Alabama businessman quietly kept $1 million car collection in barn for 50 years

Earl Trammell began working on cars in 1960, fixing up wrecked vehicles out of a four-car garage. He then worked his way to open his own shop on 6th Avenue South, in Birmingham’s Southside neighborhood, in the 1980s.

Throughout his professional life, Trammell collected cars, viewing vehicles as investments.

The Warrior resident, who died in May 2022 at age 88, stored the vehicles in places ranging from the basements of investment properties he purchased to a barn.

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