Is it the buying season?

[31 Model A]

Had two people drive by and noticed Larry's Fordor in my garage today and wanted to buy it. Is this common?

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by 31 Model A

Had two people drive by and noticed Larry's Fordor in my garage today and wanted to buy it. Is this common?

I say "Sell it". If Larry left his car in your driveway it's fair game...

[ian Simpson]

Originally Posted by 31 Model A

Had two people drive by and noticed Larry's Fordor in my garage today and wanted to buy it. Is this common?

I live on a fairly busy street and when my garage is open in the summer, I get many offers of purchase. Funny, I never had anyone come back with cash or a bank draft.

Ian

[Steve Wastler]

One of the reasons my garage doors face away from the road.....

[C26Pinelake]

Just people that want a closer look! In reality not serious buyers. Everybody likes looking at olde cars. Wayne

[31 Model A]

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Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

I say "Sell it". If Larry left his car in your driveway it's fair game...

I did give one guy Larry's contact info, he seemed legit and loaded with money. He had Missouri plates on his car, the other guy I didn't get his plate state.

[larrys40]

Sonny, put it under lock and key man!!! I'm not ready to get rid of it yet
Still working on Sarah.. I'll keep you posted.
in the meantime take care of my girl ( or guy Bart)!.
Larry

[ronn]

after people watch Pickers and Antiques road show, they think everyone is giving everything away for free..........

that's my take.

the next time, ask them what they want to pay................
probably get some mumbling and I'll get back to you.

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by ronn

after people watch Pickers and Antiques road show, they think everyone is giving everything away for free..........

that's my take.

the next time, ask them what they want to pay................
probably get some mumbling and I'll get back to you.

It would have been all up to Larry....seems two people in one day for Bart and no one ever stopped for Sarah.

[SSsssteamer]

This is the selling season. The buying season is December & January.

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by larrys40

Sonny, put it under lock and key man!!! I'm not ready to get rid of it yet
Still working on Sarah.. I'll keep you posted.
in the meantime take care of my girl ( or guy Bart)!.
Larry

No worry Larry, whoever breaks into the garage to steal Bart had best bring another carburetor, I took yours off....................

[ronn]

there always is "stealth" mode

when the thieves roll it out of the garage in the middle of the night and onto a trailer,
just up the road................

[Keith True]

Somebody told me years ago that if you want to sell an old car,park it somewhere with just a part of it showing.Tucked in the bushes,behind a house,kind of in a spot where somebody will drive by and a passenger will holler,did you see that old car in the bushes?I park one of my cars in a shed at another home I own about 3 miles from me.The shed is on the side of an old state highway,and if I'm there working on something I will leave half of the door open.3 or 4 people will spot it and stop,most want to buy that old junk car to build a hot rod out of.I've never had any interest in selling it outright,but if somebody stepped up to the plate I would sell it.I had a Worthington tractor I wanted to sell,it had the 32 Ford grill,hood,and partial cowl on it.I advertised it,and got a few calls,but when I tucked it in the bushes a couple of hundred feet down my driveway folks poured in when they spotted that grill shell.

[harleytoprock]

And people will become even more interested if you tell them " this car is not for sale to anyone at any price".

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I have 9 people in line to buy Vermin, if I decided to sell him!
IF B.S. were MONEY, they'd ALL be RICH!!
Bill W.

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by harleytoprock

And people will become even more interested if you tell them " this car is not for sale to anyone at any price".

I always tell people that I'd sell anything if the price is right....except my dog!!!

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

I have 9 people in line to buy Vermin, if I decided to sell him!
IF B.S. were MONEY, they'd ALL be RICH!!
Bill W.

Hey Bill, I'm rich and I don't BS at all!!!!! For sure!!! Scouts honor!!!

[katy]

Somebody told me years ago that if you want to sell an old car,park it somewhere with just a part of it showing.

About 25-30 years ago we had an old VW van, sorta camperized, that the kids used for a play house. It was parked behind an old single car garage on the side of our property in a small village. The garage was about 75' from the street. One evening I got a phone call from a fellow living about 100 miles away wanting to know if I wanted to sell that old VW. He wanted to build some kid of bush buggy out of it. The van didn't owe me anything, in fact I was at least $35 to the good with it, the kids had used it for years, originally as a school bus stop and later as a play house. So I sold it for $150 and never looked back. Never did find out how that fellow found out about it or how he got my phone number.

[Tom Wesenberg]

I had some stationary engines inside a locked barn, and got a call from some guy in Iowa wanting to know if I would sell them? I should have taken his information because later they were stolen.

