Featured Features The Collector Car Market continuing its steady fall...

Sell something?? talk to my wife, she will give my stuff to you...with the market correction...she will have to pay you to take it???

 

My son is planning on continuing the manufacture of rebuilding kit and parts section of The Carburetor Shop when I am no longer able to handle it. But he has no interest in rebuilding carburetors, which is why we are selling cores as quickly as possible.

Jon

 

Do you remember the color? Mid-70's I was working on a new powerhouse near Portage and there was a slightly dented pale yellow Superbird in that area for sale for $2000. My wife absolutely refused to consider it. If I remember correctly, someone had panel painted and done some spider webbing on it.

 

You know I don’t remember the color for sure, weird, I think it was blue, IIRC it was mint. It was located in Dubuque Iowa.
$2000 wow, wives are funny that way, just amazing what they’re worth now.
Dan

 

This is great news Jon. Sad to see so many shops closing, often times because family members aren’t interested.
Dan

 

Face it dudes, cost is the killer of the entire picture. No? Go buy a gallon of top shelf paint and its needed components like thinner, clear (if used), compound, etc.etc. OR-run over to the nearest collision/and/or rod shop and get a price to fix or paint it. I won't mention the special tools prices if you don't have them. No more wrecking yard browsing on Saturdays, parts picking at meets (now mostly wore out junk or signs), or picking up a newspaper (remember those?) and looking for something that was listed in them. Yeah, there will always be folks that do this but they will be independent and have the funds available--common critters ain't gonna cut it! How many under 25's use this board?

 

Good for me as I am looking for Laura's Christmas Present!

Looking at a red 57 T-bird tomorrow that probably would have been $40-50K a few years ago & I hope to get it for $25-27K if it is what it professes to be.

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

I used to work at a restoration shop that specialized in early T-birds, it's kinda shocking what a bargain they are now.

 

It depends, if you're still with your original wife, and she's still putting up with you, she's priceless. Oh, we were talking about cars, weren't we?

 

And sadly they won't get anywhere near $55k.for it.

 

Junkyards to pick thru?
We’re holding a tiny junkyard in our hand.

 

I think we’re just in adjustment stage, the hobby has been in a constant state of change forever. Like I stated above in the 70s you couldn’t hardly give away a muscle car, now you can’t hardly afford one. We or at least I don’t know what the future holds, maybe the Edsel will become the hottest thing out there Who knows?
Dan

 

My rule #1 has always been NEVER buy a car you don't like the looks of.............you could be stuck looking at it forever.

 

With people aging out and prices dropping, I was able to pick up two cars I have always wanted, in the last 3 years. Problem is I am aging out also.

 

When my wife suggested I sell some cars, I said OK. Put ads in AUTOWEEK with photos in mid-December and then pointed out that there was no interest in spite of the fact that I was advertising them in a national publication!