It's been a few years since I drove down Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, so as I passed through Swift Current yesterday on the way to Harbour Mille, Vernon's Antique Toy Shop came as quite a surprise to this life-long car fan.Vernon Smith owns the shop, a 12,000 square foot museum to his eclectic tastes in two-dozen very expensive vintage automobiles.
This car, for example, is considered by many Pontiac fans to be the Holy Grail of all Pontiacs, the extremely rare 1957 Bonneville fuel injection convertible. And here it sits in Swift Current, Newfoundland.
The Globe and Mail did a profile on the shop and it's creator back in November.
He's one of the wealthiest men in Atlantic Canada. Newfoundland's Vernon Smith made his money in the power-line construction industry, but it's his passion for cars that attracts attention these days.Visit Vernon's Antique Toy Shop's website here. More local persective here at The Packet.
He has a jaw-dropping collection of classic cars worth millions of dollars. It took him more than two decades to build, but his 12,000-square-foot showroom dubbed “Vernon's Antique Toy Shop” is a hidden gem.
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