Broken Wings - June 2010

[My Raven]

02 IY - 8K Miles: VA Salvage Title
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[Chuck]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

And the IY pain continues into June

[bwlewis]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Joe, was this IY wrecked or stolen/stripped?

[My Raven]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Joe, was this IY wrecked or stolen/stripped?

Hi Bruce: Description does not say.

[bwlewis]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Just wondering since the airbags didn't deploy and if stolen, how did they get it?

[MerlotBlue]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Seems to me there could be some potential in buying T-Bird wrecks for parts beyond what is obvious right now.

I look at this yellow car and a few others that have been pictured in this sad section of the forum and it pains me to think of what might be crushed vs saved. A few years down the road so much of what's still in pristine shape on this car may be awfully hard to find.

[birdfan]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

I agree with Steve, and actually have throught the same thing as I see these wrecked cars with plenty of good parts, parts that will be impossible to get in a few years, if they aren't already.
I read a forum for another low production car I have (Reatta) and there is a guy on that forum that has bought a number of them and is an invaluable source of long obsolete parts that are unique to the car.
Of course it needs someone with the resources to purchase the cars, the space to store them and the committment to be in the business for the long haul. It is a rare person that has all those attributes and the passion for the cars to actually do it.

[Leroy]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

These people aren't rare at all, in fact there's one near you. JUNK YARDS Leroy

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[Ediron]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

When I was a young guy I hungout at junk yards and believe me they know what's worth money.

[justjon]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

try finding body parts for a Cadillac Allante .... Those cars are worth much more in parts then as wholes. I think that you folks who own several birds are on the right track..

[MerlotBlue]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

These people aren't rare at all, in fact there's one near you. JUNK YARDS Leroy

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Leroy, that may be true today......especially given the "net-working" today's salvage yards do through-out the country in the effort to supply a hard to locate part.

Years from now though?........Good Luck with that thought.

A few years on from here.....when T-Birds are EXTREMELY rare finds in a wrecking yard it will require someone to have saved the cars after stripping the big dollar parts rather than crushing 'em. All cars have a bunch of what seem like nearly worthless little items. Unless in demand and with the potential to generate enough return to justify the space a well run profitable business won't make space for on a shelf for most of these items, before crushing a stripped car, that are actually pretty unique to that individual model.

Saving wrecked T-Birds for all those little and hard to find items that will not generate any real money today is gonna require more than just the desire to make a profit. It's gonna require someone with a real desire to save as many of these wrecks for the love of saving and restoring the cars in the future.

This explains why all of us who ever restored or own and keep up with the maintenance on a truly old car get so excited and have to go take a look when we see one of those places where someone has a few nearly forgotten wrecks in a field.

[Leroy]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

I know, I've been through it. I bought a 1970 Corvette Roadster several years ago, after I retired, as a project car. I paid 13K for it and spent a couple more thousand on it during the next 4 years and a lot of time. It got to the point where I didn't want to put anymore money in it and it was never going to be what I really wanted. It was a good looking car, but didn't have A/C or a decent radio and drove like a go-kart. I sold it on Ebay for 20k then paid 27k for my Tbird. I've been happy with it so far. I look at it as a Black Ford Roadster with Red and Black leather seats with a V-8, A/C, good radio, and loud pipes. Leroy

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[THX1138]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Find a '57 Thunderbird with a good title with no interior or drivetrain, that has the parts needed for the custom conversion shown at the show in Penn. Move all of the data plates and VIN info from the '57 to the '02. Submit the information and title to DMV for new registration to get plates. Call it a restoration. Restoration experts say that as long as there is a vin plate for the car, they can build an entire car around that VIN plate. Am I going to jail???

[My Raven]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Am I going to jail???

If you were lucky enough for the VIN to slide past the NTHA database which all 52 DMVs have interconnectivity access to and immediate title search then Yes. An abettor of real property deed conquest by aggrivating willfull malicious false pretense is a Class B Felony subject to judicial review under US Code fair sentencing guidelines of up to 15 years in prision; fines up to of $50k excluding purchase amount not to mention civil liability from tort claims ... Just something to think about.

[texasbird]

Re: Broken Wings - June 2010

Brings the question of all the listings that say an aftermarket tribute vehicle (a Shay replica t-bird or Factory Five Shelby design for example) is "titled as" the actual model it is created to resemble. IF a Shay bird is built on a 1980's era Fox body Mustang with a 302, shouldn't it still be titled as such?