A collection of vehicles that would make any car enthusiast drool is coming up for auction after the owner was arrested for drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession.
The collection features 27 rare and desirable vehicles ranging from completely stock to highly modified. While there are one or two outliers, the collection is mostly comprised of MkIV A80 Toyota Supras and E46 BMW M3s.
In fact, 13 out of the 27 vehicles are Toyota Supras, with mileages ranging from 8,169 miles to 123,732 miles, 10 of the examples being under 50,000 miles. Just one of them is naturally aspirated while the other 12 are turbocharged, and eight of them feature manual transmissions.
The five BMW E46 examples are all of the M3 variety and are all pretty much the same except for their different colors and a single convertible example.
As for the rest of the vehicles, there are two Honda S2000s, two Mitsubishi Lancer Evos, two Nissan 350Zs (one modified to look like an Aston Martin), one F82 BMW M4, one E92 BMW M3 Lime Rock Park Edition, and one Acura Integra Type R with some typical modifications.
The collection was previously owned by 41-year-old Cory Taylor, a Massachusetts-area man that ran a huge marijuana trafficking operation out of a fire hall that he’d turned into a luxury home.
During a routine traffic stop, Taylor was caught with 138 lb of marijuana in his vehicle, supposedly making a delivery to a man named Juan. Back at his drug headquarters, police found 24 illegal weapons, 50 lb of marijuana, stacks of cash worth over $4 million dollars, and a kitty cat. Taylor had made bail in August of 2020 but failed to show up for his arraignment. He remained at large until his body was discovered in a vacant city building a few months later.
Taylor was clearly a car enthusiast, because not only is the collection full of rare, desirable models, they were all impeccably maintained and properly stored. The fire hall that he had converted for his drug operations also had rows and rows of car lifts.
The vehicles are now being auctioned off by Stanley J Paine auctioneers, and each vehicle has a starting price of just $5,000 USD with no reserve. Bidding starts June 4th, and we’re expecting that a lot of people will be raising their digital paddle for this one.