Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 14:26:27 -0700
Reply-To: Kenneth O'Connor <kenneth.oconnor@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Kenneth O'Connor <kenneth.oconnor@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday distraction (NVC)
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Regarding that Porsche comment, I worked at a Porsche restoration place
when I was in college in the late 90s. The owner had got his hands on a
rusted out original Speedster body. The side channels were completely
detached (rusted through) so the car was physically in two pieces and there
was no engine or suspension. He sold it for $10k and then re-sold it to
another higher bidder for $12.5k! The first guy was pissed and would call
the shop daily and yell at me. I never did get to see the finished product.
But, I did get to to work on a lot of cool cars! I guess my point is that
with the market for even the Coupes, someone might actually fix that!
Ken O.
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:09 PM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Thanks,
>
> I’m replying on list as the description is great.
>
> It reminds me of the far back field of my grandfathers farm. Among the
> trucks and cars returning to the earth is a 1920 something truck that my
> dad used. The story I heard is to keep it running they filled one bad
> cylinder with cement and ran it on three cylinders for quite some time.
>
> And, there is a 1957 Cadillac that could have been restored until the kids
> shot it full of holes.
>
>
> But, this collection is a bit bigger!
>
> I must admit I love poking around places like that.
> Eric Caron
>
> > On May 15, 2020, at 3:33 PM, Bruno Walser <bruno.walser@multavista.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Many of these pictures of old abandoned cars seem to be from a car
> graveyard in Switzerland.
> >
> > Here is a description I found on Wikipedia:
> >
> > Around 1933, a Kaufdorf resident, Walter Messerli, began collecting cars
> for parts. Once usable parts were stripped from vehicles, he stored the
> empty shells on his land and allowed the forest to grow around them. By the
> 1970s, when he retired, there were several hundred rusting automobile
> bodies on his lot. His son took over the yard and continued adding
> vehicles.[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufdorf#cite_note-4>
> Eventually, about 1000 automobiles and 400 motorcycles occupied the yard.
> In 2008 a Swiss court ordered the vehicles removed and by 2009 most had
> been auctioned off, sold or removed and scrapped.[5] <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufdorf#cite_note-5>
> >
> > Bruno
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:55 PM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net
> <mailto:ericcaron96@comcast.net>> wrote:
> > A brief description?
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > > On May 15, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM
> <mailto:stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
> > >
> > > There is something relaxing about these photos of resting relics:
> > > https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52632396 <
> https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-52632396>
>
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