Thursday, October 10, 2013

If you don't have the time or money.....Sell it to someone who does, don't let it rot!!!

I have a friend who buys and sells old cars all the time. He's the guy who finds the stuff in barns that you read about. He also sees some horrible abuses, by stubborn broke people. Went on a run with him recently. We found a 1967 GTX that was rotting in some guys backyard. When my pal offered to buy it-the guy didn't even ask for how much, or give us a price. "It's not for sale, because I'm gonna restore it someday."  Except "Someday" never comes, and the car rots to nothing before it's finally junked by these people's kids, or grand-kids or wives. We saw a '78 "Macho T/A" under a tarp in a guys driveway. Same thing, "He's going to restore it "Someday." Ditto for the rusty '72 Mustang Mach 1 and the badly oxidized '71 Javelin AMX we saw in people's driveways. Out doors. In the elements. My pal told me he asked about a '68 Charger every time he went through this town. For 8 years he got the same answer-"Not for Sale, "I'm going to restore it." The guy died of a heart attack, and then his wife was going to have it restored to fulfill her dead hubby's dream. Finally- after like 15 years-when she lost her house in the big crash of 2007, The Charger was hauled away by the bankruptcy trustee who sold it to a junkyard for like $500. You can't buy the grille for $500!!!  And Ironically-the guy and his wife had turned down cash offers of $5,000 or more several times because they were going to restore it "Someday."  If the car has sat for five years, and you haven't done anything with it, and you don't have the time or money to do it, then sell it to someone who does have the resources to do it rather then let it rot to nothing. I cringe every time I see a '57 Chevy or a '68 Mustang or Camaro that hasn't moved in years and the owners refuse to sell it, yet don't do anything with it. I don't understand this syndrome, but it's rampant. It's also sick and wrong. Mastermind    

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