Krooser
Well-Known Member
Old cars are like women they don't have to be perfect to be fun.
Yes that car needs some work BUT with a little money you could own the only one on your block.
I used to transport collector cars worth millions... mostly Ferraris, Packards, exotic European stuff. I'd hang around the shows and auctions waiting for my customer to buy something and have me drag it back to Detroit or Milwaukee where my two large customers were based.
Invevitably they would beat up on the cars they were interested in, try to convince other potential buyers that the specific was wasn't worth the expected sale price then try to steal it.
I hauled a 190 SL back from Ft Lauderdal having bird dogged the deal when I found it listed on a local FL shoppers guide.
I bought the car for $13k... had a piss poor resto, an English SU carb, a sheet of galvinized sheet metal for a belly pan and numerous other defects.
My customer said I scammed him when I used his cash to buy the turd. I disclosed everything. Back then a nice original was worth $22k.
Two months later I dragged to the Auburn Cord Dusenberg show and a middle eastern Shiek bought it for $80,000!
My customer never said thanks for buying it so cheap .
Yes that car needs some work BUT with a little money you could own the only one on your block.
I used to transport collector cars worth millions... mostly Ferraris, Packards, exotic European stuff. I'd hang around the shows and auctions waiting for my customer to buy something and have me drag it back to Detroit or Milwaukee where my two large customers were based.
Invevitably they would beat up on the cars they were interested in, try to convince other potential buyers that the specific was wasn't worth the expected sale price then try to steal it.
I hauled a 190 SL back from Ft Lauderdal having bird dogged the deal when I found it listed on a local FL shoppers guide.
I bought the car for $13k... had a piss poor resto, an English SU carb, a sheet of galvinized sheet metal for a belly pan and numerous other defects.
My customer said I scammed him when I used his cash to buy the turd. I disclosed everything. Back then a nice original was worth $22k.
Two months later I dragged to the Auburn Cord Dusenberg show and a middle eastern Shiek bought it for $80,000!
My customer never said thanks for buying it so cheap .
