JBoyle's pix post with the White buses, which reminded me of Walt Soplata, gets me thinking of other offbeat collections/collectors of vehicles, and thus to Ernie Simmons, a famous "packrat" in southwestern Ontario (Courtland/Tillsonburg area) who died in 1970. His collection was auctioned on Labour Day weekend of that year. Most famously it included a slew of derelict airplanes (36 Yale trainers and seven Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers); but Ernie collected pretty much everything (trucks, cars, motorbikes, tractors), and is said to have owned quite a few Studebakers. Did a search on here and there had been no previous mention of Ernie...I've tracked a bunch of his airplanes over the years, but have never run across any of the other vehicles. Anyone on here aware of any ex-Simmons Studebakers (or other vehicles) still extant? Anyone actually have a Stude or other vehicle from that collection??
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