Mystery behind vintage cars piled up in the Cass Corridor

About a dozen vintage cars, mostly Jaguars, were lined up in the Cass Corridor today on their way to a junkyard.

The cars were first spotted this weekend after a local developer found them in an abandoned lot at Cass and Peterboro and wanted to get rid of the fleet.

A tow-truck driver said the cars were found on property owned by Joel Landy, an eccentric developer who owns a lot of vacant and occupied property in the Cass Corridor. Landy wanted to get rid of the cars, the driver said.

Landy owns a 116-year-old Albert Kahn building on Cass Avenue that is leased to J&L Foreign Auto Centre, which fixes Jaguars, BMWs, Mercedes-Benz and other European luxury cars.

Employees at the auto center said some of the cars may have belonged to them, but they said numerous vintage cars were found in a vacant lot.

Landy couldn’t be reached for comment.

How many of these cars can you identify? One appears to be a Jaguar Roadster from the 1940s.

Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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