Neglected '47 Hudson Pick Up Saga

Hudsonrules
Hudsonrules Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
:eek::mad:About twenty miles from my hime sits a long nelected ;47 pick up. It has been in the same spot for over thirty years, slowly sinking into the desert sand/dirt. It is surounded by several British cars that also are in decay. I spoke to the owner a couple times and he insisted he was going to restore the Hudson after he got a couple of his MG's running. That was more than twenty years ago, the vehicles are all in the same place and getting worse. I located the owner at the local bar. That is his second home. Anyway he still insists that the Hudson is going to be restored soon, again after getting an MG running. Hopefully, when the Hudson pick up is rescued, it will not only be good for parts. It has a 308 with twin H and came from Colorado according to plates. Some peoples dreams are via the bottle. To bad, I just do not like seeing a possbly good Hudson go to waste. Arnie in Nevada

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Tell him you will fund his hobby if you sell him the Hudson. There is a good article in Jan. 2010 Hemmings Classic Car that talks specifically at this problem.



    What I have seen this same person will want to sell you the rusted ashes of a stated car for the price of a good runner because he just know it is worth somethin'.



    Does he play poker? Is he bad at it when he is drinking? Just an idea.



    Todd
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I've fought and fought with people to let go of cars they're going to restore "someday". Sooner or later they die and their kids sell them cheap. Your time will come.
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    The gentleman with the steadily-sinking pickup is what Geoff Clark calls a "gunner". He'll steadfastly refuse to sell his car because "I'm GUNNER fix it up someday". And the years pass, and the car steadily decays. And you keep checking back every few months, keep checking back. Then, one day, you phone and the old gent's widow answers. Turns out the guy died two weeks earlier and a day later his wife called the junkyard. "They towed away all them cars and didn't even charge me!" she says, triumphantly.
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    edited November 2013
    Hmmm - Maybe contact the 'widow to be' (i.e., spouse) while the husband is at his second home? Maybe she doesn't even know that someone has an interest in their 'lawn decorations'... :rolleyes:

    You might swing a deal and be gone before he makes it home. :p

    ABSOLUTELY!! Always talk to the wife (the boss) . . . especially if the one who thinks he's the boss won't get off dead center.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited November 2013
    Hmmm - Maybe contact the 'widow to be' (i.e., spouse) while the husband is at his second home? Maybe she doesn't even know that someone has an interest in their 'lawn decorations'... :rolleyes:



    You might swing a deal and be gone before he makes it home. :p[/quote]



    This is the BEST route to a successful acquisition of that truck. Mono el Mono will initiate an ego trip of ... gotta revalidate the reason the vehicle was acquired. Which inevitably results in you not getting to talk sale of the vehicle to you? With the Lady of the house making the decisions... ego is the furthest from her mind in the negotiations. Money talks... one bit of my history prove this out... the targeted lady in this story was my MOM and a college kid was the person who waited for the right opportunity to strike up a conversation.





    Scene: My parents back yard.... three 48 Fords are parked along the back perimeter of the yard. All had been tarpped to keep the keen eyes of parts pickers guessing. But, the trap on a 48 Ford Sportsman convertible had blown off and the car was now visible for all who passed by to see.



    http://www.sportscardigest.com/wp-content/uploads/1948-ford-super-deluxe-sportsman-convertible.jpg



    Enter college kid... Knock at the door, Hello I am inquiring about the possibility of buying the Old car in your yard. Is it for sale? I am a cash buyer. Mom... what would you give for that rusty trash? College kid pulls out his 200 dollars cash. Mom... well for that money you can have all three cars. Me...Owner off in the military. Kid gives up cash and that very day returns with a trailer and removes Ford Sportsman... several days later returns for the other cars. Me... Get $200 dollar check in mail from MOM. I sold those rusty cars for you >>>Love Mom. Never told Mom how rare the 48 Ford Sportsman are not nor did I tell her about the rebuilt full race flathead in one of the sedans.



    Yes... check in with the LADY of the house ... flash cash and if nothing else you will make the owner's evening tough as she thrashes him with her cash for clunkers lecture!



    Cheers :)
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    WildWasp wrote:





    Scene: My parents back yard.... three 48 Fords are parked along the back perimeter of the yard. All had been tarpped to keep the keen eyes of parts pickers guessing. But, the trap on a 48 Ford Sportsman convertible had blown off and the car was now visible for all who passed by to see.



    http://www.sportscardigest.com/wp-content/uploads/1948-ford-super-deluxe-sportsman-convertible.jpg



    Enter college kid... Knock at the door, Hello I am inquiring about the possibility of buying the Old car in your yard. Is it for sale? I am a cash buyer. Mom... what would you give for that rusty trash? College kid pulls out his 200 dollars cash. Mom... well for that money you can have all three cars. Me...Owner off in the military. Kid gives up cash and that very day returns with a trailer and removes Ford Sportsman... several days later returns for the other cars. Me... Get $200 dollar check in mail from MOM. I sold those rusty cars for you >>>Love Mom. Never told Mom how rare the 48 Ford Sportsman are not nor did I tell her about the rebuilt full race flathead in one of the sedans.



    Yes... check in with the LADY of the house ... flash cash and if nothing else you will make the owner's evening tough as she thrashes him with her cash for clunkers lecture!



    Cheers :)



    Ah yes - Mothers, bless 'em all are the greatest boon to ebay sellers flogging "rare" items to the public.



    Son leaves home, as I did, for the military. About 2 weeks later, if that, out went all those "childish" things, as she called them. A pristine comic book collection that included some that are selling for big bucks today; a notebook, along with a box of photos, of the trip I took to California with a buddy along Route 66; a really nice set of WWII aircraft identification cards - picture of the plane on the front, silhouette and info on the back; several of the early Floyd Clymer yearbooks and some other car related books and magazines, including a couple boxes of hot rod magazines. It all went to the dump (we didn't call them landfills back then - dump it was because that's what you did - you "dumped" your stuff.)



    Strange thing - when Mother passed away some 50 years later, in the process of cleaning out her house we found a lot of stuff she'd squirreled away. Guess it's just perspective on her part.



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr

    Memphis, TN
  • esfoder
    esfoder Expert Adviser
    My Granddad used to restore Modle A's. More than once he would run into a fella just like the one you describe. He would try to trade him something else for the part he wanted. Some folks don't want money they want the stuff sittin around. Well give him something else to look at for the next 100 years??



    Dusty
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    esfoder wrote:
    My Granddad used to restore Modle A's. More than once he would run into a fella just like the one you describe. He would try to trade him something else for the part he wanted. Some folks don't want money they want the stuff sittin around. Well give him something else to look at for the next 100 years??

    Dusty

    That's a good point. It always amazes me how many "car guys" are simply collector's. Like collecting stamps, or something. Pull them off of the shelf once in a blue moon, look at 'em and put 'em back. Stamps I can kinda understand, I used to collect them, too. Cars are a different story, to me, anyway.
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