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Looks like FLAME WARS are starting!!! Cut
it out!!!
Look guys and gals, this is the good ol' U.S. of A.; if you
want to cheat some lil' ol' lady it's up to you [and her]; if you want to ask
$5,000 for your parts car and let it rust that's up to you too!!!
I've seen lots of cars rust away, including a '41 Ch--
convertible that was parked for lack of tires in 1944.
I've also seen a guy, recently, a real jerk, talk the original
owner of a '66 Plymouth with 75K down from $275 to $265. [True story!]
Then he wrecked it, collected ten times the price in insurance money, and won't
sell me any parts because he's saving them for his next '66. [this was the
2d he's wrecked]
I paid $2,500 for a #4 car. Was it too much?
YES! Is anyone complaining? NO! The old man dying of cancer who
saved the car from being wrecked or crushed for 43 years deserved something for
his trouble. If you don't have a car you don't have a project and you can
put all your sweat equity time into honeydo projects.
Both extremes make me mad. $200 bucks for a complete '48
Dodge is too low, even if they did make a million of 'em. It's more a
matter of attitude. If you set out to steal something, or hold somebody
up, or you think your attitude is better than the next guy's, or your time is
more valuable, either way you give decent car collectors a black mark.
It's downright sociopathic to be thinking of how you can get what you want and
screw everyone else.
End of sermon, my blood pressure is up, back to
work.
--Roger van Hoy, '55DeSoto, '42DeSoto, '66Plymouth, '73
Duster
Paid too much for all of them, paid too much for parts, spent
too much time fixing them--so what?
If the comments about ripping off a little old lady were
in reference to the car that had the potential to sell for 1200 bucks or
more when it was parted out but someone was going to make an offer for $200.
then you are really making me mad.
Let me tell you that dreamers hope to sell cars for the
sum value of parts. Typically they won't part them out, no they sit there
with the junk on their front yard till you no what freezes over and nobody
benefits. The cheapest part of any restoration had better be the purchase
price cause the real cost doesn't start till after that. There is no rip off
in a fair exchange between two parties. Whatever they agree on is fair
exchange. I challenge anybody who thinks the other party is being had to
step up to the plate and ante up. I am sick of people advising folks that
their old crates have big value. As is, as they sit they don't.Let them
restore them, absorb the cost, then they have value. Potential value is just
that, potential and until someone takes the action to promote and sell the
parts individually it is nothing more than unrealized potential. Absolutely
useless.
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