Like it or not (and for the record I love it) this is the American way.
Capitalism at its best. The market will dictate the appropriate price.
For every little old lady there are hundreds of scumb#$% that will have
you drive 250 miles to see a perfect mint condition 0 mile original
owner car that was dragged from a swamp yesterday after sitting
underwater for 15 years. It is only worth what someone is willing to
pay for it.
Scott
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>From: "Sperduto, Nick" <SperdutoN@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] RIP OFF OLD LADY COMMENTS
>X-To: VAN HOY <VANHILLA@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Sorry, I didn't originally try to start any kind of war.
>Tell me, what's it worth. The car needs a complete resto, doesn't run,
=
>needs
>full interior, needs an entire quarter panel, fender and trunk lid. =
>Which to
>me is a major piece of body work. If no one has bought the car in a =
>year of
>advertisement. I can't be the only one that thinks the car is not worth
>much. What's better, my $200 or the $50 from the junk man.
>and she's not a little old lady.
>Personally, collector car or brand new car. My job as the consumer is =
>to
>spend as little of my hard earned cash as possible.
>Something makes me think you are a salesman
> ----------
>From: VAN HOY
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] RIP OFF OLD LADY COMMENTS
>Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 10:47AM
>
>Looks like FLAME WARS are starting!!!=A0 Cut it out!!!
>=A0
>Look guys and gals, this is the good ol' U.S. of A.; if you want to =
>cheat
>some lil' ol' lady it's up to you [and her]; if you want to ask $5,000
=
>for
>your parts car and let it rust that's up to you too!!!
>=A0
>I've seen lots of cars rust away, including a '41 Ch-- convertible that
=
>was
>parked for lack of tires in 1944.
>=A0
>I've also seen a guy, recently, a real jerk, talk the original owner of
=
>a
>'66 Plymouth with 75K down from $275 to $265. [True story!]=A0 Then he
=
>wrecked
>it, collected ten times the price in insurance money, and won't sell me
=
>any
>parts because he's saving them for his next '66.=A0 [this was the 2d =
>he's
>wrecked]
>=A0
>I paid $2,500 for a #4 car.=A0 Was it too much?=A0 YES!=A0 Is anyone =
>complaining?
>NO!=A0 The old man dying of cancer who saved the car from being wrecked
=
>or
>crushed for 43 years deserved something for his trouble.=A0 If you =
>don't have
>a car you don't have a project and you can put all your sweat equity =
>time
>into honeydo projects.
>=A0
>Both extremes make me mad.=A0 $200 bucks for a complete '48 Dodge is =
>too low,
>even if they did make a million of 'em.=A0 It's more a matter of =
>attitude.=A0 If
>you set out to steal something, or hold somebody up, or you think your
>attitude is better than the next guy's, or your time is more valuable,
>either way you give decent car collectors a black mark.=A0 It's =
>downright
>sociopathic to be thinking of how you can get what you want and screw
>everyone else.
>=A0
>End of sermon, my blood pressure is up, back to work.
>=A0
> --Roger van Hoy, '55DeSoto, '42DeSoto, '66Plymouth, '73 Duster
>Paid too much for all of them, paid too much for parts, spent too much
=
>time
>fixing them--so what?
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Dulmage < dulmage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx < L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:30 PM
>Subject: [FWDLK] RIP OFF OLD LADY COMMENTS
>
>
>If the comments about ripping off a little old lady were in reference =
>to the
>car that had the potential to sell for 1200 bucks or more when it was =
>parted
>out but someone was going to make an offer for $200. then you are =
>really
>making me mad.
>=A0
>Let me tell you that dreamers hope to sell cars for the sum value of =
>parts.
>Typically they won't part them out, no they sit there with the junk on
=
>their
>front yard till you no what freezes over and nobody benefits. The =
>cheapest
>part of any restoration had better be the purchase price cause the real
=
>cost
>doesn't start till after that. There is no rip off in a fair exchange
>between two parties. Whatever they agree on is fair exchange. I =
>challenge
>anybody who thinks the other party is being had to step up to the plate
=
>and
>ante up. I am sick of people advising folks that their old crates have
=
>big
>value. As is, as they sit they don't.Let them restore them, absorb the
=
>cost,
>then they have value. Potential value is just that, potential and until
>someone takes the action to promote and sell the parts individually it
=
>is
>nothing more than unrealized potential. Absolutely useless.
>
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