Five acres of land – with more than three hundred cars included – for sale in B.C.
Just some of the cars Mike Hall has collected over the years
The holder lost count, but estimates approximately three hundred forty vintage vehicles will be part of the deal
Mike Hall has a deal that his real estate ad describes as a lifetime chance that is flawless for the vintage auto enthusiast who loves to work and live in a beautiful area. The five acres he has for sale is alongside Highway one at Tappen – a one-hour drive east of Kamloops and ten minutes from Salmon Arm on Shuswap Lake.
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For $1.45 million, the successful buyer gets the property zoned for auto salvage, a renovated house, a 900-square-foot restoration shop, a 1,200-square-foot steel building and enough steel bars and rafters to build 8,000 square feet of covered space.
Oh, and he’ll throw in more than three hundred forty vintage vehicles. He values the cars and trucks at anywhere from $500 to $35,000 each.
When pressed, Hall doesn’t know exactly how many cars he has – but more than 340, and very likely considerably more. He admits to buying at least forty more cars since originally listing the property for $1.Nineteen million a year ago. The cars and trucks he has collected over the past forty years are lined up across the property like an old drive-in theatre. They sit silently rusting while waiting for fresh owners.
Mike ‘Rasta Blasta’ Hill began collecting cars when he was 20, some four decades ago.
“I embarked accumulating cars when I was 20,” says Hall, who is now sixty years old. “First it was fifty cars. Then the collection grew to 100. I bought more and more. It’s effortless to buy them when you’re working. It’s like an addiction. With one hundred cars, two hundred seemed better, and now it’s well past 300.”
He spent his career as a rock scaler – one of the guys you see stringing up on ropes above the highway picking rocks out of cliffs to ensure they don’t fall on the traffic below.
“They call me the Rasta Blasta,” he says, pridefully referring to his dreadlocks. “I was away ten 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.” He hauled them back on trailers, in the back of dump trucks and any other way he could transport them.
His hoarding began in Kamloops when he was youthful. As the collection grew, he bought a 26-acre farm and populated it with two hundred old cars and trucks. Some of the vintage vehicles he hauled home were purchased from an old wrecking yard on the property he presently is suggesting for sale.
When his wifey drew the line and insisted that he stop storing old vehicles on their organic farm, he bought the five-acre property in Tappen, which is zoned for auto wrecking – strategically next to the well-known White Post Auto Museum. He stores cars on the museum’s property as well.
Mike Hall is a bit ambiguous as to why he wants to sell his property and the vintage vehicles that he says he collected to give him something to do for his retirement. But he just got a big five-year rock-scaling contract so his retirement won’t come soon.
“I’m sixty years old and won’t live long enough to restore these cars,” he reasons. For example, he wants to build a Sunbeam Tiger that came originally with a powerful Ford V8 engine coupled to a four-speed transmission – so he collected half a dozen Sunbeam Alpine sports cars that the Tiger is based on. “I need to get to that,” he says.
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He has a row of one thousand nine hundred fifty five to one thousand nine hundred fifty seven Chevrolet two-door station wagons and sedan deliveries for future restoration that he hasn’t gotten around to. The oldest cars include a one thousand nine hundred twenty six Chevrolet roadster pickup, a one thousand nine hundred twenty seven Ford Model T pickup and a one thousand nine hundred forty seven Mercury Ute (known as a “utility” or half car, half pickup) originally from Australia.
Among the newer cars are five one thousand nine hundred ninety one Chevrolet Firefly convertibles along with two turbo coupes. “I drive one every day. It only cost $28 to pack up with premium fuel,” he says pridefully.
He has collected many muscle cars including what he describes as a bunch of Dodge Coronet and Super Bee models. There is a one thousand nine hundred sixty four Chevrolet Malibu convertible that was originally tooled with a V8 engine and four-speed transmission, and a uncommon one thousand nine hundred sixty six Pontiac Beaumont SD (Sport Deluxe) with a V8 engine and four-speed transmission – one of only forty five built. He has wielded his restored one thousand nine hundred sixty eight Chevrolet Chevelle with a big-block 396-cubic-inch engine and four-speed transmission for thirty years.
“I don’t sell parts, only project cars,” he says. He also restores cars, which is very labour intensive and time consuming. “I just finished a Dodge Challenger and am now doing a ground-up restoration on a one thousand nine hundred sixty six Plymouth Satellite convertible for a customer.”
His property has been listed for sale all winter and has not created the interest he had hoped – even with the three hundred forty cars thrown in as a bonus. “I haven’t had one suggest but it was winter and you couldn’t even see the cars,” he reports. “They were covered in six feet of snow.”
Listing agent Hudson Purba of Century twenty one Desert Hills Realty in Kamloops remains optimistic about the suggesting
“It’s not just purchasing the cars, land and buildings. It is about a lifetime chance to spend time doing what people like: restoring vintage cars and living in one of the most beautiful parts of B.C. That value is more than the asking price.”
Meantime, Mike Hall resumes to haul cars back to the property from all over B.C., including a one thousand nine hundred forty one Plymouth coupe that he just couldn’t stand against.
“Every day, I’m ripped about selling the property with the cars. I’m still buying cars. It’s like a sickness that I’m not getting over.”
