Anybody have any suggestions?--A life's project!

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[skills@eurocarsplus]

[TDCTDI]

The biggest thing to consider about this "collection" is do ALL of the cars have titles? If so, who's name are they in? The deceased father or maybe even deceased previous owners? If not, this further devalues the collection.
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[Volks Wagen]

kidvintage is imo interested in purchasing the whole lot, but for pennies on the dollar. A vulture circling imo. Be a man about it, go look and make an offer to the man straight in the eye and stop talking the stuff down from sunny Cal full of bugs until you've done that. It's a tough enough situation for the family as it stands without folks talking down the dads collection. Ignoranus.

[kidvintage]

[Mos6502]

How about let's just not be stupid.

In any event, I doubt the seller is going to listen to anybody here if they're already advertising the lot for sale.

It may be wishful thinking on their part for the collection to go to somebody who will restore all the cars (almost certainly, such a person does not exist). It may not be a bad thing if the collection goes to a parts yard (I mean, most of it is parts anyway, and even an obsessed restorer would get bored cataloging and selling all those parts). Just so long as it doesn't fall into the hands of a scrap merchant or hermit hoarder and end up destroyed.

I still think selling it in one big lot is ridiculous, but I'm looking at the situation from the perspective of somebody who wants to balance getting the cars to the right buyers, getting the fair amount they're worth - and who has good enough health to spend the time doing so. Their situation is appreciably different.

[ach60]

My Prayers for the OP

What I see is 19 or 20 Bugs in a hut, let’s say I was in the business of buyn&selln.
I offer the guy $64,000, I transport, store and sell all this inventory in 6 months
My breakeven point is $168,500(I know this because I sat down and wasted 2 hours running the numbers)
"I'm not paying to clean up your mess"
Is what a buddy told a guy when we were looking at buying his "collection"
It seemed like an asshole statement at the time, but it turns out to be a cold hard fact.
Even if I offered the guy $1000 each and he accepted, my breakeven point would still be $128,000.
So in all honesty this collection will go for cents on the dollar, at auction compared to the worth of the collection.
But it is the most effective means of cleaning up someone's estate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/business/ray-lambrecht-collector-of-chevrolets-is-dead-at-96.html
Yvette VanDerBrink of VanDerBrink Auctions House total changed the landscape for disposing of peoples hords.
Prior to this business model, a local farm or estate auction houses,for the last 100 years, would come in to your estate,
spend a day or two to inventory, advertise locally, and then sell your stuff.
Anything left behind of scrap value was sold as scrap, and the rest hauled to a landfill.
VanDerBrink Auctions changed the marketing and the increased the scope of the venue to include On-Line Bidding, and 21st Century Marketing.
Call up an Auction House that deals in estates, and have them liquidate the collection this Summer/Fall.
All that being said, If I’d seen this post in 2004, I would have advised the OP to take all the cars out of the hut.
Wash, clean out the interior, and photograph the car, being careful to get 6 good shots, 4 exterior, 2 interior, well focused, good lighting.
Put all the cars back in the hut, lock it up tight.
Set up an advertisement for each car in it’s own ad, set a reasonable price for each car, photos and what you know if anything about the car.
Once a week, post 2 or 3 cars only, next week two drop the price on the car(s) that didn’t sell, repeat until they sell.
Sell the same 2 or 3 cars only using the same information, but using another site, like auto trader, or craigslist.
Let the buyers that show up, walk through your parts too, and sell what you can, the stuff has no value to you, so don’t get greedy on price.
Overtime each of these cars would have sold, or have been recycled, the same for the parts,
but 14 years later you wouldn’t still be trying to figure out what to do about Dad’s stuff.
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[Manfred58sc]

X2 on the above post.
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[iowegian]

I have been to a VanderBrink auction, and she got a large crowd and good money at that one, but this sale might not be big enough for her these days.

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[vwracerdave]

Read the webpage https://www.lukesbugs.com/. It clearly states the surviving family has no interest in VW's and wants to sell the entire collection of cars & parts as one single sale to one buyer. The family has no interest in selling anything sereratly and simply want the entire collection gone.
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[EverettB]

I'm going to go with the most positive outcome possible and say he is going to live and keep all the cars.
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[TDCTDI]

Hopefully they received an acceptable offer, but they probably got tired of the hundreds if not thousands of offers of "$500 for this one" or "I need this part" or "I'll give you $10,000 for all of it".
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

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