1929 Standard Phaeton on BaT

[alexiskai]

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C

Likely it "isn't" going to Start, Stop, & Steer reliably. Any one of those 3 areas can cause someone to lose interest in a collector vehicle very quickly. Pile multiple issues into the mix and the car becomes 'unfun' for the new hobbyist and his family, so he will dump it onto the market again and go find another type of hobby.

I had that conversation with a local acquaintance last month. Said he had just sold a Model A. I said I didn’t know he even had one. Said his wife had wanted one, so they bought it a few years ago, but because of mechanical problems that emerged, they rarely drove it. He had the budget to get it fixed, but it wasn’t the most important thing in his life, and they never got into the habit of driving it. And eventually they wanted the garage space back.