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    Teens touring

    in What is it?

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    Images by themselves are not ‘seen’. There must be some ‘tag’ information on the photo or the photo properties. You can google how search engines find things…basically they are scanning every web page and gathering tons of info. 

    Teens touring

    in What is it?

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    Posting a photo of your car on any forum automatically makes it available for any of the internet search engines. Even if you post to AACA, your local club, facebook, etc. It all becomes available.

    I was in AUS looking for a photo  of my ‘19o DB to show co-workers and lo-and-behold their in my car at a local car show. Someone took a photo and posted it…never knew it was out there.

    Selling cars from an estate

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    57 minutes ago, West Peterson said:

     

    The HUUUGE disadvantage, tho, is that the federal government will get a whopping portion of the capital gains, whereas if the cars are sold by the heirs, no federal capital gains taxes.

    True and something to consider - especially if higher end vehicles but it sounds like the original poster's tax bracket is about as low as it will get. Plus, even with an estate someone has to spend time and effort to manage, negotiate with family, and potentially find a buyer - if you are not familiar with this market or any market you inherit like art, collectables, etc. the chances are it will be sold for pennies and the estate gets less than what the original poster may have cleared after taxes.

    Just speculating, as I am not in this situation as the original poster, but piece of mind knowing you took care of your family without undue burden is probably worth more than any monetary delta that may or may not happen.

    Door locks

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    15 hours ago, Ed Luddy said:

    My 1st house in Woodstock Ont I bought from a friend who lost the door keys. Didn't matter to me but to my family lawyer. Had to get a waiver. I only locked it when I went to bed and left the back windows open then. This was in the mid 1980's. Always left the keys in my 1978 Corvette in the driveway so I wouldn't lose them! My 1970 Chevelle convertible would sit for a week or 2 with the keys in the ashtray in London Ontario at the airport so I wouldn't lose them on holidays!

     Nobody thought it was worth stealing then. Parking was free in the late 70's.

     It does seem strange now to even be typing this. 

    Still not so strange where I live. My parents, especially my father, would leave his keys in the car. In fact, one car he rigged it with a toggle switch so all he had to do was flip the switch and push the starter! He drove that car for about 35 years that way.

    More recently, my mother's Pilot was stolen from the driveway and my parents called me to let me know as I live nearby. I asked how they got it running and of course the reply was 'well, the keys were in the car'. Car was found out of gas, with all change from the change area missing and some taco bell bags. No damage what-so-ever. They just went for a joy-ride. When her car ran out of gas, they just walked down that street trying for other unlocked cars with keys. You guessed it, didn't have to go far. A person on that street reported their car stolen and the keys were left inside.

    Door locks

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    2 hours ago, Roger Walling said:

     I never lock my car.

     

     I would rather let someone search inside of my car for valuables' (which there never are) than have them break a window or worse, slit a convertible top and THEN search inside for valuables'.

     

     If they are going to steal your car, door locks will not stop them.

    :gramps:

    Agree completely. My friends and family don’t understand when we go somewhere in a convertible and I say ‘Don’t lock your door and take what is valuable with you or we can put it in the trunk’. 

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    "New' 1976 Ford Model A

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    1 hour ago, Gunsmoke said:

    Good story, interesting effort by Mr. Laumer. As for the Shay Enterprise, here is an example of the '55 T-Bird, they produced about 200 of them, also on the Pinto platform with 4 cyl engines. Research indicates Camelot Motors bought the Shay assets at bankruptcy sale in 1983, and intended to continue producing Model A's and T-Birds, but I have no info on how many if any were built under their ownership. Looked at some videos on-line, fit and finish is somewhat predictably the weak point for T-Birds. Have never seen one in the flesh.

    Shay Thunderbird.jpg

    Actually got up close to one of these many years at gentleman’s ‘yard’. He went to most junkyard and large estate auctions and would always have cars coming and going. 

    Anyway, it fooled me from afar and from the front but when you got closer you realized it was a little smaller and the interior treatment was not the same. Don’t know what happened to it but it wasn’t around long.

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