Ever have a car that you cant give away

I got a '36 Olds more door...Straight 8....with some options...And I payed about $150(the price of the diesel I used to get it) I love the hell out of it...But $4900 for a '37?? '37s are ugly...I mean my '36 Isn't to pretty...but '37s are UGLY!! But then again if I had to pay $800 for my '36 I would have never gone to get it. But now every day the ol' girl is growing on me. I don't think unless odd ball Olds **** starts to sell on Barret Jackson you are ever going to get $4900 out of it.

Plus 9 out 10 times people say they are going to s**** a car if they don't sell it...they are full of ****...10 years from now one of us HAMBers will be driving around PA and they'll spot your car still sitting where it is...or maybe you moved it 10ft...but it will still be there.

 

Sometimes you spend too much money on something and have to take a loss. Hopefully you have made enough over the years on other projects to offset this. I think this was one of the "Things I learned the hard way" answers. No one likes to lose money on one of our toys, but if you play with them long enough, it's going to happen.

 

For $0.00 - the only "give it away" price - I'll drive to PA and pick it up.

 

this thread makes me mad.........my opinion, is 6000, 5000 or however many thousand isnt considered as "giving it away" and to threaten to crush it......just wrong

 

"like many I would love to own it, but dont have time, money or space for it."

I like the Olds and am watchjing the post for it. I can't afford to take it on as a project.

I have two cars that I'm trying to sell right now.
One I have way more into it than I can ever get out of, so I listed it at a trememdous loss only to get deadbeat buyers on ebay and minimal interest on here.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=254295

The other with simmilar results.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=243837

I'm sure that I am biased with respects to these two cars, but I have seen must worse sell for more, just not by me.
Go firgure.
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had a good 51 chevy sedan frame I couldn't give away... ended up cutting it up for the s**** guy.

 

Sounds Less like a price and more like a ransom

 

One time in a moment of stupidity I bought an 87 Volkswagen Cabriolet. I like water cooled VWs but that one was a pig. The only nice thing I can say about it is that it got good gas mileage and even though it was a ****ty convertible, it was still a convertible.

It took me four years to finally sell it and when I did the guy picking it up had that look of buyers remorse in his eye. Never again!

 

ive got a few O/T cars on the chopping block right now..Im looking for project funding money..Im asking very reasonable prices for all of them..the market is just so dam flat up here in michigan that not much is moving unless you give it away.
So far nothing has sold, one week down and alot of calls (tire kickers)..guess I'll just wait and see

 

Ebay the ****er....Use good pictures and big ones to..best to use a photobucket account, things sell better when theres big clear shots.

 

There's a lot of room to ****er on the price between $4900 and the crusher.
Sell it without the trim maybe?
I'm with Brad and the others man.
Drop the price and get on with it.

 

I've got to weigh in on this one.. since I have a 37 Olds 2dr. sedan. You are talking about a car that 99% of the population is not interested in. I know from experience. No aftermarket parts, everything you need to do to the car is custom, plus it's a 4 door. The cards are stacked against you. I like my car because it's unique, and it's gonna be tougher than hell to hide the ugly grill, but I'm going to give it a shot. In all my years of going to car shows, I have never seen a 37 Olds 4 door that looked cool. Period. Many have tried, but all have failed.

If you don't want to sell it for $1500 - $2000 (which in my opinion would be good), then you are going to be stuck with it. You would be better off parting it out on ebay. It will take a lot more time, but probably bring more money in the end.

Sorry for the reality check... I had to do it.

 

Some of this turned ugly....but the crushing comment brought it on. This is probably the wrong forum to offload the Olds. Try looking up some Olds sites on the 'net. Economy is not the best, and toys are shaking loose for cheaper prices now. I like my '37 Chevy firetruck, but not many do. It is a hard sell. My '41 Caddy is cool, but it ain't no Ford. Way better car, but not mainstream. Folks that like oddrods are the minority. I like it that way, but realize it can be less than fun to move 'em on down the line. But they always do move, it just takes longer. I got bit about '65 with a '36 Huppmobile 4 door that received a 322 Nailhead and Pontiac 3 Speed. But someone traded for it...Don't give up, but you may need to lower the price.

 

Had a buddy give me a Hudson Super Jet because he was going into the National Guard for 6 months. I gave it to another guy that thought he wanted it but he left it on the side of the road after the motor quit. Jim was gone to the guard and when the state cops sent a letter to his folks saying it had been towed in, they didn't know what else to do but pay the storeage and have it towed back to their house for when he came back.

 

A car I couldn't give away? several

That's how I ended up with my Studebakers.

Not long ago people wouldn't be caught dead with one or even admitting they ever owned one.
Today they are cool. I was there before they were cool.

 

I could fill my yard with these for no cost...



Those were the good old days.

 

Yeah, 16 or so years ago had a mutillated 70 challenger body that looked like an ex chicken coop. Sat on the driveway for a few years. Best offer I got was a grower wanted to do a trade with a pound of green. Police helicopters put him outa business, so eneded up keeping the car. Fixed it up, now every tyre kicker wants it.

 

oops

 

There is a market for an '87 VW cabriolet, but you may not want the buyer to give you his number to meet him later. (think Senator Larry Craig). Different things turn different people on, and all that.


A '59 Olds ragtop needs to be advertised where guys from Europe and Australia can find it, and it should sell then. I mean I sold enough convertibles to Sweden that were nearly broken in half pieces of ****.


