Just how far will a fanatical collector go to capture the racecar of his obsessions? Would he carry a satchel stuffed with large sums of cash to meet a stranger in a dubious location? Or would he crawl across a filthy garage floor bare-chested over broken glass to get to the treasure? How about this one…would he or she follow all local customs and protocols to get to a car buried deep in the thatch of a nudist colony? Stay tuned as we bare all.
The fanatical collector of this month’s installment of “Hidden Treasures” is Washington-based Hot Rod devotee Pat Swanson. As you may recall from the March 2015 issue of VR, Swanson is cuckoo for Inline 12-Port speed equipment. So when he spotted an advertisement in The 12-Port News (the bimonthly publication of Inliners International) in mid-2014 he nearly jumped out of his shorts…which was certainly foreshadowing of things to come.
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