An Eccentric Artist Has Collected Fifty Vintage Cars And Left Them To Rot In A Forest – And Now They’re Worth Over One Million Dollars – Design You Trust

An Eccentric Artist Has Collected Fifty Vintage Cars And Left Them To Rot In A Forest – And Now They’re Worth Over One Million Dollars

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Former racing driver Michael Fröhlich, from Dusseldorf, Germany, has purposely crashed the cars into trees, buried them in mud and parked them on cliff faces in his estate’s garden in the middle of the German Neanderthal. His collections includes a Jaguar XK120 worth $170,000, a Porsche 356 racer and a Buick worth $17,000. Perhaps his most interesting collectable is a Rolls Royce, with a purposefully misspelt “Buckingham Palace” – replacing the B with an F – emblazoned on the side with a replica of the Queen Elizabeth at the wheel. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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Michael’s painted and designed Holden car that has rotted for years in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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Michael stood next to his rotting Jaguar XK120 racecar that he used to win a grand prix in 1984 in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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An old vintage car broken down and crashed into a tree on purpose by Michael in his rotting forest in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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The decaying interior of Michael’s fiat car that has been left to rot on purpose by former racing driver Michael Fröhlich in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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A shot from the front of Michael’s citroen car that has rotted away in his forest for years in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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The front of the rotting Jaguar XK120 made in the year 1950 and worth 150,000 euros in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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Michael sat on the bonnet of his rotting Buick car worth £13,000 in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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Inside one of the bonnets of Michael’s decaying cars in his forest in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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Three of Michael’s decaying cars parked up on a cliff side with leaves and mud covering the bonnets in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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A side view of the body of Michael’s Jaguar XK120 racecar that is worth 150,000 euros in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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One of Michael’s unnamed manufactured cars battered and broken into a tree in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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A rusty steering wheel inside one of the rotting cars left for dead in Michael’s forest in Neandertal Germany, September 11, 2016. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images)

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