victorialynn2

This beautie is the last year of the big Lincolns. 400 engine. Runs and even the ac works. Body is straight and rust free. Headlight doors work as they should, no vacuum leak. Interior is in excellent condition as well. Factory installed CB, heated drivers mirror and thermostat. 61k miles, looks to be original by the paperwork I have. Texas car. Always garaged, non smoker car. Located in Harper, Tx. PM me for more info. Selling for my father whose health issues prevent him from enjoying his car collection. He has Alheimer's and entrusted me to find good homes for his cherished and well loved cars. Will be on EBay soon. $9900 takes it now. Own a piece of American Luxury Car History. More pics: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1j_Rb5rf7tybV81VFI4eVF2UXc

You too Walt!

Even the ac works on this car. Also no vacuum leak for the lights. They stayed shut over two weeks. Will be on eBay soon!

It's installed and correct. I'm feeling pretty lucky! Haha

http://m.ebay.com/itm/1979-1980-1981-1982-1983-1984-1985-FORD-MUSTANG-AIR-CLEANER-INTAKE-FLEX-TUBE-/141763516245?txnId=1349596745004

It looks right! I think I outsmarted the parts Gods. The openings are the same size.

This is the savings account for final expenses.

Hopefully someday I will be going on a road trip in the opposite direction of Texas or Oregon, with the '57, look back and be happy with the way things turned out. This is dads favorite of all his cars.

That's the intention and the hope. If I can help the next person then it wasn't in vain.

Yes, good advice. I started this process immediately but dad failed too quickly to finish. There is a Medicaid look back also, (3 or 5 years they go back to look at asset transfers), but if you transfer assets early enough, and you should become disabled and need expensive care, you can protect some assets with good planning. It is all too detailed to go into here but basically my point is more to ask you to seek professional trust/estate planning early because you may be surprised what you find out. Dad thought he was leaving me something special, and I appreciate that, but I would have been a lot better off if he was broke. It would have allowed me to focus on him and my life and not panic about taking care of his financial and medical issues. Granted my situation is for someone with a small estate and dementia with what they call "tweeners". Too ill to effectively be cared for at home without full time care, but not bad enough for many insurance policies to pay for. There is a big issue with that and also proper trust, estate and medical care planning. Dementia care is an epidemic we are not prepared properly to deal with. The jingle was my attempt to pass a serious message on in a way that would get more attention. It's the marketing in me I guess. Without humor it's not as interesting, or palatable for that matter. Someday I hope to have the time and energy to find a more formal way to bring this problem to more people's attention but for now, this post is all I can muster. I have talked to too many people caught in this situation to keep quiet. The VA tried to harass me into submission to not pursue dads benefits. They tried to scare me and take me to court. I could have had it dismissed but wanted to go and let the judge know what was going on. She had heard it before with the VA and other medical policies not covering dementia care. I wanted it on record even though I knew the courts hands were tied. I submitted the info to my senator so he could use it to try and change policy. I have a letter from him thanking me. There is an entire web of mess dementia can create medically and financially and there is a big increase in cases. I will not preach anymore, just had to get that out there. For the record, I didn't initially intend to spill this much info or get this deep.

I wish dad had had that kind of liquid assets but he had his money in his cars. He collected a lot of things but they are not valuable aside from the cars. All told he had about 500,000 retail and it's cost me 200,000 in lost income already alone. My finances are in turmoil but I'm not going to walk away when my dad needs me. I will go bankrupt protecting him if needed, and that's a real possibility.

In the case of dads cars, they and the real estate prevented him from getting Medicaid, and VA wouldn't pay. I had to come up 5k+ a month for his care or risk the state taking away Guardianship and having no say about his stuff or medical. I HAD to sell the cars to do that. If I wholesaled or sold under market I wouldn't have been able to do it. The alternative would have been he's homeless, a ward of the state and I would have to watch as an outsider while he was treated like, well, let's not think about it. Again, I stress that people underestimate the impact to others or possible things like this coming up. I can't begin to tell you what pressure I was under. If there is enough liquid to pay 5-10k for months for years, fine. Just don't count on the Va or other medical to pay for Alheimer's care because many don't until they need nursing care which is substantial help with 3 or more ADL's and vague enough to give them a lot of ways to deny you. The VA demanded he get care and demanded I pay. I'm done discussing details but it's a REAL problem I want people to know about. I'd have never though what I went through could happen, but people in the VA, state adult protective systems, attorneys, etc said it's very common to see people like my dad denied benefits for no legitimate reason and have no legal recourse. At this point I have so much time invested, and I finally got the VA to pay for his care, (he fractured his hip, requiring surgery and had a big set back in health), so the few remaining cars will be sold soon. I will go back to work and lease the real estate until I inherit it so I can avoid capitol gains. There's not a ton of value, but I can pay stuff off and have something for his final expenses.

It has been very helpful. The most of all Forums I've been in.

Really that's the only reason I bring it up, for awareness. People underestimate what will happen when they are gone.

