Re: Saving Cars, Packards and other collector vehicles

Posted by Gene On 2012/4/22 9:36:57

I think that we, as the custodians and guardians of these classics, have a duty and responsibility to go to the yards near our individual locations and try to establish a relationship with he owners. We could explain that our purpose is to preserve these cars for future generations and negotiate for them to notify us of any new classic cars brought in so that we can remove those items that are most likely to be needed in the future; those items that cannot be easily fabricated in the home shop.
After all, most of the scrap value is in the sheet metal and not in the trim, brackets, interior moldings, radios, knobs, etc., that can often be fairly easily removed. The owner will still keep their profits from the bulk of the car undiminished plus earn a little extra cash for the little things we take off; win0win situation. Those things we take off we can offer to the appropriate group for enough to cover our time and expenses to remove them; again a win-win situation.

I think I'll start doing this myself here in my area. But, I will say that, as someone who spent 20 years in sales before becoming a teacher that we need to first establish a friendly relationship so that the yard owner will understand why we would appreciate their co-operation.

Gene