StorageKing Townsville Group, QLD
Selfstorage units are used by people from all walks of life, from average familiesto the neighborhood eccentric to some of the world’s most famous celebrities. With the TV shows like Storage Warsand American Pickers, it has brought a new curiosity about what people do putinto storage.
In 2009,a 1937 Bugatti 57S was discovered in an English storage garage, where it satuntouched for half a century. One of just a handful of these original supercarsever made, experts believe it to be worth as much as $9 million. A surgeon,Harold Carr, apparently put the car in storage after buying it in the 1950s.When he died in 2007, his nephew uncovered the rare car.
A San Joseman bought a storage unit at auction, later realizing that it containedthousands of dollars in rare coins, and gold and silver ingots. Worth more thanhalf a million dollars, the gold mine was stored in an unlikely treasure chest:a blue Rubbermaid container. The anonymous buyer paid $1,100 for the stash at astorage unit auction.
Back in2000, Nicholas Cage filed a police report after an extremely rare comic bookwas stolen from his home in Los Angeles. More than a decade later, the comicbook (Action Comics #1 – worth more than a million dollars) turned up in anabandoned storage unit. The man who purchased the storage unit at auctioncontacted a comic book dealer, who happened to have been the same person tohave originally sold Cage the book. He recognized it instantly, and NicholasCage has reportedly been reunited with his comic book.
Whilst wehave not uncovered anything as unusual as the above, we are wondering:
What is the most unusual thing youhave found in storage???
