Looking at a warehouse full of classic cars is better than looking at porn.
Recently I was wandering around a 6000sq m repository of old (some very old and very rusty) metal in Linden, New Jersey where, nearby, for exactly 70 years until 2007, GM had 6000 workers on 40ha making Caddys, Pontiacs, Buicks and Jimmys.
American Motors Corporation had its beginnings in the 1937 merger of Nash Motors and Kelvinator. I still get a thrill thinking back to the 1955, Kelvinator Food-A-Rama Side by Side Refrigerator, a sensational frost-free cooler that was the Rolls-Royce of fridges.
Anyway, just before Kelvinator launched the Food-A-Rama, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation bought the Hudson Motor Car Company and renamed the whole show AMC. In the late 60s, AMI (Australian Motor Industries, later to become Toyota) brought the AMC Javelin in kit form into Australia and assembled them. They were twice the price of the hottest Holdens and Falcons and twice the cars.
Showing me the cars is West Coast Shipping's Dmitriy Shibarshin. The family-owned company ships about 14,000 cars and bikes a year around the world. Australia and New Zealand are big markets. If you want to buy a classic from the US and ship it home, expect to pay $1500 in freight, $1500 to get it off the boat and through customs and whatever duty you get hit with.
