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Old 03-29-2016, 03:54 PM   #1
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Had two people drive by and noticed Larry's Fordor in my garage today and wanted to buy it. Is this common?
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Old 03-29-2016, 04:44 PM   #2
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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...
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Old 03-29-2016, 04:55 PM   #3
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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.

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Old 03-29-2016, 05:11 PM   #4
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One of the reasons my garage doors face away from the road.....
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Old 03-29-2016, 05:15 PM   #5
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Just people that want a closer look! In reality not serious buyers. Everybody likes looking at olde cars. Wayne
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Old 03-29-2016, 05:30 PM   #6
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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.
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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)!.
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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.
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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.
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This is the selling season. The buying season is December & January.
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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)!.
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No worry Larry, whoever breaks into the garage to steal Bart had best bring another carburetor, I took yours off....................
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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................
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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.
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And people will become even more interested if you tell them " this car is not for sale to anyone at any price".
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I have 9 people in line to buy Vermin, if I decided to sell him!
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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!!!
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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!!
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Hey Bill, I'm rich and I don't BS at all!!!!! For sure!!! Scouts honor!!!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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