Who has spent more on storage fees for project car than car is worth?

[44070dart]

Not me but my cousin had a '76 Buick Electra 225, deuce and a quarter he liked to say. He had the car in storage in a friends barn for 19 years. Think he paid $25 a month. The roof of the barn collapsed a few years ago damaging the car. He tried to get the guys insurance to cover the damage but it didn't work. Car was in great condition with 34k on it when he put it away. He got $2200 for it from some guy who had four other 225's. The good news is he finally got off his *** and his wife pushed him to get a muscle car. He has a '67 Fairlane with a transplanted 427 in it. I need to get a picture of it, car is beautiful, black with buckets and a 4-speed.

 

[451Mopar]

Just my opinion, but turning an R/T into a parts car, is a bit painful.
You could probably find somebody on here to pay you enough to recoup some of your losses.

One of the reasons it has been sitting so long, has been deciding what to do with the car. 25 years ago is was just a stripped down non-numbers matching bracket race car. I was going to make it into a back half race car, but then the prices of the R/T really started going up. But the car, being non numbers matching and the previous owner lost the fender tag when they re-painted the engine compartment. Really, with what the car is, if restored, I don't see it as much different than a R/T tribute car. All the originality was gone long ago, it just still has the correct VIN numbers for an R/T.

 

[YY1]

...except it's a REAL R/T.

 

[DeltaV]

I don't know if I spent more in 25 years of storage fees than my all numbers matching, 77k mile XP29N0G (w/4 speed, etc. etc.) is worth, but no one in my family went hungry.

 

[BeeKool]

Are the trunk and radiator support numbers still present?
Theres a fellow trying to sell an R/T that needs some help. Perhaps take both cars and make one.

R/T Coronets are the most beautiful car ever IMHO

 

[YY1]

...but then you'd be turning one into a parts car...

 

[BeatersRus]

i had this 71 amc javelin,that i built back in the late 90s out of 3 diff cars...
just a base plain jane jav,304 auto.
( you guys think finding mopar parts are a pita,try being an amc-er )

anyways,i held onto that particular car for 12 years,then sold it,
then bought it back stored it some more,and then sold it again.
car was worth maybe 2500 i sold it for 1800,
and probably spent triple that in storage over the years,much less dragging it around the country.

i even at one point wrote to the Guru mopar mags about swapping a magnum w a 518 into it.
imagine my surprise at not only getting an answer,
but then seeing my question in the tech topics one month.

i just couldnt get my sh1t together w that car,
i needed a 72 and up torqueflite and i was determined to 401 it.
never happened..other cars came and went,projects drivers sellers endless.

that car now sits in a tiny lil shed and the guy that bought it hasnt done a thing to it.
sadly,it will probably rot into pieces there...after all that its been thru.
maybe it was just the car itself....?

 

[flypaper]

I was guilty for years of paying a lot for storage and I don't regret it.
I would do it again if needed to.
it let me keep something I would of had to gotten rid of
and I would of never been able to replace it.
and that is worth more to me then what the value of the car is.

 

[eldubb440]

some people smoke 2 packs a day, others go to the bar, the less fortunate pay alimony.......... storing a car is cheaper than all 3, there are worse places to waste money

 

[BDF6]

I think I've spent more on fuel than my car is worth now.