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Little did you know what? I'm confused by that statement.
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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.
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Congratulations. I was on the cover of a magazine too.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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!!
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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...
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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.
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"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!
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I've found that the type of car show directly affects the type of people at the car show. 20's, 30's, 40's shows have mostly seniors sitting in lawn chairs behind their cars answering occasional car questions, ratrod shows have ruffians and rockabillies, mustang, corvette and camaro shows have unkempt middle aged men wearing worn black car show tee-shirts from 1998 who aren't friendly with anybody, tuner shows have younger people, motorcycle shows have the leather-clad biker crowd, and Concourse de Elegance have a mixture of seniors wearing wicker fedoras, young rich snobs, and people that are trying to be young rich snobs.
In the end I'd have to say that I've never had a bad experience at any car shows. My biggest peeve at a show is when people show up with their car and then disappear an hour later, leaving a blank space in the field that could have been used for a real enthusiast to show his car. In addition, the early-leavers shortchange the spectators who pay $5- $20 to see the cars. I've learned never to go to a Good Guys car show on a Sunday because half of the cars clear out on Saturday, even though the spectators are still paying $20 per person each day...
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Who's going to get your estate (car collection) when you die?
My family has absolutely no connection to cars whatsoever. My wife doesn't even know the names of my cars because it's just not an interest of hers. I showed her my Ferrari once and she said, "Oh". Whenever I drag a super rare or exotic car home, my family asks how long it's going to take up driveway space before I haul it to the junkyard.
So, sad to say, in the end I'm fully confident that if I die on Tuesday, my family will have most of my cars junked, and the rest sold for $500 each on Wednesday.
I like cats, so I was thinking of donating the collection to the local cat care society so they can sell the collection and use the proceeds for a good cause.
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I've been using Wesleys Bleche White since the 1970's when it came in a metal can with a squirt top. Since Black Magic bought out Westleys I've noticed the quality of the product went way down and the price went up. So I'd left a review on the Black Magic website and they deleted it and only left the glowing great reviews (which appear to be phony). So I'd contacted Black Magic to ask them why the deceit, and never received a reply.
So in the end, I'm recommending that people who need to clean their white walls use something else in the future, instead of paying alot for a once great product that now doesnt work anywhere near as good as it used to.
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Oh wow, it looks like you're right! Thanks very much for the info.
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These are parts of a car buried on the side of the road. It looks to me like a rear bumper and a grille for a late 1960's foreign sports car because the bumper is very small and flimsy. What does anyone think? I couldn't pull them out of the pile because there is more car attached to them.
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When I was 16 in 1986 I dropped my buddy off from high school in my 1978 firebird. When I pulled into his driveway I saw the front of a car peeping through the bushes beside his garage. It was a 1969 carousel red gto judge with hideaway headlights. I told him to ask his mother how much she wanted for it and she said $1500. At 16 years old, $1500 was too much for me. Two years later I saw it on the back of a trailer with New Jersey plates going down the highway.
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So Hudson and Essex were the same company at that time? We're they alot more expensive than a Chevy or Ford?
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A 1925 Essex?
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I found this sedan in the woods near my house. I'm thinking the dashboard configuration is the give-away as to what kind of car it is. The geographic area of the woods is surrounded by old farms and primitive homesteads from the early 1900's, so I'm thinking it's a Ford or Chevy, as opposed to a luxury car.
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I'm calling b.s. on it but if it's real then the OP can expect relatives knocking on his door that he's never met, looking for their $$. A situation like this is sad because the end result is going to be all about the $$ no matter how broken up the family gets with arguments and lawsuits. That's why I'm glad that my family has no clue about cars, so when I die they'll bequeath my million dollar collection to the junk man, and go about living their lives without interruption.
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Unidentified 1910 Automobile
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Is that the car that was driven around the world by a few young women? That's an amazing story.