Canadian Man Selling Five Acres of Land and Over 340 Project Cars Near Monster-infested Lake

If you’re a god-tier automotive enthusiast looking for more vintage project cars than you could ever finish before your death (and don’t mind living in rural Canada), then we have good news for you. There’s a five-acre property for sale in picturesque southern British Columbia that’s perfectly suitable for ignoring while you wrench away on more than 340 classic cars that are included in the deal.

For $1.45 million, you can be the proud owner of a restoration shop, a sizable hangar, and enough steel to build five more on a property already zoned for auto salvage.

The land sits alongside B.C.’s White Post Auto Museum and is only a few minutes’ drive from Shuswap Lake — which is rumored to shelter a 25-foot prehistoric monster known as the Shuswaggi. Cryptozoologists believe the beast to be a surviving basilosaurus, meaning there could be an entire family of ancient whales for you to hunt when you aren’t organizing row after row of mid-century automobiles. If you aren’t into cryptid spotting, mentioning old Shuswaggi could also be a good way to haggle down the price.

Of course, the seller might think you’re insane if you suggest $1.45 million is too much to pay for a property so close to monster-infested waters. However, owner Mike Hall might also have a few screws loose, as he values the vintage vehicles at anywhere between $500 to $35,000 a pop. Assuming the majority are in half-decent shape, that’s the bulk of the property value right there.

Hall’s collection consists largely of old two-doors with a strong bias toward trucks from the 1940s and muscle cars form the late 1960s. Some of the standouts include a 1966 Pontiac Beaumont, 1927 Ford Model T pickup, 1964 Chevrolet Malibu convertible, and a 1947 Mercury Ute imported from Australia. The lot and buildings are also populated by dozens of vintage station wagons, vans, and a handful of sedans.

“I started accumulating cars when I was 20,” Hall, now 60, told Driving.ca. “First it was 50 cars. Then the collection grew to 100. I bought more and more. It’s easy to buy them when you’re working. It’s like an addiction. With 100 cars, 200 seemed better, and now it’s well past 300 … I was away 10 months of the year working around the province. I made more money than I knew what to do with, so I would buy cars all across B.C.”

Hall was asked by his wife to stop bringing cars to their farm, so he purchased the five-acre property in Tappen but never made effective use of it. He has a few specific projects he wants to focus on but knows he’ll never get around to the majority of his massive collection. “I’m 60 years old and won’t live long enough to restore these cars,” he said.

If you want to carry the torch, the property listing is still up on Century 21. The on-site refurbished home may be little more than a shack but, depending on how you feel about scrapyards, it’s still a gorgeous plot of land.

[Images: Century 21]