Hey guys. Took these pictures in March 2011. It`s in the Hamilton Ontario Canada area. I wanted to buy it for parts. The guy groaned a bit and said he would think about it and talk to his brother the co-owner. Ge did at that time sell me the anvil short console which is in rough shape. I just lifted it out and gave him a 20. He called me a couple of weeks later and said they are going to restore it. How many times have you heard this. He has since moved it to the said property where it is difficult to see from the road. John
I hear it a lot, locally there's a 63 Riv shell, a 65 Skylark vert, no roof or interior, a 60 Tbird shell in primer all sitting outside. All have been sitting for more than two years waiting to get restored. I go in and ask them once in a while if they want to sell, give some else a crack at them or use them for parts , but no there going to finish them Bruce
Nothing more frustrating than hearing someone say "they're going to restore it" and it sits there forever. There's a guy in my dads neighborhood who has a '68 Mustang GT 390 Fastback, that I've been trying to buy for a year. I've stopped a dozen times and left cards, but no luck as of yet. It just sit outside in the elements..... Best part is, about a month ago, I spoke with the owner again and offered $5000 for it. Said that's what he paid for it back in 94-95, but he wanted to keep it. I told him that he'd need to put (follow me) fifteen into it and he said that was awesome as he had five set aside that he saved up. I was a bit confused for a second, as I said "five" won't even cover the paint. He responds saying, "you just said fifteen was all it needs". This guy thought I meant $1500!!!!!! :spank: I said $15,000 to him and his face dropped. Are people this crazy out there? Needless to say, I'll continue with the follow ups until I see the car gone. Hopefully in a moment of weakness, he'll cave.
Just seen this thread. I see this car has a couple rare options: Easy fill gas tank and the sunroof convertible top! What a waste. At some point it won't even be a good parts car. There are people out there that get kicks for having something that other people want. They have no intentions of doing anything with it and their kids will have to do something with it when the eventually pass. But then it will be that was Daddies car and carry on the legacy of the story. But i'm thinking they are some times lonely people that just want someone to come up and talk to them and tell the big story about what they are going to do with the car some day. Anyway some day that will go to the crusher or mother nature will rot it into the earth and have real green grass there!
Most likely the clock isn't any good. The good news the stainless wheel opening mouldings will still be laying there when the earth takes it back in as rust. I seen a convert cluster with a clock go for less than $35 last month on Ebay.
Hey Guys. Another good one happened abot 12 years ago when a guy in town had a 66 Skylark 2dr ht. Sitting for a few years. The whole side had been side swiped. Of course he was going to restore it. I went in about 4 times over a 2 year period and the same answer. I even had a friend go in. The guy had both our phone numbers. Soon after I was at a local small time wreckers in town and there was the car. It was squeezed in with other cars so you couldn`t get the doors open. I said to the owner of the yard I would like to get the buckets and floor shift console. He said to come back in a week and he would have the car out where I could work on it. I went back exactly a week later and they had crushed it. I said did you take the seats and console out. He said no. John
I got a little luckier with my 63 Wildcat 4 door. It had been sitting in the back field of a farm I had my RV parked at for about 8 years. I asked about it numerous times. Each time the same answer. Keeping it for son as autoshop project. Long story short, the adults on the property have been estranged for some time. I awake in my RV one morning to see a tow truck leaving the property WITH the Wildcat and an old Saab. Off to the recyclers. No markings on truck so I havean anxious wait till 5:30 that evening to find where they were taken. I make the call. Wildcat is next in line for processing. They'll hold it for me to come take a look, which I did as soon as I could the next day. I bought it off them with paper ennabling me to get new title and paid 4x what my friends got for it, paying pretty much what I offered them in the first place. For the cost of fuel, they deliverd it back to the farm the next day. So that car got lucky.:TU: There's a 69 GTO down the road the owner wont sell. It has almost vanished under blackberries. What can you do?ou:
There was a 71 GS sitting next to a garage for years about a block from my folks place. It was complete minus the engine and had typical a-body rust on quarters/fenders, but overall wasnt bad at all from what I could tell. I stopped a few times and asked if they'd want to sell it, and you guessed it, "nope, we're gonna restore it". After about 5 years I noticed it was gone and saw the owner outside so stopped to chat with him about it. He said he got sick of looking at it and mowing around it, so he took it to the crusher. He was real proud that he got almost $500 out of it!!ou: For reference, this took place around 2005. The hood alone was worth that!!:af:
OK V-8 Buick People: I don't plan on making more friends with this post so please read carefully. Sure it's too bad these people don't sell you their cars....... NO, Not really. The cars belong to them and respect that and QUIT WHINING ABOUT IT. Why? There are millions of collector Buicks for sale as well as every make under the sun and they are "really" for sale. Try focusing on that. I have 91 Buicks in my collection and I rarely sell anything. Are they rotting, going to pot and becoming part of the Universe? Probably so. Why do I keep them? I really don't need to justify that to anybody except myself. Let it be and focus your energy on something more constructive, Mitch
Constructive, eh? Wouldnt it be more constructive to at least make an effort to purchase these cars and apply their remaining useable parts to a car that can be brought back to its once great splendor than it would be to a.) let them rot into nothing or b.) crush them and sell the scrap to china? Which one seems more "constructive" to you? And these "millions of collector Buicks" you mention that are in fact for sale will hopefully get sold and used for their intended purpose. So why not try to save one that isnt? For those that you can 99.9% tell arent ever going to do anything with it, its a win-win-win situation. They end up with some extra cash for something they (more than likely) werent going to use, you end up with some parts you need for your project(while perhaps getting it for a slightly cheaper price), and these parts are used instead of wasted meaning youve preserved another set of parts for another enthusiast that you didnt have to buy because you found these. No, not everyone who has these cars sitting is going to let them rot. And no, not everyone is going to restore them. And no, not all of them will sell these cars. BUT, it sure is worth a chance to ask and see, and no matter what answer you get, at least you tried. For those of us that see these ever disappearing classics (and hard to find parts) its frustrating when you can tell just by the owners demeaner that nothing will ever be done with it. Its not "whining" and "not being constructive" its trying to wrap your head around what appears to many as an illogical (IMHO) decision. I do agree with you though that the owners in fact do not have to justify their reasoning not to sell, just as I do not have to justify my reasoning for thinking to myself that they are morons for their decision to waste instead of sell. Cheers :beer
lrlforfun of course saying something like that won't make any friends. First who collects a quantity of 91 Buicks or 91 cars in general. I smell something stinky cause I think some one is full of it. So you must have a junk yard? 91 buicks rusting into the ground and you don't care? You truly have a problem since your kind of bragging about it. You must hate your family since once you croak they will have the clean up the mess and even deal with the EPA if they try to sell the land they are on from all the oil and antifreeze leaking into the ground. Also you must be real popular with the Neighbors and the county with that number of Buicks if just sitting ona piece of property if not a business. I'll probably be seeing you on a episode of "Hoarders" at some point.
I have a '95 Crown Vic with 30M miles and a few battle scars. Is white with no wheelcovers. Not a cop but sure feels like it...at times. :TU:
irlforfun really has a soft spot for '60 Buicks. I suspect that he is the anonymous owner of the farm of '60 Buicks of which I have seen a few pictures. I like irl. He posts useful stuff and was appropriately aghast when weim55 chopped up a '60 Invicta for parts (any car being chopped up is a shame- I would have chopped it up too - just clarifying). But my opinion is that it's OK to be upset at watching cars rust away for no damn good reason. It's not OK to give the owner grief - he's right, it's their car - but it's OK to come here and vent about it. In my neighborhood, when I was a kid, there was a '65 Tempest 2-door. Red. Cannot remember if it was a post coupe or hardtop. It was a 326. The owner let it sit in her side yard for over a decade. It was a beautiful car at the outset. In the end, a sun-bleached, dried-out, faded hulk on 4 vestiges of rubber sunk into the earth. I tried to buy it several times as a teen (which shows you I had good taste in cars even then). No sale. Always the same answer. It's not for sale, now beat it. Still frustrates me. She left a '70s/'80s Plymouth Horizon out in the same spot a few years later for about the same length of time. Oddly, that one did not bother me...
Most owners deserve repect...why they keep cars is their busines. With cars somtimes it a "mutual" feeling with owners.
