One of the more under-the-radar stories that came out over the past year was the revelation that a dingy former fire station in the down-on-its-luck Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke housed a massive stash of a Fast and the Furious fanboy's wet dream stored inside. Yes, a multitude of MKIV Supras, E46 BMW M3s, Honda S2000s, and many more were all sitting on racks among the luxurious confines of a former municipal facility converted to the fashionable hideout of a massive hustler of the devil's lettuce.
The story is absolutely bananas, with no one really knowing what was inside the old station house until one Cory Taylor was stopped by police and found to have a respectable 138 pounds of Mary-Jane in his van. Mr. Taylor posted a measly $2,000 in bail money, skipped his next hearing, and was later found dead in an abandoned warehouse amongst circumstances that are still listed as "suspicious" months later. Note that the police are not exactly spending a lot of time finding his killer if there was one.
The collection included no fewer than 13 MKIV Supras, including one with just under 23,000 original miles on the clock. There was also a '93 with just over 8,000 miles on the odometer. With the rest of the collection consisting of BMW M3s, Honda S2000s, Mitsubishi Evolutions, and a Nissan 350Z, he really did just buy what was featured predominantly in the F&F movies. It's like he was the cheaper, criminally-active version of Paul Walker, but with far fewer E36 M3 LTWs in his stash.
I recently traded a few messages with one of the buyers of several of the Supras that went up for auction after the assets of this ill-gotten collection were seized. He tells me that they grabbed a non-running black Supra and two of the pristine white Supras that came up for grabs. Wisely, they also jumped on two of the E46 cars for the rare color codes, which included a super desirable Phoenix Yellow car and another featuring an Imola Red exterior over Impulse Black leather. Both M3s are six-speed cars and the Phoenix Yellow example is stunning.
The lesson here? If your property abuts an abandoned police precinct that occasionally has lights on inside, maybe peek in the windows from time to time.