[FWDLK] MOSTLY MOPAR GUYS DO THIS?????

[Ron Allyn Swartley <Archangel1390@xxxxxxx>]

I have been into racing and restoring Mopar since 1957 and I have attended hundreds and hundreds of car shows and exhibits over they years. If a GM or Ford guy get a second car (not talking about everyday drivers) a collector car, he will restore it and sell it or sell it to someone who will restore it, most of the time. However if a Mopar guy collects 10---20----30 or more he keeps them all. He may sell one or two. Then this same guy will complain that all the car shows do not have enough Mopar cars in attendance??????? Is this a sickness? An awful lot of these Mopar collector have so many cars they can't restore them all and they know it, but they won't sell them but they will let them rot. (How many 56 and 57 Chevys do you see rotting??!!!!)
    Recently I asked the president of one of the Largest Mopar clubs why this is? Knowing I am and have always been a Mopar owner he lowered voice and said "I know exactly what you mean. We gave it a lot of thought and talked about this with other collectors and we think it is because Ford and GM parts are easier to buy new and used. Mopar parts are not as easy to come by, so they hang on to them until they are almost unusable. We try not to talk about it, because it get people angry but our club has an awful lot of those type people. They don't like to hear that they are keeping other guys from becoming Mopar collectors. They all have good reasons for not doing anything other then talking about their collection but the bottom line is no one else gets them," (the guys who hate Mopars must love this type of collector that buys Mopars and then lets them rot).
        I always hated the guy with the Mopar in the field and he would not sell it and he would not restore it, he would just let it rot.
     Recently I sold 8 of my Mopars to guys wanting their first Mopar because my wife reminded me that I had become one of the guys that sits on the collector cars and doesn't sell them. I have 8 cars less and I made 8 new friends ---AND I FEEL GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                                        Ron Allyn Swartley
PS. If I have offended anyone -------that probably means that person has too many Mopar and is not doing much with them.----Sorry-----THESE ARE THE FACTS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!