Went to an Estate Sale today

A few weeks ago I posted a link for a local auction.I went there today.There were some neat cars...ruined.The guy use to park them in his backyard and leave them! You could see big holes in the floors where the moisture had accumulated and ate its way out.

62 Corvette that sat outside.69,000 miles. Sold for $35,000

60 Impala

One owner 56 BelAir.Sold for 3-4K

Remember the Bricklin?

Well it had a tarp on it for a while.

You can't rust an Avanti.....but you sure cane screw one up.

This Road Runner was in good shape.It went for $20K

2800 miles.Still on MSO $28,500

This wasn't for sale.I guess they figured it needed to detiorate more

 

I'd say that the 56 was a steller deal compared to a couple of the others.

 

that 'll be my pile someday
i have a steel arch building like that full

 

I set up estate sales for a living now. For all the cool stuff I find, I never find or get to see stuff like this.

 

Shaker hood, plum crazy on the roof under the green paint and rust!?!?Do you know what motor was in the Cuda?

 

dont seem that bad off to me

 

good eye on the paint.

 

It's not quite ripe yet...

 

That 60 Imp is killing me....

That Cuda looks like one of my Dads old cars..

 

What kind of engine did that plum crazy Cuda have in it? I'd be interested !

 

had a 70 roadrunner back in my army days same color with center lines , great car and had some good times , maybe someday i will have another .. thanks for the pics man..

 

purple cuda shaker ,with gilled rocker mouldings .i can see why its not for sale .its worth more than all the others combined .

 

I think it was a 383

 

Some goofy looking thing with spark plugs that went into the valve covers...

 

LOL....crap I bet your right thats what sucks.
My brother in law lost out on a $800 440/auto superbird at a garage sale right down the road from his house about 13 years ago. The widow was selling everything years after her husband died and no one ever knew that there was an old car under the tarp on the back side of the house. He stopped by when he saw them loading it onto a rollback truck.

I bet the Cuda isn't for sale because "That theres tha one were a gunna fix up somday."

 

What did the bricklin sell for?

 

Man, the last estate sale I went to with cars, the best thing was a '40 Ford pickup that had sat so long the frame was rotted through. The rest were a bunch of rotty Kaiser 4drs. I tried to buy a trailer made out of an AD Chevy pickup and it was frozen right into the ground, couldn't move it. In March no less.

 

I went to an estate sale a few years back. Guy had just left his cars where they died...for like 50 years. All sorts of neat stuff starting in the late 30's up to the early 80's.

I had been up a couple weeks early to try and buy a 60 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country 9 passenger dual air station wagon (now that's a mouthfull!) but the brother wouldn't sell early. Everything was just sitting in the woods with trees grown up around them.

Went back for the auction and the owners brother had dragged almost everything except the New Yorker out of the woods with a log chain and a bulldozer. What had been savable was trashed by banging into trees and stumps. Idiot!

I got my New Yorker for 1/4 what I had offered him earlier but it took me a day to get it out of the ground and on the trailer without finishing the destruction...literally had to cut a road...

 

They were waitin to get the foot print gas pedal installed.

 

there was a batchlor farmer estate auction up here last weekend about 35 cars 40 thru 70. a guy from work that he might get some thing cheep. he saw jay leno and just turned around and left

 

Chop, Cut, rebuild show just did a resto/mod on a Bricklin and rumor has it the company may return

 

And its going to sit there and go to shit for many more years. When will these momo's learn!?!?

 

Holy crap!..they got 20K for that Road Runner?

Guess my 68 Charger is worth more than I thought..
and in a hell of a lot better condition too.

 

was that the sell in columbia tn?

 

Air cleaner cover says "383".

 

Yep!

 

Great short story. I'd give a left one for a Superbird !

 

WTF? Ruined? Some people just dont get it, very few cars are ever 'ruined' its just if your a car guy or not I guess. I dont see any ruined cars there.
Doc.

 

When the frames rusted,there are giant holes in the floorboard,rockers they are ruined.
Check out the Avanti interior:


The VW looked like the Flintstone's car.Lots of places to stick you feet through.There was no floorboard left.

 

All of those cars are fixable. Floorpans can be cut out and replaced, as can rocker panels and even frame damage.

It's a shame they couldn't be kept inside but it's better that he kept them outside then they get scrapped or picked clean at a wrecking yard 25 years ago.

Cool pictures, thanks for sharing.