Stranger things have happened. Our company bought a building a few years ago
and when I was there checking it out, I noticed an old Rolls Royce sitting
uncovered in the back yard of the house next door. Talking with the owners I
earned that the father had died a few years before, leaving a collection of
125 cars that he had purchased over the years; they filled several vacant
lots the family owned. Guess how he financed it? He was one of the inventors
of the trigger for the atomic bomb, and kind of went nuts afterward (urban
legend?) and started collecting too many old cars. So the story went; the
cars were there, at least. When they started auctioning them they were
surprised that a dashboard for a 1930's Rolls sold for, like, $2,000.

No Vanagons in the lot (RVC.)