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Although, if you belong to any vintage vehicle FB page or peruse FB Marketplace there are all kinds of ads for total rot bucket cars and trucks without a running engine and no title in the $3000-5000 range. I mean total rot buckets that would have been free or $100 parts trucks ten years ago. No way even with inflation a $100 parts vehicle could have gained in value 2-5000%. I truly doubt most of those buckets sell for near what the sellers are asking.
Very doubtful they sell at all. There are plenty of dreamers on marketplace pricing their stuff at the price point they want to sell it at rather than the price it is likely to sell. They usually eventually mark them down until they sell the item, or pull the ad.
I'm starting to clean out my stash of projects I'll never get to. Without scrapping or going for demo derby. Just got rid of 4 trucks I was going to use to make 1. 19 vehicles to go... Put it in the will that son's will be in charge of disposal. One will be executor so he can sign the titles over.
I would like to get my 54 F100 done asap . Hope I can find all the parts I've bought for it over the years.
By going by the prices people are asking for parts I figure with Ford truck parts and Buick parts I'll be set for retirement. Only problem I see is all of the parts I've been selling lately lower than what most are asking for the same parts aren't selling so gast. I'd be lucky to have enough for breakfast once or twice a week after I retire 😞
I been retired for 3 years…I was forced out when a distracted driver hit me when I was mowing grass on a NJ state highway.
I have a one truck (a 56 flatbed) and a 2017 F350 and a 2022 F350 drw that hauls my truck camper. The 17 is my daily.
Im 62 and wasn’t in the best of health to begin with so I started to thin things out last spring I sold my antique garden tractor collection except for the two on the flatbed but I sold 5 machines all my parts,signage and advertising stuff and manuals. After I got hit I never went to another antique machinery show because I couldn’t push and load the machines around or up on a truck or trailer. I figured dumping 90% of the collection was best while I had some say in its disposal…no regrets !
When I’m gone if my youngest boy want the truck fine if not the title is in the top drawer of my desk…as far as the 42 year old collection of trains in the basement…deal with it folks I enjoy them to much to sell them !
That is a nice display
Last Century, when I lived on LI, a neighbor had a train set up in the basement,, with tracks also going upstairs. Sometimes he would send a train upstairs so his wife could put a beer on one of the cars and send it back down.
I read in a high school alumni publication "In Memorium" section that one of my close high school friends had passed this past January. There was another guy that used to run with us so I did a web search on his name to get his phone number to give him a call to see if he had heard about our mutual friend's passing...the first hit on the search was his obit, he had passed in Oct 2020! There's nothing like having people in your age group passing to bring home the fact that you're mortal.
The wife used to bug me about my storage barn and all the parts I had accumulated over the years but we moved 4 years ago and there is no parts problem anymore. Now there is a 3-car garage and a basement full of projects but I guess that she thinks that that is manageable. She is 8 years younger than me but as I told her, that doesn't mean that she will be the one to be getting rid of MY stuff...she has just as much stuff, it's just in smaller pieces.
My wife is six years younger than me and her lineage is German farm women that refuse to die and run their children’s lives as long as they can. In my family the men croak around 60 or younger. In my wife’s family the women hang around until in their 90s and longer. I figure my wife will be around about forty years after I croak. We have two sons so she’ll need to be around to harass them until they’re in their 60s. I feel for their wives to have to deal with my wife that long. The men who marry these farm women die a few years earlier, I feel, so they can get a few years of peace before their wife join them to nag them for the rest of eternity
I feel for their wives to have to deal with my wife that long. The men who marry these farm women die a few years earlier, I feel, so they can get a few years of peace before their wife join them to nag them for the rest of eternity 