[CarlG]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

I had some stationary engines inside a locked barn, and got a call from some guy in Iowa wanting to know if I would sell them? I should have taken his information because later they were stolen.

Well, he knew where he could get them since you didn't want to sell them!

[Keith True]

I also get a lot of calls from people looking at ads I have out,but not for the item in the picture.They will ask about stuff in the background.I took a picture of an old Lincoln lube station,the thing was 9 feet long,and had three oil and grease barrels inside of it.There were a couple of Eco air meters in the background,I got a dozen calls about those.It was one of those calls that sold those meters,even though I had not planned on selling them right off.He was a restorer of them,and made a good offer and bought all 10 of them at once.

[ursus]

That visibility can work the other way as well. A fellow that had an accumulation of parts and cars once told me that he came by most all of it from people contacting him first. His daily driver was a Model-A sedan and he found that a number people would stop in public places to report a stash of parts or whole cars that they had acquired through purchase of a property or because they were disposing of a relative's estate. None of this stuff was ever advertised and he was the only person offered. I was amazed at what was simply given to him free, provided he hauled it away. In some cases, he had to haul away other non-Ford junk, but did so gladly in order to get the good stuff.

[pooch]

Put it out on the street with a FREE sign on it.

Everyone will ask what's wrong with it ?... and walk off.

Put a FOR SALE sign on it and it will get stolen the first night.

[jimalabam]

Next time someone offers to buy your "A" and ask how much, point to the left running board and say, "Start stacking $100.00 bills here and I will tell you when to stop. That will most probably end that conversation. jiml...

[mshmodela]

I get offers for Ms. Daisy all the time as I drive... I smile, I think most are just being nice.... She's not going anywhere other than to my Son some day.

[glenn in camino]

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Sell it if the offer is good. It's hard to sell a car when you have to.

[Tinbasher]

Years ago I was working on a 1931 Hudson Boatail roadster in the driveway. I'd be working away and there'd be 1/2 dozen people watching what I was doing and asking questions. One guy even asked my wife for a coffee!! 30's cars just draw people's attention and gets them dreaming.

John Poole

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I have a MINT, BLACK, Dodge Dakota, with only 26,000 miles. A friend who has used my truck before, recently sold a car for $15,000.00 & came to my kitchen table, with the cash in a brown paper bag & offered to buy my truck!!!! BOY, that was hard to turn down!!! He even let me SMELL in the sack---------!!!
Bill W.

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

I have a MINT, BLACK, Dodge Dakota, with only 26,000 miles. A friend who has used my truck before, recently sold a car for $15,000.00 & came to my kitchen table, with the cash in a brown paper bag & offered to buy my truck!!!! BOY, that was hard to turn down!!! He even let me SMELL in the sack---------!!!
Bill W.

Good thing it was a friend, some people leave brown paper sacks on people's porches, light the sack on fire, bang on your door and yell FIRE!!!! Of course I wouldn't do anything like that on you Bill, maybe my half brother Mitch but never you.....PA!!!!!

[katy]

In post # 17 I talked about an old VW van that we had used at one time for a school bus stop. It was parked beside the front of our about 500' long driveway. People would come to the house and ask how much was I asking for the van, I told them it wasn't for sale. Then they would ask why is it parked up by the road. So I painted SCHOOL BUS STOP on both sides of it in LARGE letters, people still came and asked how much. I told one guy $10,000, he nearly freaked out. A couple of years later we moved to a small village and took the van w/us and the kids used it for a play house. The SCHOOL BUS STOP painting was still on it when I sold it.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by katy

In post # 17 I talked about an old VW van that we had used at one time for a school bus stop. It was parked beside the front of our about 500' long driveway. People would come to the house and ask how much was I asking for the van, I told them it wasn't for sale. Then they would ask why is it parked up by the road. So I painted SCHOOL BUS STOP on both sides of it in LARGE letters, people still came and asked how much. I told one guy $10,000, he nearly freaked out. A couple of years later we moved to a small village and took the van w/us and the kids used it for a play house. The SCHOOL BUS STOP painting was still on it when I sold it.

That's CLASSY, Katy When we waited for the BUS, we built an "IGLOO" of Tumbleweeds & it was still COLD When the bus came in sight, we'd set it AFIRE
Bill Burner

[Big hammer]

School bus?? Walked up hill to school walked up hill going home :-) !!

[CarlG]

We had that "uphill walk" about a mile just to get to and from the bus stop.