Re: [Amc-list] Frustration

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc,

There are all kinds of hobbyists.  I have come to
realize that some cars are going to get parted out.  I
have bought several from junkyards or on their way to
junkyards, and the only way that they are going to be
any good to anyone is in parts.  You might as well
make some money on them if you enjoy dealing in the
parts.  It's frustrating if you try to save a
low-demand car and keep it from being parted out.  I
have one sitting at the curb in front of my house
right now.  Needs paint, a clutch, and that mysterious
oiling problem to the valve train needs to be sorted
out.

I know what you mean about some Ebay auctions.  Some
sellers are just fools.  A rising tide does not float
all boats.  

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA

--- Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I took it, it would be yet another of my long list
of
> "in service to the 
> hobby" gaffes.  I'd be waiting forever to get my
> money back out of it.

In looking over the "did not sell" auctions,
> most of the high bids 
> really should have bought the car.
> 
> So the question is "what in the heck do these guys
> think they have?  Gold 
> on wheels?"
> 
> There's a mid-seventies Gremlin someone was selling
> that got bid up to 
> $5k.  Five thousand.  For a Gremlin with a six.  The
> car was far from 
> perfect; the engine compartment especially needed
> atention, because it was 
> not detailed properly at all.  It didn't sell, and
> the same guy admits he 
> had run an autction for it the previous week and it
> didn't sell then, either.
> 
> Is this all just Barrett-Jacksonism?  Everyone
> thinks their rust bucket is 
> worth $100,000 just because it's older than their
> son or daughter.
> 

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