Name: Million Dollar Car Graveyard
Uploaded: 2017-09-06T00:48:25.000Z
Duration: 3 min 1 s
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MICHEAL FROHLICH: A lot of people like it,

but a lot of people dislike it. Well, that’s life. I don’t care.

COMM: Artist and former racing driver Michael

Frohlich has allowed 50 vintage cars to rot in his forest sculpture park.

MICHEAL FROHLICH: I wanted to demonstrate

that nature is stronger than human brain or human engineering or something like this.

When I started with this it looked a little bit ugly, used cars. But now you can see the

nature. The nature is the boss! I just collected them and they had to be old and ugly but original

COMM: Perhaps most eye-catching is a gold

tinted Rolls Royce with a rather unusual passenger. Michael recently sold a limousine that would

transport Adolf Hitler. But he still has some iconic pieces of German history in the forest.

MICHEAL FROHLICH: I went there to Berlin and

collected parts of the Berlin Wall. This is a car of the East part of Germany. This is

an IFA and on the other side there is a typical west car of the Western part of Germany and

COMM: Despite the nature of the decaying vehicles,

the contents of Michael’s forest are still worth thousands.

MICHEAL FROHLICH: The most expensive cars

of all these cars is my racecar. Now this is the Jaguar XK120. It’s still going strong,

not in the moment because no petrol and no oil in it but well I put it here in running condition.

the black beauty of course, yes. The value of this park, erm well, its one million euros.

COMM: Far from being motivated by money, Michael

was inspired by the words of his father, who had encouraged him to make a name for himself

MICHEAL FROHLICH: In this park there are 50

pieces of my life. 50 pieces of the year of, of myself. My father was very proud of me,

my mother laughed about this, this crazy collection. It’s a matter of taste, a matter of freedom

what you can do what you’re allowed to do. I think 60% or 70% like it. And 30-40% they

are not very amused that I take these cars and leave them in the park. A lot of people

like it but a lot of people dislike it. Well that’s life. I don’t care.