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Originally Posted by Drag Star Le Mans
People trying to take stuff for nothing in this situation. Amazing how some dirt bags will take advantage on venerable people? And to be clear he can't live alone anymore so not staying at his house. Appeared someone had tried to break into the shop? Real Douche bags!
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Seen that kind of situation before. If there is no one close enough to him, with the spare time and knowledge to put into protecting, advertising, selling and shipping, and the collection is truly valuable enough ... then a company or organization that specializes in this sort of thing needs to be called in to auction the stuff, or buy it complete.
I've seen collections like that disappear in a couple of years from break-ins, family coming in and "throwing out all the junk", building collapsing, fire, things getting lost, before you know it's gone or worthless. Family will come in to look for "that old dresser" and haul stuff to the dump to get to it out of the way and are not going to listen some guy they don't know when it comes to dear old Dad, Uncle, Grandpa etc. that they haven't visited in five years.
When someone offers $500 for a $1000 part in that situation ... ask yourself, how much are you willing to pay someone to sort, clean, advertise and ship those parts if the owner isn't there to do it? Subtract that from the price.
Scary situation being on the precipice like that .. having to decide between "something" or possibly nothing. Bear in mind if things get bad the whole collection could be one family phone call to the "Garbage Guys Garage Cleaners" from disappearing forever. And very often family isn't inclined to take the advice of their relative's friend, that to them is some old guy they don't know that likes to collect junk too. Non-car people only understand shiny cars they can drive down the street, to them there is no difference between a set of RA heads and two barrel intake, it's all junk.