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I knocked on the door but no one answered, so I left a note. Body was in great condition, minus some rust around some edges. I glanced inside and it looks like the original interior is in there, but by the height of the grass around it, it looks like this car has just been sitting there for years.
I wanna offer to buy it. Anybody have any idea what a fair price would be to offer? I assume it doesnt run
There was a guy, who's house I would drive by going home from school, who had an early GTO sitting in his front yard I don't think it ever moved. From what I heard people were begging him to sell it, but he said no, and it continued to sit there and rot.
There was a guy, who's house I would drive by going home from school, who had an early GTO sitting in his front yard I don't think it ever moved. From what I heard people were begging him to sell it, but he said no, and it continued to sit there and rot.
Those kinds of people are irrational. I never did understand that... it's auto-blasphemy.
My uncle (a very nice, otherwise smart man) has the car he and my mother learned to drive in in a barn. It's a 1938 Chevrolet Sedan with a straight six, and it's not only rotting away in the barn, but it's jacked up off-kilt to allow room for more ****. Mice have eaten most of the interior. I think the body panels are okay, and probably most of the engine too, but it will never leave. He's 63, not getting any younger, and has the disposable income to get it restored (though it would be expensive), but he won't budge. He got an estimate, and it was apparently too much. My dad and I offered to help him turn it into a rat-rod, or maybe simply get the mechanicals in order and drive it, but "NO! I WANT IT ORIGINAL!" So... there is sits... very much in original condition... rotting away.
A friend of my dad has a Datsun 240Z in his yard where it's been with the windows rolled down for 15 years. It came with him back from Okinawa in the service. It's toast.
I knocked on the door but no one answered, so I left a note. Body was in great condition, minus some rust around some edges. I glanced inside and it looks like the original interior is in there, but by the height of the grass around it, it looks like this car has just been sitting there for years.
I wanna offer to buy it. Anybody have any idea what a fair price would be to offer? I assume it doesnt run
nice barn find. I've no clue what they go for. I'd start with asking if it's for sale and if it is, start off with a low offer to gauge their reaction, then negotiate up from there. If it isn't, Then tell them "well there must be some amount you'd be willing to let it go for. What do you think it is?"
Also, the property that the car is sitting on, has a REALLY OLD house/double-wide on it. Paint's all peeled off, wood is rotting, grass is like 3 feet high, but I think someone lives there.
Those kinds of people are irrational. I never did understand that... it's auto-blasphemy.
My uncle (a very nice, otherwise smart man) has the car he and my mother learned to drive in in a barn. It's a 1938 Chevrolet Sedan with a straight six, and it's not only rotting away in the barn, but it's jacked up off-kilt to allow room for more ****. Mice have eaten most of the interior. I think the body panels are okay, and probably most of the engine too, but it will never leave. He's 63, not getting any younger, and has the disposable income to get it restored (though it would be expensive), but he won't budge. He got an estimate, and it was apparently too much. My dad and I offered to help him turn it into a rat-rod, or maybe simply get the mechanicals in order and drive it, but "NO! I WANT IT ORIGINAL!" So... there is sits... very much in original condition... rotting away.
A friend of my dad has a Datsun 240Z in his yard where it's been with the windows rolled down for 15 years. It came with him back from Okinawa in the service. It's toast.
Some people...
There is a guy at our church who has a 55?? F-100 that's been sitting in his barn for I don't know how many years...he swears up and down that he's going to restore it and yet there it sits, and he wont sell it to any one.
Those kinds of people are irrational. I never did understand that... it's auto-blasphemy.
My uncle (a very nice, otherwise smart man) has the car he and my mother learned to drive in in a barn. It's a 1938 Chevrolet Sedan with a straight six, and it's not only rotting away in the barn, but it's jacked up off-kilt to allow room for more ****. Mice have eaten most of the interior. I think the body panels are okay, and probably most of the engine too, but it will never leave. He's 63, not getting any younger, and has the disposable income to get it restored (though it would be expensive), but he won't budge. He got an estimate, and it was apparently too much. My dad and I offered to help him turn it into a rat-rod, or maybe simply get the mechanicals in order and drive it, but "NO! I WANT IT ORIGINAL!" So... there is sits... very much in original condition... rotting away.
A friend of my dad has a Datsun 240Z in his yard where it's been with the windows rolled down for 15 years. It came with him back from Okinawa in the service. It's toast.
Some people...
This makes me mad^^^
I have 2 year rule when it comes to restoring cars.
After 2 years,if it still looks the same as it did when i first purchased the project it's gotta go!
Kinda sad, Dazed . . . it always hurts when I see something like that.
Good Luck and hopefully it will be your "Cars In Barns" soon.
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