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    How to be a dealer in 1912

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    I've been studying some local history from the 1912 to 15 period. Seems there were a number of garages selling cars of different make. This is a small 

    farm community however at that time period there was considerable traffic passing through. I suspect you could buy a sign and call yourself a dealer but

    that is speculation on my part. Anybody know?  Most adds were for Maxwell,Overland, Buick, Studebaker and some others. Ford was already well established.

    Antique cars, this year and beyond, what will happen ?

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    For those of us, or at least me, who have been in this hobby for 6 decades will tell you that for a long time it was more about the hobby than money. As I recall big money didn't become interested until the 70's with the beginning of auctions.  Every car I own I have had to do different degrees of work on, sometimes as simple as putting it back together. I have been blessed with some talents and married a very

    capable woman. If we had to spend months learning to accomplish a task that is  we did (school of hard knocks). I am still learning and love it.  My greatest investment has been time.

    My point is if making money is your motivator then good luck, if saving a piece from the past, if sitting in your brass car and imagining driving to church 6 miles away in 30 degree weather, if you enter a mind warp when you start the engine in your 193--- whatever them you will be all right. 

    If we want young people to be interested then we need to help them, I've probably given 5 projects away to young people who I've mentored, cars I knew I'd never have the interest  in restoring, mostly mid teens. They were all given with a time limit till I got a ride, and I got some scary ones. Its all about whats important to you.

    Perhaps our hobby is reverting back to the way it started, maybe not such a bad thing.

    These are my opinions and I do not mean to offend or criticize.

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    Wondering how to find a body man

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    Flat top, I learned to do body work before body putty existed in my world, I am still at it .

    Still have my lead paddles but there about worn out, will be time to quit when they are.

    Body shops today are replacement shops simply because the metal is so thin, he need an old school body man.

     

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    The Sale of Car Titles is Prohibited

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    If you ever tried to convince an agent at PennDot that all you had for your 1906 Buick was a bill of sale because the title had long ago dissappeared

    you might look at this subject differently. Not usually a problem for most of the cars I see on owners lists.  Unfortunately another service to the hobby is gone.

     

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