Sad Split Window in Car Craft

[Tom Bryant]

On page 15 of the January 2005 issue of Car Craft is a reader submitted picture of a black? 1963 coupe that appears has sat in front of this garage for decades. It is surrounded by other junk vehicles and piled with trash to the point it is barely visible. Only the senders name is given, no city.

Anyone have a scanner?

Tom

 

[JohnZ]

Yup, but it made me sick to look at it - threw the mag out the other day after reading it.

 

[Ron Miller]

On page 15 of the January 2005 issue of Car Craft is a reader submitted picture of a black? 1963 coupe that appears to has sat in front of this garage for decades. It is surrounded by other junk vehicles and piled with trash to the point it is barely visible. Only the senders name is given, no city.

Anyone have a scanner?

Tom

Haven't seen the '63, but I know where there's a '62 in I'm sure as bad of condition. I've tried for years to buy it, but he's going to fix it one of these days. Been going to for 30+ years now. Initially, it was inside and needed only a replacement block. Now, the building has fallen in, the paint is near gone, rusting bumpers, rain getting inside thru the cheap plastic tarp, and it needs nearly everything. So sad . . . . .

 

[FX GS]

 

[Tom Bryant]

I'd bet that if you could get someone to answer the door they would also say they are going to fix it up someday.

 

[vette]

I got a 1960 that I have tried to buy for many years. The orig. owner was a good friend of my dad. They are both gone now but the son still has the car. He has it parked outside under trees.The top is long gone, the car is filled with what ever has fallin from the trees for the last 10 years. The car is rotting into the ground. and every time I have asked to buy the car the son has told me he is fixin it up. Now he has no money lives in a run down house I would not let my dogs live in but will not take money for the car or even try to keep the car stored. Just letting it slowly turn to dust. The paint has been burned off by the sun years ago and the glass looks like fur now. As you can see this makes me nuts. Sorry for the rant but I will never understand why people do this.

 

[IH2LOSE]

There is a C1 vette in the town I grew up in, sitting since 1968.I did everything I could to save the car,It still sits under a plastic tarp.
I have invited the owner of the car to this forum several times to get information on restoring the car,
I send him my extra vette catalogs,
I drop off my vette magazines that I would recycle,
I have sat with him and his daughter for coffe and shown them my restoration plan books,showing him how I actually restore /save a car.
I have replaced a set of dry rotted cover on the car with him.
I let him drive my 66.
I have explained I am a car lover,Not a dealer trying to make a buck.
I mail him copies of the vette show fliers in our area (probably 5 vette related show in a season)
I have also explained that allthough he plans to restore the car,this is no longer a back yard mecanics job.every thing metal on the car is wrotted and rusted and needs complete replacement.( worse then the car I purchased) and that the restoration cost will far out weigh the value of the car.

I know for sure I am doing my part to try and save a car.This guy does not plan on selling EVER and I think a shop restoration is out of his means unless he hits the lotto.And this car is destined never to hit the roads again.


So since I have started work on my 62 I have not tried to contact him as I normally would have done every year before winter who knows maybee this year he will sell it (I tell my self that every time I went to visit it)


For sure when the 62 is complete I will stop by and take him for a ride in it.

 

[smook]

vette,


They do this because they can!

Why not offer a certain amount of $$$..., show the money and then he might do the deal!! Might get him started to think about it.

Good luck.
-Bill.

 

[IH2LOSE]

vette,


They do this because they can!

Why not offer a certain amount of $$$..., show the money and then he might do the deal!! Might get him started to think about it.

Good luck.
-Bill.

I can tell you from me personally rescuing cars like this from people.They are not driven by money actually they get highley offended by you showing them cash.They want the car.They want to restore it,They just dont have the means, and they plan on doing it shortly in the future.

These old cars are like freinds or they are part of there younger days that they just cant part with.They are there day dreams of how they will once again drive the car from there younger crazy days,It really is not so easey to just throw down money on the table,in the past that has gotton me thrown off the property.

