickup 1930 Model A Four Door 1930 Model A Fire Dept Truck 1931 Model A Slantwindshield Four Door 1930 Model A Cabriolet 1928 Model A Four Door 1930 Model A Two Door 1931 Model A Coupe 1930 Model A Four Door 1928 Model A Two Door 1929 Model A Roadster Pickup 1931 Model A Four Door 1931 Model A Four Door 1931 Model A Victoria 1930 Model A Coupe 1931 Model A Pickup 1931 Model A SW Four Door 1930 Model A Coupe 1928 Model A Sport Coupe 1930 Model A Pickup 1931 Model A Panel Delivery 1931 Model A Slant Windshield Cabriolet 1930 Model A Four Door 1931 Model A Two Door 1929 Model A Phaeton -Tim |
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