[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by Old Truck Man

Lok at the picture of the olds. its is spaced out where you can walk around it and open all the doors. the goats & cow keep the weeds down. I placed a dozen cars that where at least 95% complete in a row mowed around them , washed them. took lots of pictures and listed them on Ebay a few years ago. $200 starting price no reserve. didn't get any Bids. Got some phone calls. folks wanted them to be in running driving cond for scrap price. One a 53 buick I eventually sold for $650 about 6 months ago. I scrapped 9 already I still have the olds and a 65 chev 4 door left out of the dozen. I pulled the engine & trans out of the chevy. sold the powerglide trans for $100.

The problem with the Olds as I see it is that it isn't a highly desirable model to restore or even make a mild custom out of. Even though your asking price is more than fair guys are still looking at the same cost of restoring it as they would be looking at restoring a two door hardtop of the same model that would be worth three times as much when both were finished to the same restored level. Worse problem is there is probably a guy within 200 miles of you who dearly needs the nose off that car along with a lot of other pieces who would hand over 1000 bucks in a heartbeat if he knew it existed.

On the mowing around the rigs I was actually writhing about going to an auction in an old wrecking yard and having to tromp through weeds waist deep to get to the cars being auctioned because the outfit that owned them didn't feel the need to clean up a section of the yard to line them up in an orderly fashion to best present them. Not being willing to put in a week or so's work getting things ready for the auction probably cost them 30K because a lot of the potential bidders didn't want to tromp out in the weeds to check out some fairly decent cars. I ended up with a number of truck parts that I was the opening bidder on including a nice hood and fender for 10.00 each. The stacks of parts went last in the 3 day auction and by the time they got to them those of us who were still there were checking with each other to see who actually wanted what. I've still got a bunch of stuff from that auction in the sheds.