When the teenaged Larry Klairmont was a U.S. Marine sniper, earning a Bronze Star during the battles for Saipan and Iwo Jima during World War II, the odds were pretty slim that he would someday live to the ripe old age of 94. But Klairmont, who passed away in 2021, not only beat the odds, after the war he built a successful business career in Chicago while also amassing one of the great car collections in America.
Opened to the public in 2018, the Klairmont Kollections Automotive Museum bursts the seams of a multi-level 100,000-square-foot building lined with rows of cars that seem to go on forever. The NBA-arena-sized main gallery
