Re: [FWDLK] Local Parish Ordinances Against Antique Cars On Ones Property

[Don <ducksoup@xxxxxxx>]

Well.... the people with too many cars could just stack em all up to
look like Stonehenge and call it art. Everyone likes art!
D.


Rog & Jan van Hoy wrote:

> Obviously this is a touchy subject.  Let me tell you what
> some car collectors in Sacramento, CA did some years ago
> when that capital city started enforcing zoning--  they went
> together and bought ten acres way out in the country for
> their parts cars, built a barn for their long-range
> projects, put up fences and trees.
>
> Fast forward twenty years, when the city grew out to
> surround them.  Not only did they make a profit on the cars
> they no longer wanted [such as a clean '56 Belv 4HT with
> power everything] but they made a huge profit on the land
> for development.  Took some of the profit, bought land
> farther out, started over.
>
> Now some may say they're just ordinary folks who can't
> afford to buy land.  Well, if you go in with enough people
> the price per person goes way down.  Shoot, maybe a whole
> bunch of us ought to go in on a spread in the southwest,
> where you can buy ten acres for $10K.  You don't need water,
> sewer or electricity, just open land without restrictions.
>
> --Roger van Hoy, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '42 DeSoto, '41
> Dodge, '66 Plymouth, '81 Imperial, Washougal, WA