I'm glad that worked for you. Trust me I looked at all options. No one that knows the situation fully thought that was a good option in my case. It's too late now with just a few project cars left to sell.

Thanks Bob! You can tell to see them in person. My mechanic has a shop restoring old cars and I have had another man with a shop confirm. I'm so positive that I'd pay shipping to have them returned and refund full purchase price if I recived them in the same condition. (No scratches, dents). It just might be the kind of thing I sell local. Or take home for the appraiser who has 50 cars and manages a Chevy dealership to sell for me. I'd negotiate down $50 bucks without the guarantee.

Another consideration about an estate sale, besides having so much non valuable stuff to go through and isolated location, is the tax consequences. I would have had much less to pay for dads care and had no $$ set aside to pay 5k a month or more for any length of time. My income even with his retirement couldn't cover that and upkeep of his properties while I liquidated. I could no longer take care of him alone and had no idea what would happen if I couldn't pay. I feared for him and also loosing guardianship and ability to make his medical and financial decisions. I was trying to keep many balls in the air without dropping them and didn't have as many options as you might think.

Thanks my friend. I like your exit plan! my father had remarried and his wife of 10 years had left him and was trying to, well let's say she and the DIL were committing multiple felonies. I had to take care of that and legal matters when I first got here 2 1/2 years ago. That is why a 1 week visit turned into 5 months before taking my father home with me. I am lucky I got here while he could still make legal choices.

Update: I reduced the car price to $10k. I do have someone coming to look at it in the next week. If it doesn't sell by then I will relist on eBay. I have reduced the fender skirts to $700. They are metal and from the era, not recent repops and very nice shape. I have a person interested in the visor if the car buyer doesn't want it. (The one coming to see it doesn't want it or the skirts).

Bob, they are metal and I have a second opinion that they are old... Not recent repops.

Yes, it would get mine. There are all manner of snakes here too. Don't walk the property without my boots on!

I can not even tell you how many boxes of stuff there are. He never threw away one card or letter, or electric bill from the 70's! I can't just dump them all because there is sensitive financial and personal info mixed in. Almost every box has a few pictures or military trinkets/awards or other sentimental items, so I relate to what you wife went through. I won't even mention the mouse droppings, brown recluse, black widows and salamanders. It's the kind of job that litterly could make you very sick, or even kill you, if your not careful. Its is all very time consuming. Dad left multiple project cars. They are harder to sell, and it's tough sometimes to know what parts goes with what. He's pretry organized but I have found interiors, for example above his office. Who would have thought? Also there are so many flathead, Model T and Corvair parts that I want to burn the building down. Even when I have people tell me what's what, it's hard to remember and the research to price it all is a job all by itself. He has about 50 small cars (Danbury, Franklin Mint) to clean, photograph, try to put back in the box (not successful with even one yet), research price, eBay, ship, etc, for $100 even is way too time consuming and frustrating with so much else going on. They may be donated or thrown away. Then there's the magazines and Hemming's, etc from the 70's on. I need a dumpster just for that. And also the parts, another mess. There's a lot to do that an auction won't help with and the location is remote also. Then consider that he's still alive so I am working away from him when I'm in Texas and at 81, he has health issues. One year he fractured his hip while I was here and I didn't know if he'd survive surgery or if I'd see him alive again. I couldn't just leave because travel is too expensive to leave before I was done what needed to be done. If you don't have Alzheimers covered care, and most people don't, and not a lot of liquid cash, (care can be 5-10k a month!), someone has to sell the cars to pay for care. The VA, Medicare (as long as you have cars, you won't qualify for Medicare) and many plans won't pay until the person needs substantial help with 3 or more activities of daily living. Basically you need to be in a state where you can't bathe, toilet, dress, eat, or stand. I'm not talking you need a little help, but you can't do it almost at all. So if you leave a loved one with the cars to deal with, and your a financial burden, and they are concerned about you and emotional, well, you can see my point. I'm not trying to whine, I just want you'all to see it from another perspective. It's definitely the right thing, not the cost effective thing to do in my case. Some days I feel blessed at the very personal peak I'm getting into my father's life; and some days I don't want to get out of bed and go to the garage. Just dealing with his health and medical stuff would have been enough to handle by itself. My dad never considered any of this and frankly I wouldn't have either. I've had many blessings, and no family sticking their nose in and bothering me. The State of Oregon is another matter due to Guardianship, but that's another story.

I do recall reading that since you and Steve posted that. Excuse my ignorance.

Auburnseeker, that's a good exit plan. It would have worked for me if dad wasn't in the middle of nowhere. He just didn't think he'd be holding on in limbo.

In '96 I actually installed Novell on a Appletalk server. (Libary catalog was on a 3.11 Windows NT machine, but I had to share on the Appletalk server.) I was told it couldn't be done. I had no help. I found the code online. Brand new elementary school with a T-1 line, many hours on the internet. Novell wouldn't help without the cert. Only a few people would even know what that means.