I really like pics of vintage tin. This stash is owned by an antiquer in his 80's. No interest in the cars anymore but won't let them go. How many other ones are out there? I have been working on this guy for a few years with no luck. His wife is even trying to get him to sell me something. I would like to see the cars back in circulation. We are at the point where a lot of the old guys that were smart enuff to pick up/hoard everything in the old days will be dying off. There will be a lot of good tin showing up in the next decade. Post your pics of ones that got away or can't be had yet.
Last one. He has lots more cars, not all fords. Must be a couple of dozen goodies there. God, I love living in the sticks. Lots of tin.
All I can say is, keep workin' on him, it's quite a bountiful treasure he's got going. Makes me woder if centuries from now, there'll be an automotive equivalent to the Egyptian pyramids, where archealogists and historians find the tin remains of our kulture.
I get the impression from my girlfriend's teens that they're stepmom's family saves EVERY thing in storage, that there's cars from all decades to be found,if one could dig them out. Makes the mind run wild with thoughts of my first street rod project-to-be waiting to be discovered, but even though I'm friendly terms with her ex-husband and his wife, I can't figure out how to work out a tour. I prob'ly shouldn't even think about it, but I do. I mean, why let such things rot away in storage?
[ QUOTE ] All I can say is, keep workin' on him, it's quite a bountiful treasure he's got going. Makes me woder if centuries from now, there'll be an automotive equivalent to the Egyptian pyramids, where archealogists and historians find the tin remains of our kulture. [/ QUOTE ] keep intouch and read the obituary column in the daily paper every day. That will go in an estate sale.
Next time you go by, bring his wife some flowers. And remember, most of the time women out live men. So just keep working on her and eventually all of them may end up in your garage. Did I really just write that? Man, I'm a dick!
A few I shot a couple weeks ago in an older friend's shed.He and his best bud(the owner)started them back in the 60s,untouched since.Definitely NOT for sale.
[ QUOTE ] Next time you go by, bring his wife some flowers. And remember, most of the time women out live men. So just keep working on her and eventually all of them may end up in your garage. Did I really just write that? Man, I'm a dick! [/ QUOTE ] The first time we went by she wasn't even nice, downrite mean. The next time I took the 47 and holiday trailer by and she was impressed and talked our ears off. The next time with the motorhome and car trailer she invited us in for pie and tea and tried to talk her husband into selling us something to put on our empty trailer. Maybe next time is the charm. There are a bunch of finished amateur restorations in a big shed too.
Even though I'm not so old myself, I have, and have had, several old friends who had gathered up tin for years, and now they're dying and their wives and kids are calling me up all the time to come and get this or that. I got a call the night before last from one guy's daughter who said they had sold the old guy's house and needed a 1929 Ford pickup with a running Studabaker engine in it removed by Friday. She said if I I'd give her $175 I could have it, so I winched it up on my trailer after work tonight and hauled it home. No picture of it yet, but here's some recent stuff I've picked up that way.
More recent stash hauled home. Got 5 (FIVE) '35-'37 Ford pickups from the estate of one deceased friend along with 13 flathead engines!
Southfork, You dirty Chicken Fucker! I AM jealous!!!! I do know where theres some motherloads, but I've never had the audacity to take a camera along. I run a different angle. I always plan to spend the day and and learn what I can from those who no longer can-do. I may end up with a car, I don't care. I've got too damn many already. And None of them as cool or as gooda shape as what you guys've shown or the ole timers around here have. But hey...I'm still dragging the remnants of my latest 'treasure' from out of a woods!
Rooster, you just see what's on the hamb. I get him all the time walking up to my desk with that "Guess what I beat you to this time?" shit eatin grin on his face!
Cool pics-thats the kinda of stuff you have dreams about and wake up sweatn cause you know it wont ever be yours--well it sure wont be if you dont try.I say keep in touch with the owners and be honest and friendly--you never know what might happen.And if you dont get anything--so what--you made some new friends and may learn a thing or two from an old timer--who has experienced a lot in life.I feel old cars really never belong to any of us, we are just caretakers- who should use-maintain-and enjoy them-as a tool to make friends with others who are as nuts as we are about them.If taken care of they will be here when we are gone and hopefully some one will enjoy them as much as we did.
Hey [Smokin] Joe: It's not like I "beat you out of" this stuff, but rather time and interest in some older guys is unexpectedly paying off. I made friends with several old antiquers/hot rodders 20 to 25 years ago and didn't expect their widows and kids to even remember me after the guys passed away, but somehow they do. And when they want to clean out a garage or the yard, they often get ahold of me. And the amazing thing is they sometimes don't care whether the old tin is valuable or not, they just want to get rid of it.
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