I didn't even look at the actual ads for the OP's car. For $4900 it should run, drive and be presentable - if it's not, you're asking too much, and that's why it's not selling. It has too many doors. Now I'd be perfectly happy with a '37 Olds, regardless of who thinks it's ugly, or how many doors it has - but the last one I looked at was $1500, ran, moved, needed paint, brakes and an interior. And he had trouble getting that for it. Like the others said, $4900 is not giving it away. My buddy's trying to pull that same "pre-crusher" deal on some of his - and he really will s**** them - but no one in their right mind is going to pay you much more than s**** if they know you're willing to settle for s**** money.

 

You don't make a lot of friends using the word Crusher

 

This is a thread not ever responded to by the starter. When you are not in the majority on a thread you seek sympathy for, things change. Now hopefully someone shells out $500 before the crusher does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QFnr...eature=related

 

Odds are they won't. I mean we can all throw rocks at the OP all day, but I've posted stuff for sale and had it not even come close to fair market. I ran a pretty decent '31 AA truck on eBay last week, had guys emailing me telling me the dually wheels are worth $800, it got bid to $600. $2000 would have taken it away, and that would have made it the single cheapest one on all of eBay. I've seen guys after $1500 for just a cab that needed all the same patch panels this one does. Posted it here and Craigslist and not one response. I'm even willing to swap parts around and sell them a bed to build it on a car type frame. I have all that stuff - a '40 rear on an A spring, a nice car frame, the box, a nice front axle, even an extra juice brake backing plate/drum/hub for one side to convert the front over.

Now I'm not about to s**** it, in fact I bought an AA doodlebug out of the s****yard last month, but I'm sure not going to sell it for what it would bring as processed s**** either (I had to pay close to $300 for the 1700 lbs the doodlebug weighed as it was). The wood over the windshield is even still good - for west coast guys it might be weak, but around here usually an A that's sat out, there's a cowl and the rest is in loose pieces.


I'd sure like to go buy some more cars headed for the crusher, but I can't do **** if I don't sell some of what I have now. And what's the point if no one's even offering s**** money, or just barely s**** money? I suppose I'll be good in a few years with s**** up so high, even pieces of **** will start to look like great projects, but in the meantime it pains me to watch some of this stuff get smashed.

 

dude I can understand that if its not a ford or a chevy ,or a ford with a chevy engine nobody wants it I have had my henry j on ebay 5 times and i have had it on craigs list 5 times and the henry j web site of a while too It just wont sell

 

While a 37 Oldsmobile MOREDOOR ... is not exactly a thing of beauty they are far from the worse looking 4 door I have ever seen.

Sadly, you paid too much. About twice as much as it may be worth .

I had a co-worker who had a 42 Chrysler 4 door sedan. His grandfather bought it new. His Dad got in the late 40's as a first car ( hand me down car ). He handed it down to my co-worker as his first car when he turned 16 ( late 1969 ) . He gave it to his son a five or six years ago. His son did not want it. It is just a old, worn out non running 42 Chrysler. Complete car with NO RUST, clean clear ***le ... but a 1942 Chrysler MOREDOOR. About 3 years my co-worker told me ( knowing I like old cars ) that I could have it for free. Just come and haul it away and he would sign over the ***le. Only condition was I could not crush it

I would not even go get it ...
As far as I know, it is still laying in the shed behind his house. I do not work with the guy any more. This is a picture of a 42 Chrysler but not his. This one has been " fixed up "



He offered it to a few other folks also.
He could not even give it away.

 

That Chrysler's makin the Olds look pretty good!

 

would you take $2500?...

 

I vehemently disagree! Each and every bit of old tin is a piece of our automotive heritage, and that makes it very valuable. Just because it's not a Ford or Chevy doesn't make it worthless, in fact I think it increases value (I'm sure not many share this sentiment) because they're unusual. We spend countless hours and dollars customizing Chevys and Fords...Might it save a bit of headache to buy something different? These look awesome finished!!!

 

S**** is only 13.64 a hundred today. Think I would take best offer and run before you lose it.

 

Looks like it's time for a ROAD TRIP to South Carolina!

I had a 1993 Chevy WT1500 4X4 a couple years back. I bought it out of college, kept it about 10 years. It was in really awesome shape, but had a 4.3/5 speed. I didn't mind, I love standard shift. When I tried to sell it, I got no bites. It was up for about a year, I went down to $1100. No one wanted it.
I ended up "donating" it to Mother Waddles or one of those charities. When they came to pick it up, the flatbed driver went by the house a couple times, then finally stopped. He came to the door and asked my wife if she knew where the truck was, and she pointed to it in the driveway. He couldn't believe we were donating it! He was looking for a POS! Long story short, the ***le went in his pocket, and I bet it never made it to the yard.

So, yeah, I have had a car I couldn't give away. But one I did give away is now in Canada...

Jay

 

Yes,DO NOT crush the poor thing,take a loss if you must,but atleast make sure gets p***ed on to good hands.

Even if you part the thing out,do not tell this crowd,they`ll hang you alive all over again. I parted out a `62 F100 unibody last year that was pretty much held together with house paint,and I got sooo much **** from people on here. But when I advertised it as a rusty roller for less then s**** value for 2-weeks before that,none of them jumped on the chance to save it.