soo let it rot 73 duster

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48limo

48limo

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found this duster,noone home,left a note,went to neighbors,she said the lady wont sell it,many people have asked about it,next step is talking to the lady in person,tell her we can fix it if she wants

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Man, I really HATE when people do that...There are a couple cars in my area that are like that...Owners would rather have them rot, then sell them to be fixed up....
 

The question is, is it better for these cars to rot in someone's yard, or for them to be junked and probably scrapped? Because several times, I've watched a car sitting in somebody's yard, never moving, never making any progress, stopped to ask, and been told the old chestnut about "gonna fix it up"- only to later visit the local junkyard and find the crushed remnants of aforementioned car- meaning my $500 offer was an insult, but the junkyard's $150 offer was good money... :angry7:
 
It sucks when people do that, there are some around my area that do the same thing.
 
The worst is when the car owner comes to the door with one leg missing, can't see in one eye, in a wheelchair, on oxygen, and can't even mow their damned grass but "I'm gonna fix that up here real soon".
 
Got one like that close to here, too. A '70 Duster which has sat in one spot for ages with the grass growing around it every summer. "Won't sell." Left a business card for the owner to at least fix it. No word. Old widow who won't part with it because it was her late husband's car. I can understand the sentimental reasons behind it but 9 times out of 10 when the surviving spouse passes away and the kids inherit the property these cars are the first thing to go to the scrap in an effort to clean things up.

For all the years of keeping a memory around the memory dies anyway. Selling it to someone to fix it or fixing it up and then leaving it to the kids would keep the memory alive for a lot more years.
 
I've a neighbor with a '69 R/T Charger, letting it rot in the weeds because he will fix it up some day............idiot.
 
i sold my cuda after 7 years of trying to come up with money and time to properly restore it. figured i had my fun, time to give someone else a chance. so now i have a $500. driver that doesnt need to be restored correctly ,and it seems to be more up my alley with my funds.
 
A lady near me has a 68 or 69 GTS sitting under a Pine tree. Husband bought new and raced it on the streets back in the day. Everyone in town has heard the story. He passed about 10 years ago. When I was searching for a father-son project I found her and talked to her. Told her of my plan but still would not even think of selling it. This was 3 years ago. She is the last house on deadend road, so hard to do a drive by to check on it. I wonder if it still there?
 
Here's another twist to the story.....
I have at least 30 a bodies like that one that are builders or parts cars that i saved from the crusher in the '80s and early '90s. I have tried to sell them for reasonable prices so they get saved or the parts used.
I have only sold 4 in the last 10 years. I don't like seeing good builder cars and parts go to waste. I've given away more parts or traded for stuff i need for others than i've sold. I also had a lot of parts stolen over the years.
After awhile, people get tired of looky-loos and dreamers that aren't serious.
I would sell a car in that condition for 4 or 500 dollars, and if it's a 340 or a 360 car in that shape for double that, are my prices out of line? All my builders have title, so that's not an issue.
Bottom line is, it's their car and they have the right to do with it as they please.
Anybody serious about buying a project car off of me, p.m. me and i'll send you pics and descriptions or they will continue to rot.
I love these cars and want them to go to a good home!
 
Abodyjoe, I agree!! lol. the way I look at it is if you show up with a bunch of 20's and they dont know how much it is, they just know they want it, even more if they are desparate for money, then they will sell. Then again it could be their first car or belong to a relative that died so it could be of sentimental value, but that thing is pretty much ratted out. I would say 800 is even to much unless its a 340 car.
 
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