Just seen this on a local car club Facebook page

https://jalopnik.com/a-minnesota-far...d-n-1837066153

 

Wow thats quite a collection , something for everyone .

 

Whoa! That is mind boggling. He didn't need any enabling.

 

There's is a lot of very nice vehicles there, too bad the old guy isn't around to benefit from the sale..

 

I doubt that benefit would be his description of the sale . Although I would think whoever the heirs are will be seeing it as such .

 

The guy was a bachelor but could have had kids I guess, someone will benefit greatly

 

I think he might have been my uncle lol

 

You have it made then Kevin.. Save me a Cadillac...lol

 

I bought a 50 Merc from a guy who grew up in Fargo. He knew an old farmer that had a barn full of cars there and he wanted to buy a 49 Merc convertible from the farmer...he had worked on him for over 20 years and finally the guy sold him the 49 with the stipulation that he take all 4 Mercs that he had in the barn. Might have been the same guy, this was about 12 years ago. There has to be something psychological about why a person would want to hoard vehicles...my wife thinks I'm psycho and I only have 5!

 

Many of the cars are 4 door sedans, the bottom of the barrel in the car collecting world. Plus, quite a few are orphans, Studebaker, Rambler, Nash, Packard, Edsel, etc.

Studebaker and Nash/Rambler collectors are cheapskates, so the cars aren't worth very much. Plus it costs about the same to restore a Nash as it does a Ford and the Ford is worth more money.

Looking at the pics, one says "look at the hood ornament on this 1954 Packard 200." It's a 1951 200, there were no 200's after 1952. 200 was replaced by the Clipper in 1953.

 

Nash / Rambler / AMC cars were not high end / dollar cars to start with so why pay a lot for them now LOL
I started with the AMC's gone since 1988 and most of the dealer parts were scrapped / crushed so finding parts is really hard.
Every now and then some NOS parts will show up but most of the time you are looking for parts that are better than what you have or upgrade as they say.
It's the hunt for the parts as they say.
Besides when was the last time you seen an Nash / Rambler / AMC at a car show? Anyone can have / build a Ford or Chevy just open any catalog most of the time.
Dave ----

 

I see Nashes at local shows, one guy has a 1951 Ambassador, another guy I know has several 1955/57's, plus a 1956 Hash.

In the early 1970's, I bought all the obsolete parts of the former Redlands CA Packard dealer. Fishing thru the parts, I noticed some in Nash boxes.

The guy selling the stuff said, "Oh this was originally a Nash dealer." I had no problem selling the parts, the guy with the 1955/57's bought everything for 300 bucks, what I paid for all of it.

I kept what I knew I could sell, the Packard parts. I sold it at car swap meets and in Hemmings.

There was a former Nash dealer in Blythe CA, I stopped there, but the old geezer wouldn't sell anything. Several years later I stopped by again, the building was empty.

I asked around, was told the geezer had died, his grand kids took all the contents of the building to the dump. Oh well...

Did you watch the American Pickers show where the two goofs found a former AMC dealer that not only had some new cars left over, but at least 3 used Nash Healeys?

One of the Healeys had a Caddy V8, they bought that and another. These cars had sat outside for decades, so needed everything.

This former dealer was a mess, with weedy vegetation growing in the showroom, the owner had a desk, but it was hard to see with all the crap growing around it.

 

Looks like more 2 door convertibles than anything indoors and out to me

 

I saw that episode.