I heard all you California guys whining this week about the PA guys scoring. Just to let you know, it happens here in CT every day. Today I was out repossessing in the Eastern part of CT when I came across Eastern CT's number one tin hunter ripping a cover off of a parked car. I can not reveal details, but this was just part of an estate score. Not registered for 20 years. So quit whining, build your network and pay off the people in the know. It is all about knowledge and ability to pay when oppourtunity knocks. 1934 Pontiac 8 coupe. Just part of a whole load of treasure. Later, Ray in CT
wow that looks like a really nice car, those fenders are cool as hell with those "scallops" molded into them at the bottom
Ray: Next time your around Glastonbury I'll take you down to the Barn near my firehouse. Packed with Model A's . The old timer that owns the place would rather crush em then sell them. So they sit....... Matt
Super score! That is one great looking car. That grill is what Ed Eskenderian used on his roadster, the Schaffer 8 Indy car from the 1930's used one too.
very good find. More often than not, the barn is full of old cars being stored by a hoarder (def: a guy who gets 'em cheap, hides them, says he will get to them one day, and never does....so they sit..and sit...). The frustrating part is that I know of several 34 coupes within 100 miles of where I live - they have sat for years (at different locations) and are absolutely not for sale. So my way of dealing with this frustration is that I will never sell or trade anything to a hoarder.
Yeah, my neighbor had a perfect condition 56 caddy sitting in his barn in the early 80's and absolutely refused to sell. I watched that car literally rot to nothing for the next 20 years until they junked it when they tore the barn down.It's always the cars that are in great shape too. Just a tragedy
Nothing wrong with collecting cars, some people just enjoy having them, now law says you have to drive them.
Why is it that when someone owns several old cars they never do anything with them. Here I know of a guy that has several 60"s Cadillacs just sitting in and around his garage. Will he sell any? No! He will turn around and walk into his house if you even begin to try talking about them.
It happens here in Australia too. I know an old guy who has 2 65 falcon coupes in his yard just sitting, I have been trying to buy them for 22 years, he still says he is going to restore them?? A large tree fell on the best one a while back. Yep still gunna restore it.
Good to see someone else uses his brain to score cars and doesnt rely on "luck" which generally doesnt have anything to do with it. Congrats on who ever scored that one.
I keep saying these Whoarders (car *****s) are what keep this hobby going, cars are kept as best possible for 20-50 years. the old **** dies and new treasures come to life. if everything was available to everyone that wanted one. all these old relic's would have been used up and crushed years ago. knowing that they're still out there is what keeps us excited!
Biggest problem with a lot of younger guys is a lack of respect... as seen from the older car owners point of veiw. A bit of kindness has it's own rewards. One of my present projects was left sitting in a car port ,in plain veiw of the road .For years people would pester the owner to sell his car,offering derisory money,insulting him as to the condition of the car ,saying things like.." it's been sitting there for years ,it's gonna be ****ed if don't do anything with it".." its a waste of a good car,I'll give you $200 for it.".ETC . In the end his hard drinking got to him and a neibour looked after him when everyone else gave up.'result' ? she got the house and the car ( plus piles of NOS early V8 stuff ) as a bequest.I bought the car off her after some of the boof heads who were trying to score the car from the late owner turned up .Some even tried to just take the car.I bought the car from her after I said i could remember the car being driven around Brissy ,and how I had wanted one for 30 years."Yes", I told her,"I knew it was there but I also knew the of the attachment he had had to his car,and to just front up and demand the right to offer money was just plain bad manners". Some people have to realise that a lot of owners of these seemingly unloved cars were once just like them with aspirations and that car was probably the result of a lot hard effort ,almost a family member and to just sell it off to some smart **** off the street would be unthinkable.
No law says you have to drive them, but there should be one for neglecting them! Like they do for children or animals. I just hate to see them rust away to nothing . Glad to see this one saved!!
I'm waiting for "The Rest of The Story" on this Pontiac, don't need to know any names involved, or the location. With the vanity plate it had to belong to someone in the hobby, what happened when he parked it for the last time?
The biggest problem about the owner's that own cool car's that sit in their yard and rot is that if they sold it know one would talk to them anymore.
Very cool score, not one you see everyday that's for sure. It cracks me up watch people here ***** about "hoarders". Everything is eventually for sale. Personally I'm glad that people are out there saving stuff. What if all of it was for sale when welding pickaxes and bolting cow bones on your ride was considered cool? I'd rather see them sitting in some guys barn. I think the guys who get mad about this need to figure out why these people never sell the cars to them. I've bought cars from these types so I must be doing something the complainers don't.
Don't think any of you guys understand the hoarder, even though he hoards for the same reason we hot rod. "Going to restore it someday" really means that man sees his own youth in that car. Getting rid of that car first requires the man to admit some combination of the following- -he'll never afford restoring it -he lacks the skills to restore it -he lacks the physical ability to restore it The person that looks back at us in the mirror is a different person than the rest of the world sees. For hoarders, selling means admitting the outside world's view is accurate. It's not about the car, it's about acknowledging limitations.
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