A Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden in a Hollywood Apartment for Decades
Um, so this is a funny through the looking glass moment. My uncle is the man who put this car in the apartment and I lived in that building for three years.<p>I can corroborate 100% of this story.<p>My uncle, and that apartment, have a very interesting history. My grandfather purchased the building as an investment but it turned into a sort of crash pad for members of my family. My uncle ended up managing it after years of rebuilding jet engines in the Navy as a mechanic. He could rebuild anything by eyeballing a reference part, which was awesome when the ancient pluming failed, but misery when the ancient window treatments failed (ugly as sin and cheap/poor quality even for the 1960s).<p>One of the units was owned by a writer that used it as his personal library for an elaborate book and magazine collection. He lived there after retiring but prior to that would fly back and forth between LA and NY because it was cheaper and easier than relocating them and the associated increase in storage fees.<p>The apartment building is a block away from Hollywood Blvd and many of the street performers/costume wearers lived in the adjacent buildings. I would wake up and say hello to Captain Jack Sparrow and Spiderman on my way to grabbing a cup of coffee. In the late 70s through early 90s it was extremely sketchy and somewhat dangerous. I was a kid when they started cleaning it up so I don't have first hand knowledge of it but the neighborhood certainly still talks about it. The park that used to be next to the apartment was where drug dealers and prostitutes would market their wares. Eventually they bulldozed it and put in a fenced, well lit, park and daycare center as part of the Hollywood Revitalization and Redevelopment program.<p>My uncle decided to retire so he sold the building, split the proceeds with my aunt and grandmother, and moved out of Hollywood.<p>AMA!<p>Edit: Street View for those who want to walk the Neighborhood <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1031929,-118.335439,3a,75y,163.35h,74.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSfOBs7pomXddomgqD6Urjg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1031929,-118.335439,3a,75y,1...</a>