Ebay and expand the pool of buyers to Japan. On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:53 PM Clay Monroe via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> BaT that and hope some fools on the west coast find it. Big dollar sale > for sure. Craig McCaw (cellular One) has a racing shop that restores > vintage race cars. There is a really nice red 510 in the garage. > > The vintage asian cars are huge out there. I was attending an MBCA event > in North Vancouver BC a few years back. Got stuck in the traffic near the > venue by a few hundred dathonyotas on their way to their gathering. > Traffic at the border at the end of the day was a large percentage of the > same folks > > clay > > > On Dec 30, 2019, at 11:15 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > I have this 72 Datsun 510 wagon that belonged to my granddaddy. When he > got sick like 35 years ago my dad put it in the barn where it sat until > maybe 15 yr ago when I pulled it out and stuck it in a storage bin in KY. > It is basically all original, in good shape except for a few small body > dings and what the mice and time have done to it. So a fairly unmolested > barn "find." A coupla weeks ago I got thinking about it, and found some FB > groups for 510s. Lot of guys with cool cars, some mostly original, some > modified with newer engines, etc. but still OK. Fun to see the old cars > being loved. > > > > I just saw this POS project car listed, a sedan, the guy wants $2800 > for. So now I'm thinking this thing I have, even just cleaned up a bit not > even running might be a $5k car, and if got back running who knows? Not > that I want to sell it, but I think that is pretty crazy. My granddaddy, > who was a very wise man for being mostly unschooled (at "school" anyway) > would probably say something about fools and money and such and just laugh > and laugh. He probably paid maybe $800 for it back then, if that much, > used, a few years old, and drove it for maybe 10 years. > > > > -- > > --FT > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