Five acres (with more than three hundred cars! ) for sale in B
Five acres of land – with more than three hundred cars included – for sale in B.C.
Just some of the cars Mike Hall has collected over the years
The possessor lost count, but estimates approximately three hundred forty vintage vehicles will be part of the deal
Mike Hall has a deal that his real estate ad describes as a lifetime chance that is ideal for the vintage auto enthusiast who loves to work and live in a beautiful area. The five acres he has for sale is alongside Highway one at Tappen – a one-hour drive east of Kamloops and ten minutes from Salmon Arm on Shuswap Lake.
Local Pricing & Incentives
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
See what your neighbours are paying
For $1.45 million, the successful buyer gets the property zoned for auto salvage, a renovated house, a 900-square-foot restoration shop, a 1,200-square-foot steel building and enough steel planks and rafters to build 8,000 square feet of covered space.
Oh, and he’ll throw in more than three hundred forty vintage vehicles. He values the cars and trucks at anywhere from $500 to $35,000 each.
When pressed, Hall doesn’t know exactly how many cars he has – but more than 340, and very likely considerably more. He admits to buying at least forty more cars since originally listing the property for $1.Nineteen million a year ago. The cars and trucks he has collected over the past forty years are lined up across the property like an old drive-in theatre. They sit silently rusting while waiting for fresh owners.
Mike ‘Rasta Blasta’ Hill began collecting cars when he was 20, some four decades ago.
“I began accumulating cars when I was 20,” says Hall, who is now sixty years old. “First it was fifty cars. Then the collection grew to 100. I bought more and more. It’s effortless to buy them when you’re working. It’s like an addiction. With one hundred cars, two hundred seemed better, and now it’s well past 300.”
He spent his career as a rock scaler – one of the guys you see stringing up on ropes above the highway picking rocks out of cliffs to ensure they don’t fall on the traffic below.
“They call me the Rasta Blasta,” he says, pridefully referring to his dreadlocks. “I was away ten 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.” He hauled them back on trailers, in the back of dump trucks and any other way he could transport them.
His hoarding commenced in Kamloops when he was youthful. As the collection grew, he bought a 26-acre farm and populated it with two hundred old cars and trucks. Some of the vintage vehicles he hauled home were purchased from an old wrecking yard on the property he presently is suggesting for sale.
When his wifey drew the line and insisted that he stop storing old vehicles on their organic farm, he bought the five-acre property in Tappen, which is zoned for auto wrecking – strategically next to the well-known White Post Auto Museum. He stores cars on the museum’s property as well.
Mike Hall is a bit ambiguous as to why he wants to sell his property and the vintage vehicles that he says he collected to give him something to do for his retirement. But he just got a big five-year rock-scaling contract so his retirement won’t come soon.
“I’m sixty years old and won’t live long enough to restore these cars,” he reasons. For example, he wants to build a Sunbeam Tiger that came originally with a powerful Ford V8 engine coupled to a four-speed transmission – so he collected half a dozen Sunbeam Alpine sports cars that the Tiger is based on. “I need to get to that,” he says.
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He has a row of one thousand nine hundred fifty five to one thousand nine hundred fifty seven Chevrolet two-door station wagons and sedan deliveries for future restoration that he hasn’t gotten around to. The oldest cars include a one thousand nine hundred twenty six Chevrolet roadster pickup, a one thousand nine hundred twenty seven Ford Model T pickup and a one thousand nine hundred forty seven Mercury Ute (known as a “utility” or half car, half pickup) originally from Australia.
Among the newer cars are five one thousand nine hundred ninety one Chevrolet Firefly convertibles along with two turbo coupes. “I drive one every day. It only cost $28 to pack up with premium fuel,” he says pridefully.
He has collected many muscle cars including what he describes as a bunch of Dodge Coronet and Super Bee models. There is a one thousand nine hundred sixty four Chevrolet Malibu convertible that was originally tooled with a V8 engine and four-speed transmission, and a uncommon one thousand nine hundred sixty six Pontiac Beaumont SD (Sport Deluxe) with a V8 engine and four-speed transmission – one of only forty five built. He has possessed his restored one thousand nine hundred sixty eight Chevrolet Chevelle with a big-block 396-cubic-inch engine and four-speed transmission for thirty years.
“I don’t sell parts, only project cars,” he says. He also restores cars, which is very labour intensive and time consuming. “I just finished a Dodge Challenger and am now doing a ground-up restoration on a one thousand nine hundred sixty six Plymouth Satellite convertible for a customer.”
His property has been listed for sale all winter and has not created the interest he had hoped – even with the three hundred forty cars thrown in as a bonus. “I haven’t had one suggest but it was winter and you couldn’t even see the cars,” he reports. “They were covered in six feet of snow.”
Listing agent Hudson Purba of Century twenty one Desert Hills Realty in Kamloops remains optimistic about the suggesting
“It’s not just purchasing the cars, land and buildings. It is about a lifetime chance to spend time doing what people like: restoring vintage cars and living in one of the most beautiful parts of B.C. That value is more than the asking price.”
Meantime, Mike Hall proceeds to haul cars back to the property from all over B.C., including a one thousand nine hundred forty one Plymouth coupe that he just couldn’t fight back.
“Every day, I’m ripped about selling the property with the cars. I’m still buying cars. It’s like a sickness that I’m not getting over.”
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