"Car driven by its owner for 83 years..."

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TokyoP6B

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I liked the story about Miller the eccentric car collector. It is perhaps a sad reflection that I don't find his behaviour very particularly strange. What's wrong with having a farmyard laden with old cars and lost of spare parts? Initially, I thought that I would perhaps draw the line at keeping $1 million in gold bullion in the woodpile. Mind you with the state of the economies and the banks these days, perhaps the old guy had the right idea?
 
JVY said:
I liked the story about Miller the eccentric car collector. It is perhaps a sad reflection that I don't find his behaviour very particularly strange. What's wrong with having a farmyard laden with old cars and lost of spare parts? Initially, I thought that I would perhaps draw the line at keeping $1 million in gold bullion in the woodpile. Mind you with the state of the economies and the banks these days, perhaps the old guy had the right idea?
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I´ll try and be honest: I cannot get my mind around it. None of it.
I cannot find any attitude toward stuff like that. Leave alone a clear one... .

The story of the yard in Switzerland (?) that was made into the book "Sleeping Beautys" (?, Rolf, help me on this one, please !), very similar to Millers story in result, made me sad and happy in a very rapid cycle. And there seem to be so many of those. One German classic car mag has pics every week (?) of sleeping cars, and some are in Western Europe. I would love to save all of them, but then, they are something completely different when they are where they are now.

That "patina" is definitely "coming" in Germany is a novelty, and many see their cars and tractors and bikes and other vintage gear transporting history when having marks. Even an "old restauration" tells a story about its time... .

I definitely did WAY too much on my Heinkel, although not visible from the outside. I´d do with a fracture of time and work, focus on preserving status quo NOW.

I could go on and on about this - all fueled by insecurity on the subject :?
 
The story of the yard in Switzerland (?) that was made into the book "Sleeping Beautys"
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The Kaufdorf yard? YouTube has lots of clips from that yard

Here's a Plymouth Fury that someone has saved to restore from there: this is "one of about 60 left" including restored + original examples; what a challenge fixing this one up would be ( ! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSmd1BxeCI

The maddest, most obsessive car collection was/is the one assembled by the Schlumpf brothers; now nationalised in France, but collected over decades with the utmost secrecy These guys had 3 Bugatti Royales, and not dozens,but hundreds of other makes and models

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHngnh_-3Sc

GW
 
TokyoP6B said:
The story of the yard in Switzerland (?) that was made into the book "Sleeping Beautys"
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The Kaudorf yard? YouTube has lots of clips from that yard

Here's a Plymouth Fury that someone has saved to restore from there: this is "one of about 60 left" including restored + original examples; what a challenge fixing this one up would be ( ! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSmd1BxeCI

GW
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That´s the one, thank you !
Never thought there might be clips - Thanks again !

Strange.

Name some one-off or nearly one-off or VERY rare car. Most of them must, at some point, have been restored almost from scratch.
Or see the Motorbikes that did (NOT) survive the fire in the National Motorcycle Museum. I read about a Vincent "restored" from an engine case, more or less :shock: .

A challenge, sure. But what remains ? Is THAT the/an original bike ?
Maybe they should have left it as is ... :wink: .
 
Ah, Vincent V-Twins don't really count; Vincent went broke but promised to supply parts to owners regardless, that and a very strong owners club with Canadian, USA + UK support have long been able to supply anything for a V-Twin Vincent

With the inevitable result that people with enough money have built bikes that never went down a Vincent assembly line, but with parts that would interchange + be perfectly correct for a 1940's/50's bike

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/19/872/Motorcycle-Article/2007-Vincent-Black-Shadow-First-Ride.aspx

BMW also support parts for their bikes back to around 1949, so you could still build a 1950 Beemer out of the parts book

For rarity; this would have to be the rarest vehicle I've ever seen that wasn't "One-off" and it was in that Swiss yard...

Sure hope someone got it to restore


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBfxLrVmgFE&feature=related

Here's what one looked like in 1969: ( YouTube comments suggest they're one-and-the-same vehicle! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4jMk30aktw

GW
 
... early VW are going throug every roof.

Saw a wreck of a seven window (?) Samba here in Germany - best bits were the rails and chrome trim - it took about 8000 € ... .
Prices of TL and 1600 are rising.

AND:

in Germany YOU CAN NOT WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOU TUBE BECAUSE OF LEGAL RIGHTS STUFF !

I HATE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :twisted:
 
Rudiger Wicke said:
Keep cool :LOL:

Rudiger
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Danke Rüdiger

Entschuldigung :oops:
"Haltung" !!!! 8)

But this is SO stupid. Just because "GEMA" wants their share and .. OH, never mind. Pity though we can not "synchronize" to the UK when somebody send such interesting matter....

Besides:
I can increasingly NOT WAIT to go over and see and feel Jimmy and look under his bonnet and fiddle with knobs and - ooohhhhhhhhhhhh BOY :LOL: :!: :!: :!:
Just edgy !!
 
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