The last mustang I saved in 1995 (With only 14,000 original document miles on it,sitting out side on its belly in the grass and leaves since 1972 )

I was able to aquire only by promising the owner to paint it the color of his choice and a promise of taking him for a ride in it.and also when I sold it to offer it to him first. All of whitch I honored I also gave him a photo album of the restoration and the completed car he has to this day.

 

[67HEAVEN]

Larry,

You should have been a psychologist.

 

[JJS]

I got my inspection sticker from a guy operating a run down garage this past September here in MA. In one of his bays he had a beautiful Dodge Charger RT, with a 400ci engine that was rated (from what he told me) at nearly 500hp. The car was purple, and it appeared to be a very straight car.

To make a long story short, he told me he purchased it for next to nothing (I think it was under $2K), although it needed some engine work. He was dropping off a hemi charger that he sold to someone in Arizona, and noticed the car just a few houses away from the guy he sold the hemi to.

He asked the guy that bought the hemi if the other car was for sale, and the guy said "I've been trying to buy it from him for years, but he just won't give it up. Don't even bother asking." Well, on the way down the street, the guy stopped, bought the car for next to nothing, and brought it back with him. The guy told him he just didn't want his neighbor to have it.

Why not have a friend try to purchase it from him. Maybe this guy just can't bear to see this car sitting in your garage, or worse yet, you driving it after it's fully restored!

 

[RedRagTop]

He won't part with this one, either...

 

[ThomC]

How sad is that?

That picture - and the thought of other potentially beautiful midyears slowly rusting away under tarps - is enough to break your heart.

:cry

 

[61 Silver]

For over 15 years I tried to buy trade or barter for a 1962 non matching number Corvette. The car set under pine trees (the trees were very small when the car was first parked) and was rusting away (metal parts). The Corvette needed to be restored and was in sad shape. The story always seems to be the same. I plan on restoring it someday. Last year the car went to California ( The car was in Western New York) and the sale price was $8,000. The car actually fell apart when they towed from under the trees. The frame was missing in the center of the car. I guess someone needed a title.



Ray

 

[jerrybramlett]

The above posts about procrastinators are far too kind.

THEY ARE CRAZY!

I can't stand to even talk to them anymore. I won't beg those lunatic owners to act. Life is too short to mess with such nuts, and there are still plenty of other cars out there to be restored.

 

[IH2LOSE]

The above posts about procrastinators are far too kind.

THEY ARE CRAZY!

I can't stand to even talk to them anymore. I won't beg those lunatic owners to act. Life is too short to mess with such nuts, and there are still plenty of other cars out there to be restored.

Jerry you are absolutely correct THEY ARE CRAZY

But show me a sane vette person

 

[MoeJr]

When I see a picture of any Vette but especially a mid year under a tarp it breaks my heart. I would give my left n** to have one but I cannot afford one yet. But these clowns let them rot under tarps. I think we should form a posse and just beat the daylights out of these guys for being so ignorant. ad

 

[Gasman]

I'm saving a 61 and now found a 64, i just can't do 2 at once.

 

[Mac]

I'm saving a 61 and now found a 64, i just can't do 2 at once.

Man, that's like waving a steak under the nose of a starving bear. I can hear some guys slathering from here. Thank God you didn't mention where it is or there would be an exodus of Vette-Hunters coming for a look.

I know I can't afford another one but... is it a convertible or a coupe?

-Mac

 

[maxphunn]

You know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I can't walk by one of my "restored" vettes without smiling. I bet 67heaven gets one big grin when he looks at his "modified"
red beauty. Several people love their "driver" old Corvettes. And I am sure there are those that by looking out the window at their "rusting" old Corvette get the same silly grin that we do. How can you put a price on that? Well actually my ex-wifes lawyer tried to put a pri...naw, we won't go there.