This guy's stuff is museum quality, but I'm not sure there's a museum big enough to hold all his crap. It's his personal tribute to the 50's and 60's. Curious where he got his money to collect all this stuff.
He has over 200 fully functional machine guns including a 50 cal M-60 machine gun mounted in his bedroom window that he fires outside. A jeep that he drives to town with a Gatling gun mounted on the roof and several other mounted machine guns that are fired electronically from inside - all legal (or so he says). Dozens of classic cars (most worth 6 figures) and many are equipped with blowers and are street legal - in fact, he has the only street legal fuel dragster that he drives on the road.
Thousands of model cars, bicycles, gas pumps, Elvis nostalgia, etc. In fact, he's built a 65,000 sq. ft warehouse just to house all his crap that doesn't fit in his house and garage...and there isn't a square foot of area that isn't stocked with something whether it's the house of warehouse.
Not sure whether to laugh at the guy, laugh with the guy, or feel sorry for him for spending his life collecting junk (really nice junk) that he can't take with him one day. I hope he has a contract worked out with a variety of museums to pass on some day because it doesn't appear that he's ever been married or has anyone to hand things down to.
Dragon Man shows off his toy collection - (
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a lot of that stuff is better than the stuff in the Smithsonian. If they wanted to do a 50's/60's exhibit I don't see it better than this.
http://gazette.com/dragon-mans-fire-after-stunning-tragedy-tough-guy-over-colorado-gun-empire-has-gotten-tougher/article/1596032 - ( New Window )
After reading that article I come away with the opinion that he is indeed a selfish fucked-up scumbag who lives vicariously through his collection. To the point where he puts it above family
Same with guns. I have a few really sweet guns that took me a long time to accumulate after much research and saving - and each has a different purpose. But what can you do with hundreds of rare and expensive machine guns?
This is a case where "less is more". To really appreciate an item like a classic car or a fine firearm - it can't be one of many. I've always wondered the same thing about Jay Leno's car collection.
On a side note, the second article doesn't say how he got his money or whether or not he won his lawsuit against Disney. My bet is, Disney paid for most of his crap.
He said he fires it out the window sometimes. I LOL'd when I read that because I've fired M16 and M4's and it's kind of exhilarating to shoot them at targets and things. If I had space and was grandfathered in to own a firearm like that I could see myself doing that.
the gatling gun on the jeep is insane. i think he said he drives that to transport firearms he's licensed to sell. WTF?
According to the second article, he has a collection of tanks...LOL
From the article: "There's a hangar of tanks and 80 other war vehicles, including the machine gun-mounted vehicle he drove to get bagels the other day."
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