Only those who have the same disease for everything that gives off the smell of gasoline, we can understand the passion that pushed Paul Sagaser to have More than 300 vehicles Scattered by the facilities of his property south of Epping, in North Dakota. What is commonly called in the medical slang Diogenes syndrome, lovers to the motor world we know as being a manual oil.
Paul Sagaser, the oil that we all dream of being
As detailed in the descriptive text of the “Sagaser Collection,” Paul devoted himself fully to the search for oil and gas for several US companies in the sector. But not only did he look for oil for his clients, but his work gave him the perfect opportunity to find automotive jewels.
Throughout more than three decades he combined his professional work with his passion, classic cars. While traveling thousands of kilometers in search of new oil wells or gas pipeline, he also dedicated himself to buying jewels hidden in barns, plots or farms from the areas he was visiting.
As it seems, “Paul liked to look in winter, because those old cars were jewels, waiting for a good rock hunter to pick them up and add them to his collection.” In addition, I felt weakness for the mopar (acronym for motor and pairts). I was looking for cars from Plymouth, Dodge and Chrysler brands, including models of the early 1930s.
All of them were taken to the farm that he shared with his family south of Epping, North Dakota. There they were ordered in the adjoining lots by model and year, being waiting for a future restoration. In fact, it is explained that «Paul never wanted nothing to be taught and rescued cars. That is history! The Sagaser opened a restoration workshop, and the boys helped and learned from their father the love for old cars. »
This “field of dreams”, as he called his collection, was getting bigger and bigger, managing to give life again to some of the mechanical bodies that seemed to have found their place of eternal response. Even the place became the objective of curious and lovers of that mima passion that Sagaser and his family treasured. In addition, they took part of the collection, for years, to various exhibitions, becoming a well -known collector among fans in the area.
Bad luck wanted that in July 2018 Paul died in a tragic accident when he returned from a meeting of the club to which he belonged, to the controls of his Harley-Davidson. Apparently he fell from his motorcycle when he tried to cross the train tracks from a level step, with the bad luck that the front wheel was stuck between the track itself and one of the naughty ones.
Sagaser tried by all means to take out the motorcycle from there, without realizing that a train approached dangerously to the place, being finally run over him and his motorcycle for this. If that is not love for the two wheels, let God go and see it. Paul literally died for trying to save his motorcycle. A story of tragic, what emotional.
Almost 7 years after that fateful day, the Vanderbrink Auccs auction house, at the request of Sagaser’s family, will try to look for a new home to the huge amount of vehicles, spare parts and some motorcycle, among which an H-D1340 FLHS ELECTRA GLIDE of the late 80s that for decades collected its owner until shortly before dining.
It will be on June 7 and to be able to opt for any of the vehicles that make up the lot of the Sagaser collection, you can do it by clicking this link.
