Rotting classics......Like with parents... it should be a crime to be neglectful

[Mopartist]

Does it bug you to see "classics" rotting? Awhile back; I posted a couple of pics of a white 70 Challenger RT that was just sitting in a field with 4 cragar wheels on it and rotting tires, I mailed the guy my e-mail address, home address, and phone # telling him I was interested and asked if he would be interested in selling it to me. No reply. It's an old singlewide trailer that the guy lives in. Anyways; it really bugs me to drive past now and see it covered in snow. What the hell is the matter with people like this? Too drunk to realize they have a gold mine; and too lazy to do anything about it; and too selfish to take a chance oin making some money on it because SOMEDAY they are gonna get up off there no good arse and buy AT LEAST a 15 dollar tarp to keep the weather off of it?!?!?!?!?!? Gawd, sometimes I feel like I'd like to knock some sense into them! But I won't. I'll just keep driving past year after year watching the cancer consume it. What a waste!

[Rate]

That's the problem though, they DO know that they're sitting on a gold mine, and they honestly think that they're going to fix it up one day and it's their ticket to riches. But then they don't have the money to start on it and/or are too lazy to do the work.

It kills me too, every time I see one.

[Ed]

Ever try a fist full of cash?  I feel good today, hauled out a project that's been sitting for a year or 2. 

[DartKnight]

Ever try a fist full of cash?  I feel good today, hauled out a project that's been sitting for a year or 2. 

I agree with this one. The guy might just be too lazy to bother picking up the phone or mailing anything. I've seen people who have posted numerous ads to sell things, and then not even bother answering their phone or email; however, you show up on their doorstep with some green and everything changes. 

[440Ken]

Maybe if you took a bottle of vodka and two glasses and knocked on his door, and said lets talk about that car. If not vodka maybe a nice red wine.

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[Yellow]

There's a Hemi orange AAR Cuda rotting in a yard about 8 miles from me, i have watched that car for over 15 years, guy's gonna fix it up for his son, 

[b569rr]

There's a Hemi orange AAR Cuda rotting in a yard about 8 miles from me, i have watched that car for over 15 years, guy's gonna fix it up for his son, 

2 miles up the road from me there is a T/A Challenger rotting away. The owner says he's going to restore it.    It's been sitting for almost 9 years now. I think the tarp blew off a few years back and it is still in the yard next to the car. He seems like a very motivated individual. 

Tom

[dangerdawg]

that's killing me.

[Jim_Lusk]

I learned a long time ago that you can't convince these types that they'll never get to the car. I tried to buy a 64 Fury convertible in 1977. The guy said he was going to fix it up. I forgot about the car until I saw it at his house (it had been at an OLD service station before). A friend of mine tried to buy it then (1984). Again the guy said he was going to fix it up. Within six months it wound up in a wrecking yard. The good news is that it was sold whole by the yard. Some of them eventually wise up, but don't count on it until it's too late to save the car.

[eldubb440]

ive been trying to buy a local T/A chally for the past 4 years........owned by an older guy and his son. the old dude had enough sense to dump oil into the quarter panels and keeps it somewhat dry.  his son has since gotten married and has had a kid or two... being that half of all marriages fail, i figure its just a matter of time.....i do a drive by monthly, and stop in every six months or so.....since i do all my own resto work, rotters are my game. 

[DustMan]

I have driven by this guys yard fifty-thousand times.

He has a 68 Dart and a 68 Barracuda Fast Back sitting next to each other in his field, both of them matching cream paint but rotting under the sky and covered in pollen and with grass growing up to the doors.

Likely scenario.

I would pull into his yard in my Duster with an interest of purchasing one or the other, or both, and the old Koger would give me sh*t about my car?! When his are rotting?! He is an a-hole and he had no intention of restoring or selling them. He simply, "Didn't know what he wanted to do with them...". I got tired of trying and I drove by a month ago and they had dissapeared...

