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Old 08-06-2013, 01:05 PM
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interesting business plan, antique car storage + restoration

Last weekend was working on my plan to visit every diner in the state with the fiance, and on the way back noticed a car show and decided to take a look.
The car show was held at this place-

Park Place Holdings | A controlled storage facility for classic and collectible cars in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

The doors were open and we were allowed to sort of wander in a little fully supervised by an employee. Pretty amazing place, some of the cars in there were incredible. There was a showpiece looked like 20s or 30s benz in the front office area that must have been nearly 25 feet long. It was absolutely huge. The guy wouldn't allow me to take pictures unfortunately. "most of our clients prefer to remain anonymous" is what he told me.

The business concept I find interesting, I saw one sign that listed storage costs at 25 bucks a day.
If someone were to float the idea to me, I would have doubted it would be successful, as thats just over 9 grand a year storing your car. I figured someone who had the cash to blow that much money on storage might just build their own climate controlled garage, but then again, im not sure if that price reflects keeping the vehicle in tune or whatnot. The place was pretty packed, and the guy did say a lot of cars were out being driven this time of year, so I would have been proven wrong. I guess if you have a multi hundred thousand dollar vehicle, under 10 grand a year is piddling.

I counted about 15 mercedes in there, some of them really old including that monster one, and a couple AMG looking cars 80s vintage. No one was storing any 123s though.

I wish I could describe the big 20s-30s looking MB. Im wondering what it was. The biggest thing I can remember at this moment is that it had a prow shaped vertical grill that folded back towards either side, and it didn't have just one star in the middle, it had a pair of MB stars facing out from either side of the grill. I have to do research, but it was a pretty impressive car
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