<VV> Value - Finished Cars

[Ramon Rodriguez III]

Back in 2003 I entered my bright red 1968 Corvette Convertible (I fixed it
up from really raggedy to fairly nice) in a very small very local little
"Peoples Choice" car show.. maybe 20 cars total.  I wound up fourth and thus
no trophy, second place went to a BRAND NEW bright red Corvette that was
parked right next to me, and notably a little bit brighter red color than
mine.

I was a bit bothered by that as you can imagine.  I do the opportunity to
look at high end and special edition "NEW" Camaro's, Mustangs, etc., but I
don't think a brand new car should be competing even in a peoples choice
show against antiques that people have been battling wear and rust on for
who knows how long.

Ray R.
Lake Ariel, PA
FOUR vairs, none for sale!



On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Bill Hubbell <whubbell at verizon.net> wrote:

> On the other hand there will always be those people who buy a brand new car
> and immediately enter it in a car show (I'm thinking of Corvette owners in
> particular).
>
> Bill Hubbell
>
> On Jul 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Chris & Bill Strickland <
> lechevrier at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >> ... there is also a group of people who don't want a finished car
> because it's not to their taste.
> >>
> >
> > The other issue is that a finished car will always be "someone else's
> > car" and not "your" car, a product of your own labors and skill (or lack
> > thereof), and thus a source of pride to yourself (if no one else).  As
> > an example, the Canadian car that was recently featured in the
> > Communiqué -- he'll never be able to get what he has into it in labor
> > out of selling it -- he did what was a "hopeless" project to start with
> > because he wanted to and knew he had the skills necessary to do it --
> > it's just an awesome ride built precisely to his own personal taste over
> > what was it, five years?  IF he sold it, it would deservedly always be
> > "Sproeg's Car" (apologies for any spelling error).
> >
> > Bill Strickland
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-- 
Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez
Lake Ariel, PA