But in another, it’s been a long time coming. So in one sense, everything here is the overnight result of some mysterious purpose. Again, I don’t know if it’s divine intervention, but I do feel God has a hand in it.” Before all this, he says: “If you’d have told me I’d have bought a right-hand-drive car, I’d have told you you were out of your mind-especially that I was going to buy 700 of them. Since then, Duncan has bought an astounding 700-plus vehicles and counting. My first Japanese purchase landed in Newport News (Virginia) in April of 2016.” “Every night, we start looking for what’s for sale in Japan, and we started buying cars. Within weeks, he’d bought 10 firetrucks from that man’s contact in Washington. It’s on your way would you like to stop by?’ So we go by there and he’s got a little red Japanese firetruck and a Nissan S-Cargo (an adorable, snail-shaped delivery van). “We’re getting ready to leave and he says: ‘By the way, I have another garage. In December 2015, Duncan visited a local man selling older Hondas- Del Sols, S2000s, Preludes. “Trust me-I’m not this good.”Ĭall it what you will, but something did seem to guide him down this path.Ī super-clean (American-market) Acura NSX behind two ornate Japanese hearses, one built on a Toyota, the other on a Mercedes-Benz.
We’re sitting in his office collector-car magazines, price guides and free-for-the-taking Christian literature surround us. “I believe in divine intervention,” Duncan proclaims, not a few minutes after we’ve met. He’s an established, second-generation new-car dealer who has assembled one of the largest and most eclectic collections of Japanese domestic market (JDM) vehicles in once place anywhere on the planet. But Duncan isn’t crazy, and he isn’t a hoarder. No, we’re talking everything: minitrucks and firetrucks, space-age four-wheel-drive vans and sport coupes, convertibles and dignified luxury sedans, even a handful of incredible hearses-intricately carved gilded pagodas plopped on the back of somber black Toyotas …Īdd a few cop cars into the mix, and Duncan would be able singlehandedly to meet the personal, commercial, municipal and mortuary vehicular needs of a small Japanese town. How else do you explain the sudden accumulation, in an industrial park on the fringes of Christiansburg, Virginia, of 700 or so vintage Japanese-market vehicles? And not just the ones you’d expect-the coveted Nissan Skylines, Honda Beat convertibles and the like. The whole scene would almost make more sense if Gary Duncan were certifiably nuts.
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