Nobody knew this Chicago garage was hiding America’s coolest '70s cars

Nobody knew that this Chicago garage was hiding some of America’s coolest ’70s cars.

Usually when cars are found in a garage after years of inactivity, they’re not looking so great.

But the ’70s cars in this garage had held up remarkably well, despite their dust coating.

YouTuber decayingmidwest took a closer look at the classic autos.

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It may seem like an obvious statement, but garages really can hold a lot of cars.

Yeah yeah, and the Pope is Catholic.

But sometimes we take it for granted how much history can be contained within those four walls.

One garage hosted the first Chevrolet C4 Corvette, while another was home to a pair of supercars owned by a grandpa.

And that’s not forgetting garages with humungous collections, like that of Tariq Almusa, a Qatari car collector.

The garage that YouTuber decayingmidwest paid a visit to had a lot of history behind it.

Inside were tons of pristine Buicks and Cadillacs.

One thing tied all these ’70s cars together – they used to belong to the Mafia.

“These cars were part of an antique collection, and they have signs saying do not touch,” the YouTuber told his viewers.

One such sign read ‘An antique auto is like another man’s wife – look and admire, but do not touch’.

This collection of ’70s cars included a Lincoln V6, an ODS Oldsmobile, a Mercury Sable, and tons more.

They were all coated in thick layers of dust, but were otherwise looking pretty good.

The interiors were often in pretty solid condition, indicating that these cars would probably be fine after a good clean and a check-up at the shop.

“Most of these cars are from the ’70s and ’80s,” Decayingmidwest explained.

“The Buicks, Cadillacs, Lincolns, Oldsmobiles, everything, I mean it’s so freaking cool.”

In total, he estimated there were around 40 cars in the Chicago garage.

To paraphrase a famous saying, if only those cars could talk – the stories they could tell.

Who knows which famous gangsters may have sat inside these cars?

These cars were after the time of Al Capone, though, so it may have been some gangsters who aren’t so deeply embedded in the collective memory.

To see this Chicago garage for yourself, you can visit decayingmidwest’s YouTube channel.

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