[Uncle Bob]

alchemy, you understand the quandary I expressed earlier in the thread, as Dave and the others have enumerated the rarity of at least the rails/center member/serial number I've had cause to pause. I have no immediate plans to rod the frame and bought it primarily as a rolling pile of parts. It's not like I had an exclusive on being able to buy this as it was advertised nationally. I just happened to be the one who valued it more than any of the other interested parties. Which just adds to my dilemma. Is there in fact any restorer out there interested enough in the frame at any price? I'll qualify that statement by saying if I were to sell the frame it would be for what, compared to recent transactions that have been visible, would be a realistic/reasonable not pie in the sky pricing. Since I haven't given a sale of it much thought I don't know exactly what that price should be, but I think I'm a reasonable guy, a car guy and not a speculator by whatever definition that might conjure. Since the serial number is legible a bonded title could be obtained raising it's value.......but only if there's someone out there that's interested in it.

I'm reminded somewhat of a few decades back when restorers were particularly hostile to rodders. Never mind that in many cases (as in not all for the argumentative) rodders were more willing to take lesser examples and invest more effort in resurrecting what were then considered "too far gone" examples. The restorers had had equal opportunity to rescue those examples but passed in favor of better preserved pieces. Nothing wrong with that, in fact it was a more sensible choice at the time. With time, the scale has slid some. But, is this frame really desirable, and worth something to a true restorer? I will tell you this; this is a very public forum, this is now reasonably well documented for what it is, I'm neither hoarding nor fishing, this is a sincere thread started to learn about a previously not well understood (to me anyway) feature of "early" frames. I'd be willing to bet, based on a few decades of life lessons, some think it's just junk, some probably think I'm some form of despicable character, and many don't give a rip. If there is someone out there that thinks this is a significant item, let me know. If that person doesn't exist it will be put to some good use by me or someone else that won't measure up to a fantasy. A lesson not always learned; rarity doesn't automatically mean value, desirability does.