Chasing Car Culture Lands in the Collection of Rich Fairservis

On the latest episode of Capturing Car Culture, Larry Chen travels to Arizona to visit the collection of developer Rich Fairservis. If American muscle and performance—both vintage and modern—speaks to you, then Fairservis likely has something to pique your interest. 

Keen on Vipers? Fairservis owns at least one from every generation, including a 300-mile first-year car, a pair of GTSs from the final year in 2017 (one to drive, one to preserve), and a matching matte-gold coupe and roadster pair of 2008 Hurst 50^th anniversary cars, plus a promotional matte gold Viper go kart to complete the set. 

There’s great representation from the rest of the Mopar catalog, too, including a Road Runner like no other. There’s a pair of “wing cars” and Challengers old and new, including a Red Eye and a multi-color six-pack of Demon 170s—that’s 6150 horsepower if you’re scoring at home. “I thought, well, I’ll collect all the colors,” Fairservis says, “but I come to find out there’s 12 colors, and I didn’t need six more of them.”

There are restomods and exotics and Mustangs galore, plus a few Cobras, and all the Corvettes you could ask for—like a supercharged Cunningham Edition C8, for instance. Who even knew that was a thing?

Fairservis is adamant that every one of the cars in his collection will fire right up; he starts and runs all the ones on the ground floor about once a month and the ones on lifts about every six months, though as is the case with most large collections—especially those populated by cars still wearing window stickers—most don’t get driven with any regularity, if at all. 

Whether that’s your thing or not, it’s nice to get a peek inside collections like this one, to glimpse the cars and get an understanding of what makes collectors like Fairservis tick.