1951 supersix brougham

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I found a 51 super six brougham that I sold 30 years ago last week. What a shame. This was a 100% rust and dent free car with 15,000 miles on it when I sold it. It was used for a parts car, now missing all glass except rear window, drivers door and lots of other parts, interior is trashed and the top is full of dents. Still looks like a solid car tho. It was a really nice driver. What a shame. It will probably end up scrapped as the fellow who has it now thinks its worth a lot of money.

RL Chilton

tombia wrote:

I found a 51 super six brougham that I sold 30 years ago last week. What a shame. This was a 100% rust and dent free car with 15,000 miles on it when I sold it. It was used for a parts car, now missing all glass except rear window, drivers door and lots of other parts, interior is trashed and the top is full of dents. Still looks like a solid car tho. It was a really nice driver. What a shame. It will probably end up scrapped as the fellow who has it now thinks its worth a lot of money.

Reminds me of the '71 Olds 442 Conv. I bought in the early '80's. Belonged to a Doctor who only drove it to the office on nice days. 24K original miles. When I sold it 10 years later, was in better shape even than when I bought it. Fella I sold it to, gave it to his 16 year-old daughter. Car was scrapped within 3 months. Seems as though some folks only know how to consume.

hudsontech

Well, this is a throw-away society. I'm nearly 71 and I still try to fix it up, reuse it, as my Dad taught me.



Of course, most of the stuff today is designed to be thrown away - you can't take it apart and fix it and it's made of plastic anyway. If it breaks, buy a new one, is the mantra today.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

MikeWA

RL Chilton wrote:

Reminds me of the '71 Olds 442 Conv. I bought in the early '80's. Belonged to a Doctor who only drove it to the office on nice days. 24K original miles. When I sold it 10 years later, was in better shape even than when I bought it. Fella I sold it to, gave it to his 16 year-old daughter. Car was scrapped within 3 months. Seems as though some folks only know how to consume.

And there's the "ones that got away"- Believe I was about 17 (1965) when I saw a beautiful black '50 Ford coupe in the church parking lot. Owned by a little old lady. But I figured she would get annoyed if I asked if it was for sale (and if she'd been driving it that long, why would she change?). Well, she sold it to the village knot-head the next week (for $125, as I recall)- he totalled it within a month.

RL Chilton

Mike-



Betcha' don't hesitate asking these days, huh?:)

ESSX28-1

Mike (WA) wrote:

And there's the "ones that got away"- Believe I was about 17 (1965) when I saw a beautiful black '50 Ford coupe in the church parking lot. Owned by a little old lady. But I figured she would get annoyed if I asked if it was for sale (and if she'd been driving it that long, why would she change?). Well, she sold it to the village knot-head the next week (for $125, as I recall)- he totalled it within a month.

August '65 was when I found my '28 Essex Coupe. Paid $16.00 for it & rounded it up to $20.00 to include a 28 Essex 4 door for parts. Still got the Coupe - best investment I ever made!! It was a great buy even then.:):)

RL Chilton

Dave Y.-



That's great to hear. Seems like every story like yours I hear, there's 30 or 40 about the "ones that got away". Heck, I've got a dozen "got away" ones myself.

bent metal

hudsontech wrote:

Well, this is a throw-away society. I'm nearly 71 and I still try to fix it up, reuse it, as my Dad taught me.



Of course, most of the stuff today is designed to be thrown away - you can't take it apart and fix it and it's made of plastic anyway. If it breaks, buy a new one, is the mantra today.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

I agree one hundred percent! My Dad also taught me, as his Dad did (maybe because Grandpa grew up in the depression) to reuse it, or fix it. Kids today would rather throw something out and buy a new one. ....But with this economy they are starting to learn. Just because something is cheaper doesn't make it a better deal.



Okay, I'm starting to get fired up now. I'll stop and get off of my soap box.

Jon B

It was winter of 1967 and I was a college senior, home for Christmas break. There, sitting at a local service station, sat a '50 Studebaker coupe with no license plates, in perfect, low-mileage condition. The station operator said the car's owner had blown the engine, and sold it to him. He was going to overhaul it and sell it, so I gave him my name and contact information, and waited.



Summer, 1968. No word from the gas station. Was back home after graduating, so returned to the station. The owner said he'd thrown in the towel and junked the car.



Happy ending. A month later I bought the car from the junkyard for $40, got an overhauled engine from a local rebuilder for $200, and was soon contentedly driving around town in my "new" car.