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11-28-2023, 02:44 PM | #21 |
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X2, That was commonly heard remark back in the 1960's and 70's when I would find Model A's in similar condition out in a field or behind a shed in Idaho farm country.
when I was a kid, there was a coupe nearby. The fella lost his son in Vietnam and it was his car............ Understandably, he wouldnt sell his kids car. It was rotting into the ground...... |
11-28-2023, 04:14 PM | #22 | |
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11-28-2023, 05:56 PM | #23 |
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Get your MiG welder and shore up the body Find on halfway decent chassis/running gear on Facebook or Craigslist That a rodder is discarding Same with sheet metal that is less than ideal. And you will have a roadster that gets noticed. Example: Old Friend pulled this ‘31 Tudor out of the woods in Northern Wisconsin many years ago. Had lots of fun with his rolling museum. |
11-29-2023, 11:36 AM | #24 | |
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In the 70s there were two 29 Tudor Sedans sitting in a small town about 20 up river from Davenport, Iowa (perhaps Marshall also knew about them) that I tried several times to buy. So the story went that the owner told me, he had bought them both new and parked 1 while driving the other. When the driver needed to much work he parked it in the backyard and started driving the other "A", when it too was about worn out he parked it next to the first "A" where they both sat for many years. He would not sell either car "as he planned to restore one of them and use the parts from the other to do the job. They had been sitting so long that about 6" of the bottom of the wheels closest to the ground were rusted off. To my knowledge they were still there in 1984 when I left Iowa for Delaware. Frank Last edited by frank55a; 12-01-2023 at 03:01 PM. |
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11-29-2023, 02:14 PM | #25 |
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To quote Charlene from the Andy Griffith show: "Oh no Paw, that make me cry!"
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11-29-2023, 03:08 PM | #26 |
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11-29-2023, 04:42 PM | #27 |
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Very frustrating indeed but they are his cars and it's his prerogative as to what he does with them. I just know that the fate of those cars would be very different if they were mine and I suspect anybody else here.
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11-29-2023, 04:54 PM | #28 |
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"I know he'll never touch them.....Very frustrating to see vehicles just rotting away...."
Whenever I ran into those types, who wouldn't sell their rotting away vehicles, I wondered how these guys will be able to restore a Model A when they didn't have the energy or found the time to even cut their lawns in the last six months or shave their beard growth for the previous two weeks. Following up years later whenever possible, I found that not ONE of those vehicles had ever been restored by these guys. The cars had either rotted away, sunken into the ground so as to make them unrestorable, or the heirs had the carcasses hauled away to the junk heap. But, by Gawd! They were going to restore those cars one day - right after they cut their lawns and shaved! Yes, it was their property. But as temporary caretakers of the cars, it was their responsibility to see that they survived in decent condition for the sake of history and for future generations, who will now never get an opportunity to bring those rotted-away vehicles back to their splendor. Who wins these situations? Nobody, that's who! Marshall |
11-29-2023, 05:45 PM | #29 |
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Who knows how old the photo is. Still looks pretty good, considering.
We all love finding old cars. I bought a 24 T couple that had been sitting in a garage for about 60 years. I just bought another T that had been in the same family since 1955 and not run for quite a few years.
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11-29-2023, 06:35 PM | #30 |
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Not abandon yet, but wouldn't you love to have one of these.
https://youtu.be/hRMAQj0yA44?si=9jphLLdqThvvu4On
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Great stories all, Years ago I kept after a friend of mine to go take a look in a barn close to his home wondering if there was any old cars there. He finally relented and we went to look. I peeked in through a crack in a rear barn door and a headlight was looking back at me. We went in and I did not quite know what it was till I came back home and looked it up. Turned out to be a 1926 Oakland sport coupe complete with landau irons and dual rear spares in what appeared to be wonderful condition. Seemed like a battery would have started it then. Many folks from that family started a war between them over the property and eventually the place caught fire and burned flat ! A beautiful auto lost for what ? Still think of it today.
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11-30-2023, 02:37 PM | #32 |
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Marshall, you hit the nail on the head. The guy who has all 3 of those vehicles lives in the country with his wife who inherited all her Dad's things. He does not cut the grass hardly at all, and has a beard down to his belt buckle. Included with those I mentioned are about 3-4 various makes steam engines, Waterloo Boy tractor, a never used 40ft goose neck trailer, and a D6 dozer, all rotting away in several barns. Sure they are his to leave to rot, but very frustrating for all of us wanting them to survive.
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11-30-2023, 03:01 PM | #33 |
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"...and eventually the place caught fire and burned flat! A beautiful auto lost for what?"
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12-01-2023, 12:11 AM | #34 |
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I hate it when people look in my sheds and think they've found gold. Yeah, maybe but its MY gold. A dry shed with plenty of air movement will keep a car nicely for many decades. Some of us have plans for retirement, although I'll admit I have enough plans for about 70 years of retirement. Recently pulled out an early 60's FoxTrac that is my next project. After that it'll be my 70 VW bug, or maybe the 1948 JD M, etc etc.
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I hear that I'm gonna fix it up speech all too often. By the time they get around to it the car is noting but a pile of scrap. Owning a collector car comes as a duty if ya ask me. That probably sounds odd to a lot of people. A collector car is not just another used car. |
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02-07-2024, 06:42 PM | #36 |
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I met a girl in college in 1966 who said there was an old Ford in a field on her parent’s property, and I could have it free just for the taking. She drove me out to the farm and as we approached the field I could see a roadster that looked pretty rough but sorta complete sitting under a tree. As I got closer it showed as being somewhat picked over, and pretty straight, but the tree had grown up right through the middle. It would have taken a pro arborist a full day to cut that tree out safely, and a way lot of hard labor to move what remained of that roadster from its 30+ years in that field. It’s been over 60 years, but…
…It might still be there.
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02-08-2024, 04:36 PM | #37 |
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I had a German car I dearly loved, bought it new in 2000. A somewhat rare spec which was great fun to drive until it began falling apart. One darn thing after another, and it wasn’t nickel-and-dining me to death, it was frighteningly expensive, but way too complex to fix on my own. It sat for 2 years under a tarp, and for 5 years before that in a garage. A few weeks ago Copart offered me $170 (!) for it. The dang taillights are worth three times that much. I just couldn’t stand the thought of scrapping it. I wanted to put it into someone’s hands who would appreciate it. Finally found just the right guy who could get it fixed up and I GAVE it to him. No charge. I knew I was never going to get to it “some day”.
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02-08-2024, 05:05 PM | #38 |
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Do you think these bodies could have been restored if the owner hadn't decided that someday HE would restore them?
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02-09-2024, 08:03 AM | #39 |
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That will buff right out and look good as new!
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"'Ran when parked."
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