If only you could get a court order..........or (pull a dick move) call the county and then follow it up with a visit with some benjamins.:Smarty:
UN--BE--LIE--VA--BLE!!!! Random intakes strewn about, aluminum rear ends to run over....I think some freak force of nature guided you over there and forced you to see all that while waving it in your face that it would all continue to stay there and rot away!! Poods....have you been doing bad things lately? This was the punishment...so close yet so far away. On the other hand this is a twisted, tortuous and otherwise henious example of why our country is go great...it's our property rights. If this was Russia or some other third world craphole someone would come and seize the stuff. Very sad and very interesting at the same time. Some of the cars look fairly decent.....the frames may be toast as well as the floorboards but the rest of the bodies may be "OK". You just need to find their "hot" button..if it exists.
The cars look bad but almost all are fixable. Heck with enough $$ all are but I don't see anyone doing it. The one in the shed (72) is the easiest. I didn't even see any rust anywhere. Possible weak pans from ground moisture but that's no biggie. The Coupe is very solid. It was indoors up until 2 years back. I'm sure it's fixable. The RR car does need work. I'm sure it would need all pans and both quarters. The frames appeared to be strong but I couldn't see much of them. I have never run into many cars in this area with very rotted frames. Anyway, the father shoots straight. He told us plenty about the cars when we went back there again earlier this week. The coupe apparantely has paperwork all the way back to the dealer here in our city. He special ordered it for himself and then sold it not too long later. The others may not have much paper so I don't know if anyone would want to take them on as a resto. The white one might be rather easy to fix so it might be a taker if offered. The SX and former race car are going back to mother earth. I see this crap too often here. People just let good stuff go to the ground. There is a GS 3 miles from my house that's been rotting in a yard for 9 years now and the owner will not consider selling it. It's a great car even with the N25 bumper. Then there's the 71 GS8 miles from here that is all original with all paperwork. it's red with black int. N25 bumper and matching BBB. These people really could use the money but say they will fix it one day. It's going to go into the ground before it's over too.
Usually these people will only deal with close friends if they deal at all. Spent one whole summer in Western Kentucky dragging in Model T's with a friend whose dad owned a drive-in theater and started collecting them and parking them on the back ramps. That was like a magnet for anyone that had an old car of any type and soon they were overflowing with cars that ranged from a couple that we dug out of a creek bed to a complete 1937 Cord roadster that was in remarkable shape from good storage. Someone had converted it to an early 50's Olds drive train including RWD, and the block was cracked. Professional job, couldn't tell anything had been changed from the outside. A good cleanup and they put it right on display in their old car museum, cracked block and all. People used to drag them in, sometimes drove them, for ridiculous low money, once even just a free pass to get in to the drive in for a month..... admission was $.45 per person then (1964). Nicest ones were a 29 Chevy coupe (like new), and a 1921 Dodge touring car that ran. Maybe try to get to know someone who knows him? A big time collector in Mason, Michigan (when I worked at Olds) used that ploy and worked like a charm in many small towns. He had that down to a science. Never approached the owner directly, always through a friend of his/hers.
Hey Dave, I registered my father finally on the ROPS last week. He never got an email from the site allowing him to open his account. I emailed them but heard nothing. Do you know if something is up with the site?
There are several GS's rotting away around here. The TV coverage of the auctions has caused some of this. Everyone thinks the car they have is very valuable and is a candidate for a restoration. Even parts cars will rot because the owners misconception of value... So I guess in a way the TV coverage of the auctions is going to help inflate the values even further because of the huge number of cars that will rot instead of being fixed, restored or parted. Bert
Welcome to ROP!!!....the site has become basically useless recently (bad server service or whatever the flavor-of-the-day problem happens to be). On top of that it's not uncommon for people to have problems getting registered over there, get email responses, etc. I know people on here that have tried a couple times to get their registration in (I even emailed or pmd the admin and asked them to help him through it) and finally gave up. It's a great place (except for some of the postings and responses you get on some threads) but lately it takes so long to try to post or manuever around the site that I usually give up and do nothing. That said, it's a free site and available solely due to the kindness, dedication to Olds's and goodwill of the site owners..the Hunts. I just wish they would ask for money to help support the site and move it to a better server service (or whatever they need to do). Good luck.
You hit the nail on the head. Myself and all of my friends always flash the money while the wife/girlfriend is watching. Not to be crude but she can provide (or not provide) something to him we can't, it almost always works. :Brow: :Brow:
Thanks for the ROPS info. I hope they get the site worked out. I was on there often a few years back when doing the first 442 with dad but I never became a member. Just used it for reference. He really needs to be a member. He loves those Olds.
