https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enth...er/ar-BB1dqWb8


72 Cars in TOTAL

 

I wonder who owns or owned them..
Shreveport, LA

1970 Mazda RX-7 · Coupe · Driven 1,000 miles ONLY!

 

that's the late Jose "El Loco Policia" Zeda's collection.

 

you can’t take it with you ...
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I found this site, is this the same one?
I don't recall seeing them mentioned before.
They say they're still operational.
The phone number led to a generic voicemail.

https://www.autoyas.com/US/Haughton/...%2C-and-Sales#

 

A dream - to have a 12 car garage with an attached two bedroom home - and have that kind of collection. Youbetcha I'd work on those cars and drive them.

 

Oh yeah I forgot to mention my very first car @16 before I became a MAZDA-MORON was a BMC Mini, A Mini Cooper S twin carb 850cc in British Racing Green, very small with small 11 inch wheels or was it 15, cant remember, fun little thing (same shape as white one in pic)

 

 

That's an incredible collection. Shame it appears so damp in there. Were those really Jose Zeda's cars?

 

Original Base Mini rims were 10". Got my license in one of them in 1974. The Cooper though was a hot ) version - might have got an upgrade to 11" !!

 

 

Very sad to see his collection in this state. I'm very much hoping these cars and parts find homes and owners who will appreciate and restore them if possible.

 

Update

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a3...-in-louisiana/

 

It's always very sad to hear of someone's passing and I extend my sincere condolences. How is this person's hoard news? One can only drive a car at a time.

What I saw was a huge excess of waste and as another member already stated, you cannot take it with you. The responsible thing would've been to know your own limit in life / ownership and sold the lot accordingly if you actually cared about your life's work and wanted to pass it on for future generations to enjoy. That would've been most evident rather than allowing it to fall into disarray. I will mention that it is even more sad to see that there wasn't one picture of the man, not one. Not next to his cars, not working on cars, not a picture of him racing one of his cars or even with his children for that matter. Just pictures of his way cool awesome machine cars wow. There are so many more things to be interested in-in this story than the cars he owned or worked on.

ps- imo R&T are apart of the bottom-feeder alliance of auto journalism. Their writing is of an exceptionally poor standard for such an established magazine, equating racing to being 'like a drug' is one of the most irresponsible comparisons I've ever heard and no surprise this whole thing started on fecesbook. The man's body wasn't even cold before they decided this was a hot story and types like 'hoonigan' will be shortly behind I'm sure.

 

The guy collected cars, got older and ill, and didn't plan well to sell the collection or maybe didn't really want to. Why pass judgement on him? It's his own personal property, not up to us to decide what the responsible thing to do was. Maybe there is more to the story I don't know about, but seems like the guy had a passion and lived it. Now his kid is selling off dusty cars.

 

If you would've done a little reading about it, the old guy did let it be known he was no longer able to work on his cars and was going to start selling them off.
I assume his health deteriorated rapidly.
I can relate.

He was from Puerto Rico, that's where he first got interested in rotaries.
When he moved to Louisiana his hobby became a business, and he started a shop specializing in rotaries.

For all we know, some of those cars may have been customers who couldn't afford to pay for repairs.
He may have been doing them a favor by buying them, hoping to eventually repair them, using parts from several cars to make one good one.
Maybe he was selling parts or using parts to fix customers' cars.

Life gets in the way, running a business, family matters, who knows?
They're just cars, and his family can make a few bucks selling them.

 

It makes you wonder if you took a day, went there with a few tools and a compression tester, picked out 4 or 5 seemingly decent cars and offered $2,000 each cash for them if you'd own them. It takes a while to sell off 300 cars and they may get to a point where every sale is a good sale.

 

It's an 8 hour drive due south.

 

The Story Behind a Massive Collection of Rotary Cars For Sale in Louisiana

A single post on Facebook has generated thousands of inquiries into the collection, left behind by a longtime racer and Mazda rotary fanatic.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a3...0Non%20Openers