89tc

Is that the car that was driven around the world by a few young women? That's an amazing story.

Little did you know what? I'm confused by that statement.

How about the super rare and low production (17 made) Davis Divan that was up on a pole in Colorado for many years. It was eventually taken down and restored and placed in a museum.

Congratulations. I was on the cover of a magazine too.

Well I think in the end it comes down to money, which I think is ok, depending on the circumstances. Whether the son and daughter get the cars in the will, they'll eventually grow old and have to do something with the cars anyway. As stated many times on this forum, you never really own an old car, you're just the caretaker of it for the next person. I just don't care for vultures, flippers and rat rodders... A few years ago some guy was parting out an inherited rare factory supercharged Sharknose Graham so he could cut it up into a ratrod. After he got his jollies with it I'll bet the car is in the junkyard now, beyond saving...

I'm not a painter, so can anyone explain why paint is so ridiculously priced, and why red is the most expensive color? It sounds like b.s. to me. Paint on hundred year old cars holds up better than the paint on my five year old car that is already deteriorated. Something doesn't add up here...

Legos, old school erector set, and model cars will turn him into a mechanically oriented adult. Video games and his own phone at two years old will turn him into a socially awkward zombie adult who will need to have his car flat- bedded to the dealership when it gets a flat tire.

I got into the hobby through no fault of my own. My family happened to be poor, so I had to supply the tools to my father and push the brake pedal during brake bleeding when I was 6 years old. Instead of trailering a car to the dump when we were bored of the color like people do now, back in the 1970's my father was constantly working on the car to keep it barely alive. So to answer your question, buy yourself a real piece o' sh** car that constantly breaks down, and your son will learn all about cars (and curse words) very fast!

I was restoring a car a few years ago that had strange occurrences every step of the way. I've never seen anything like it in all my years of working with cars; from relentless mice and rats causing thousands of dollars in damage to brand new and restored parts, to the neighbor using the trunk as a workbench, to weather damaging it. I took it as a sign as someone was trying to tell me something about the car. So now it sits back in storage with the mouse traps and damaged parts still in it. When I look back on it, I think I made a good decision to stop working on it because maybe something bad could have happened to me and/or a passenger if I got it roadworthy...

I'm still not understanding the reasoning behind being forced to crush these cars, and paying $15k to do it, because the responses are too vague, but it just might be easier to give them to a Kaiser enthusiast and then report them stolen. Then everyone, you, the attorney, and the new car owner will be happy and the problem will be solved. Then 20 years from now when the vin #'s are out of the system they can be re-titled.

I don't see that Kaiser in the picture above getting crushed. Even in my small country town, anyone involved with the crushing would figure out an angle to "say" it was crushed on paperwork and then make the car disappear. I'll bet if you run the vin in a few years the car is sitting in either the attorneys garage or the garage of Tom's we-crush-it...

68v, I wouldn't be LOL'ing if I were you, I'd be putting all the kitchen knives in a locked cabinet and hiding in the wood shed until they left!!

I agree with junkyard jeff, the thief 1) has to be familiar with these cars, 2) needing those specific parts, 3) and geographically local. He also cased out the car ahead of time, meaning that he either knows the owner, or he knew what storage unit the car was put into. It's really an open and shut case. Whomever owns a Model T in a close geographic area to the crime would be a suspect, which narrows it down to very few people.... Or you could hire a local 13 year old school kid computer nerd to scan the big fingerprint smudge on the top of the radiator/ hood with his fingerprint app and run the print in the online print database for a match...

Hmm, I would consider leaving my cars to a museum if I knew they would be taken care of. In my geographic area lots of museums (not only car museums) went out of business because of lack of funding. I'm also not sure if museums have buildings large enough to house bequeathments, in addition to the display area of the building.

"Rather than arranging for the cars to go somewhere that they can be appreciated AS CARS, the plan is to convert them to cash and distribute that." m-mman, I see where you're coming from, but whether we're talking about cars, diamond jewelry, or fine china, the sad reality is that in the end its all about money. My ex-girlfriend was a hospice care nurse, and 98% of her dying elderly patients got cleaned out of their estates within days/ weeks/ months of their deaths. Some were even cleaned out while they were still living. Everything of any monetary value was sold, and the photo albums and other non-money cherished family items were thrown in the dumpster in the driveway. Regarding your statement as giving the cars to people that would appreciate them as cars, I know alot of car people but have never met one that I liked 😀. I can say with firsthand knowledge that car people are a peculiar bunch!