I imagine most of us have stories to tell of sellers who thought what they had was ultra rare & valuable leading to scrapped cars; because they were not living in the real world.Case in point I have two examples.
About 10yrs. ago there were three cars behind a barn that had been slated for demolition,they were two Canadian assembled Studebaker
64 convertibles and a 65 pillared coupe,all were condition 3-4 cars &
V/8's,complete & with numerous options.I offered the owner $500. per car as I knew I could make 1 possibly 2 nice cars from the vehicles.
No way,he wanted $5000. per car & that was final! I thought it was just me, but several other Stude lovers got the same answer.About 4yrs. later a new survey was being put in where the barn was & when the storm sewers were being back-filled all three of the cars were pushed in with the fill!
Finally about the same time period there was a lovely 55 Champion "C"
body sitting next to a derelict rural house.It was coral & black with the wide "Butterknife trim" auto,p/s,p/b radio,etc. & was a strong #3 car.I asked the elderly original owner if was interested in selling,he replied if he couldn't get $10,000. for it he was going to give it to his son to restore.Long story short;It sat there 5 years,slowly sinking into the ground & getting vandalized & in the end was scrapped.Sorry to be so long winded but incidents like this kind of bring a tear to my eyes.Anybody else have similar stories to tell?
About 10yrs. ago there were three cars behind a barn that had been slated for demolition,they were two Canadian assembled Studebaker
64 convertibles and a 65 pillared coupe,all were condition 3-4 cars &
V/8's,complete & with numerous options.I offered the owner $500. per car as I knew I could make 1 possibly 2 nice cars from the vehicles.
No way,he wanted $5000. per car & that was final! I thought it was just me, but several other Stude lovers got the same answer.About 4yrs. later a new survey was being put in where the barn was & when the storm sewers were being back-filled all three of the cars were pushed in with the fill!
Finally about the same time period there was a lovely 55 Champion "C"
body sitting next to a derelict rural house.It was coral & black with the wide "Butterknife trim" auto,p/s,p/b radio,etc. & was a strong #3 car.I asked the elderly original owner if was interested in selling,he replied if he couldn't get $10,000. for it he was going to give it to his son to restore.Long story short;It sat there 5 years,slowly sinking into the ground & getting vandalized & in the end was scrapped.Sorry to be so long winded but incidents like this kind of bring a tear to my eyes.Anybody else have similar stories to tell?
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