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REINCARNATION IN MILWAUKEE; Encyclopedic muscle-car knowledge sprouts a carefully chosen collection.(Revs)
Byline: Phil Berg
The sage muscle-car nut reincarnated into the body of 35-year-old Colin Comer appears to have been closely watching performance cars evolve since at least 1960. Comer is passionate about the rare and special cars-all of them built a decade before he was born-that he has collected by trading up for the past 15 years. "I grew up thinking I missed all of the good cars. The 1980s were a bad time for cars,'' he recalls about his youth.
In reaction, he has amassed 39 vehicles in his garage-a refurbished 1927 monument machine factory-that are pristine running examples of the best of their genre: a narrow-hip 427 Cobra, a special ringer Shelby GT350 Mustang created to woo the press in 1965, a row of R-model (race) Shelby Mustangs lined up facing five tri-power GTOs, a pair of '71 442s, in color and equipment schemes that mean they are examples of extremely low production numbers.
Comer evolved into a muscle-car and pony-car fan after graduating from the 1980s GTIs, Omni GLH Turbos and Honda CRXs, followed by a voyage from British sports cars to Italian beauties. Before he was consumed by muscle-car fascination, he played the speculator trading games with Ferraris when he was barely of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, REINCARNATION IN MILWAUKEE; Encyclopedic muscle-car knowledge sprouts...