Garage find..

[old_skool]

YOU GUYS ARE GOING AT THIS ALL WRONG !! YOU WILL NEED A CHILD THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO GET IN! I take my son with me tell the person with the car I'm looking for a project for my son works every time and usally get it cheaper its not a lie they will all be my boys sooner or later lol! it's just that peoples guard goes down when you have a young child with you!! :happy3: SO LIKE I SAID YOU JUST NEED TO PASS ME THE INFO I'LL BET I COULD GET THAT OL' GIRL BOUGHT !! LOL :hello2:

hahaha...unless they don't like kids...dirty rotten little ankle biting curtain climbers...bah humbug...hahaha, everybody loves a good blueberry pie, take the pie! Someone want to finagle a 72-74 Challenger that's been hidden in a garage near me, I'll show you where. When I drove truck for a while, I use to carry a separate map and marked on the map everywhere I use to run across a cool hidden gem. And there's still a running 66 coronet for 2k asking nearby.

 

[TekHousE]

The very first Mopar I ever purchased was because I had ridden past the thing parked out the front of a fairly untidy house and garden. I was on the train...

I saw it for a week, then borrowed my grandads car and drove around there, knocked on the door, and a fully fledged bona fide 1%'er opened the door. Big dude..! It was then that I noticed the harley's in the car port.

He asked me what I wanted, and out of my 17 year old mouth, I hear the words...'Is that 2 door for sale?'

He thought about it and said, yep for the right price. I did not even know what it was at that point, so I asked to see under the hood. He goes and gets the keys, opens it up, and pops the hood. Sitting there was a factory correct 318 Fireball v8. The car was a 1970 Valiant 770 coupe, factory V8, (like the Dodge Dart in the US). Still had the beige vinyl roof, running on steel wheels and hubcaps. It had the 727 trans, console and front buckets with head rests.

I offered him 700 Aussie dollars for it (all I had in the bank at the time). He said yep! He was happy it was going to a kid so enthusiastic about the car..

The next day he even helped me get it started, as the battery was flat. I test drove it and did the deal!

I say go knock on the door! You never ever know if you don't!

 

[Coyoteduster]

There's more lost every day from indecision than the wrong decision. Just knock on the door, inquire about the car, and if the answer is she's not for sale leave your name and number and ask that they call you if and when they ever decide to sell. Then I would follow up every six months.

 

[Funship32]

There's a more devious approach as well. A family friend of our used to fly B-25 bombers just after WWII, mainly post-maintenance check flights after repairs had been done. He and his crew would take off, and if it was a day hop and they got hungry, they would fly around and look for a big farm with a road nearby that they could land on. They would land their plane in front of the farm, get out, and start looking in the cowlings until someone from the farm came out to see what was going on. This inevitably resulted in an invitation to lunch, and then they would miraculously discover the problem and take off again.

So, what you might want to do is get in your own car, and have a mechanical issue in front of their house. Sit there with your hood up until someone comes out, then start up a conversation about old cars.

I may just have to try this! With my car that is. ;-)