He Bought 200 Classic Cars From Facebook Marketplace — Now He’s Trying to Save Them AllA vague Facebook listing for "old BMW, Mercedes, and Audi parts" probably moves past most people without a second glance. For TC, a vehicle broker and collector who runs the YouTube channel TC.Drives, it was the beginning of a six-month logistical nightmare that ended with roughly 200 classic cars sitting on a rented lot, slowly being reclaimed by weeds."I bought 200 crusty old project cars," TC opens in his recent YouTube video – a tour of the property he's been sitting on since June 2024 without telling anyone about it.TC originally turned a Subaru WRX wagon habit into a full-time career as a Marketplace scout – sourcing, inspecting, and negotiating cars and collectibles on behalf of clients. "Facebook Marketplace became my full-time job," he says. "People would come to me and I would help them find, inspect, negotiate the price down, and then actually like buy and pick up their Facebook Marketplace hauls." So when a sketchy parts listing caught his eye, he knew exactly how to play it.AdvertisementAdvertisementTC's first two messages went unanswered. It wasn't until he sent a third – this time offering to buy everything on the property without even seeing it – that the seller finally replied. When TC showed up the next day, it took about ten minutes to realize he'd found something genuinely unusual."About 10 minutes in, I realize this is the deal of a lifetime. There are so many cool, rare cars that I had never even seen," he recalled. The problem was he had no money to close the deal, nowhere to store 200 cars, and no way to move them. He called a friend named Aaron, who offered a straightforward split: "If you can figure out how to move it and where to put it, I can figure out how to pay for it." The deal was finalized within five days, and over the next six months, a twelve-person crew hauled everything to its current rented home.What's Actually Out ThereThe collection leans heavily toward German iron – one corner alone holds around 40 BMW E30s, while approximately 25 BMW 2002s and 1600s are spread across the rest of the property. The showpiece, at least by rarity, is a right-hand drive BMW 2002 – almost certainly a grey-market import from decades back."Right, there's rare, and then there's like this kind of car," TC says of it. There's also a Canadian-market BMW 540i M-Sport, a car that came to exist because BMW initially withheld the E39 M5 from the Canadian market and built a V8 manual alternative instead. TC also has around seven BMW 6 Series on the lot, including a manual 633 CSi that he calls a childhood dream car.AdvertisementAdvertisementBeyond the BMW heavy rotation: a Nissan 200SX Turbo with its original digital dash and what TC describes as "this cosmic interior with all these cool little bits literally everywhere." A Mercedes-Benz 500 SEC that TC admits he had to have the moment he saw it. A manual diesel Volvo 240 with clean blue cloth interior that he's gotten to turn over but can't reach because it's buried at the back of the lot. "You're never gonna find this," he says of it – and he's probably right. Rounding out the inventory are a Saab 900 Turbo, two BMW E34 wagons, a Peugeot 505 Turbodiesel, a first-generation Honda Civic, and a Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine that was reportedly in great condition until a hurricane sent a tree straight through it.Not everything made the cut. A roofless, doorless, rear-wheel-free GMC Safari earns its own admission from TC: "That one should have probably gone to scrap, but hey, hindsight's 2020."In December 2024, TC and his wife lost their first child. "This brought my whole life to a halt, and it brought the lot to a halt," he says. The cars sat for nearly a year before he posted to Instagram in November 2025, which eventually led to the YouTube video that's now drawing attention to the collection.The bulk of the cars are available for purchase. A few have been earmarked for restoration. "Pretty much everything out there is going to end up in someone's garage," TC says.
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