[magnumdart]

Cruising down the street one day I looked up a drive and there in the backyard was a black '73 'Cuda 340.  I slammed one the skids and asked the owner to sell it to me.  He said he was going to fix it up and to be fair he had put a new radiator in it and the engine was all new zero miles.  It was a numbers matching 4-speed car with 60K.  Twelve years of sitting under a tree and he finally lands up giving it to me.  I already have a Dart project and a Charger project on-going so I sell the car to my neighbor.  All the floors are gone, trunk gone, frame rails pretty bad, quarters gone,  door posts are cracking thru at the bottom.  Now it is on a rotissirie(?), almost ready for paint.  Stay on these idiots and one day you might get lucky enough to resuce one of these classics.  After all, they're holding on to these things for the same reason we do, THEY LOVE THEM!

[xmattxxx]

 good point magnum,some of these people arent idiots really,they are people who love mopar and have fallen on hard times financially...they figure "someday"they will have the money to do the car justice and in the meantime dont even look at it anymore.A few of these people also have attachment to the car through someones death or whatever too.....its just too bad they let them melt into the ground.I think cash offers are always best,and if all else fails "heres my number,please call me if you change your mind".....and ya a few of them are just idiots

[Mean 318]

I found my car sitting in a field! The guy bought the car for $500.00 and then parked it in his field after the trans started to go.... Well when he got it only had surface rust, by the time I got to it needed quarters, deck pan, trunk, and a lower fender! The only thing that kept the frame and the floors from rusting was all of the oil and trany fluid that had coated them! I offered him $1200.00 and he wouldn’t take it, he said hell no. I asked him if he ever planed on fixing it or posting it up for sale, he said no it will just sit. So I couldn’t stand to see it rust into the ground so I coughed up $1500.00. Some people just don’t care!

[jamesdart]

ther eis a green with green vinyl top and green interior 69 dart gts 340 auto with a/c sitting about a mile fro mmy house. been sitting at least 20 years. original owner. i talked to the guy. he wanted to see my cars but  will not part with his. he says the same crap. going to restore it.  just lets it sit there. the day i talked to him i looked in it, it had 3-4" of water inside. when i told him ,he didnt believe me. still hasnt done anything with it.  there is a 68  coronet r/t big block 4 speed sitting burried close by too. also a 383 4 spd 70 super bee. both of those are in pretty good shape.  of coarse there are a few darts around, but nothing special. i was crazy for that 69 gts for years. checked it out once about 8 years ago it was still pretty nice. now its kind of shabby. too damn bad.

[Yellow]

Well we all know some of them just  "get off" on the the old,"I got something you want" mindset, they actually enjoy people coming by and pestering them about buying the car, i guess it takes all kinds to make the ol' world go round.

[Rate]

Sometimes though, you do come across good ones. When I go back home for Christmas, I'll take some pictures of one guys yard near me. It looks like your standard "lets cars rot to the ground" place, with a bunch of rusty Mopars sitting next to a singlewide trailer with a shoddy garage, but every once in awhile you'll cruise by there and see a freshly painted Mopar sitting out in front of his house. I always tell myself to stop and talk to the guy, but I've never actually done it.

I've seen these cars in his yard completely restored at some point (I can only give basic models, never got close enough to tell R/T, GT, etc.): '71 Challenger, '72 Challenger, '69 Charger, '67 Barracuda, and '69 GTX. None of the cars hang around very long, my guess is he's either doing work to them for other people, or sells them.

Cars that were sitting out rusting last time I passed by: 3 Challengers (can't tell the years, 2 of them look like they were used as parts cars and are past the point of no return), 2 "big-bumper" Darts (one looks like it's still in decent condition from afar, one is still at least restorable), and 2 Coronets (at least I think they are, they're both a bit far back in the bushes and are hard to see).

[fasttcars]

ok.....................................................................................i know of ......................................................a very rare ..........this is gona make everyone...kringe...i know of a 67 hemi gtx..........and to make it .................................................worst a convertible 4-speed.. 17 total convertible's ...  1 0f 7 4-speed's......................siting in the back of a guys yard for like 20 years untarped.etc.......the guy is a biker,,,drug dealer that you can't even approch....allthogh it's been a couple years since i've been around the area.....??

[dangerdawg]

got my dart from one of those people, it took four yrs. after it got smashed up, i was becoming one of those people, thnx to finding  and all of you i'm coming out of it. don't want to be one of them.