I'm thinking of selling my '63 convertible.
I had a binder full on invoices, the original ownership and some other miscellaneous documents that a future buyer would be interested in.
I've turned our house and garage upside down looking for it. I'm usually very organized but for the life of me I can't find that binder.!
I keep everything like this in my office.
I attend maybe half of a dozen cruise nights per year. The only thing I can think of is the possibility I left it in the car and someone stole it.

It would be of no use to anyone.
I know a buyer would like to have these documents. It really ticks me off that someone could have stolen it.
Just venting.........

 

really doubt anyone would steal it. check your folding chairs, in the trunk. it should be somewhere. not like it's an ipod.

 

I don't know your situation or if your a grandpa or not, but maybe one of these young-un's used the folder for homework and took all that "old stuff' out...

Daughter
Granddaughter
Son
Grandson

 

it's a thought but we are empty-nesters with no grandchildren yet

 

People will steal absolutely anything.

I bring some docs with my car for show... all copies of the originals that I can afford to have walk away.

 

Yeah I'm asking myself why the OP would carry original documents around with him...
Mine are in the home safe...

 

Just tell your buyer you have the docs, but have misplaced them. Sell the 63 without them and promise to make your buyer's day sometime in the future. You will find the binder when you are not looking for it, in a place you will say "what in hell was I thinking when I put this there??!! "
Or, don't give the binder another thought. Very likely your buyer will want to throw your original chassis and running gear away and resto mod the car so "he can have the best of both worlds..."
he couldn't care less about that old paper anyway.

 

I didn't say I had them in the car. I think I said that might have been a possibility. I'd never carry something so valuable on purpose.

 

Unfortunately, I'm in complete agreement. The only time I've taken my documents out of the house has been when presenting a car for the MBCA Silver Star Preservation Award. Turns out even that was a wasted effort as the "judges" were in such a hurry to get finished that they had no interest in supporting materials and the award itself was pro forma.

 

Having had one of the most documented mid years in the country, I made copies of all the documents and put them in a book for display at car shows (it only made it to two shows prior to being offered an insane amount of money which I couldn't refuse). I've been showing cars for 40+ years and have never had anyone mess with the cars or steal anything but there's always that possibility. Hopefully your stuff was simply misplaced and you'll find it before you sell.

 

seat(s)? Some of those early 63's had a tool storage tray moulded under the seats. I.e. more room. Good luck in your search. I am to the point in my life where, at times I can not remember where I put stuff last week.

 

I can't blame you for being upset for misplacing the docs. I lost a car title once, and I was PO'd - and that could be replaced.

Keep searching, it's always in the last place you look.

 

To my surprise, there are folks who have intense interest in the documents themselves. I discovered this at a regional NCRS judging when my binder of original docs attracted a fellow with expensive camera who wanted photos of them but not the car! Can't imagine an ulterior motive since none had my address or personal info. He said he loved original documentation.

 

No possible motive?
Maybe to reproduce your documents with a few minor tweeks to numbers, names and dates to miraculously "find" the missing docs to his car(s)?
They can do amazing things with computers and copiers today.

 

Hope you find it, that has to be frustrating!

 

Try to remember the last time you looked at your docs and where that was. That might lead you in the right direction.

Verne

 

Thanks for the support gentlemen. Still on the hunt for the binder. I checked under the seats in the small storage area. The last time I had the binder out was last spring. I had a guy here looking at some Corvette parts I was selling. Not sure where it went after that. It sucks getting old.

 

Check the bottom drawers of your tool box, shelves, drawers in cabinets in garage, under rags, blankets, cleaning towels....its gotta be there somewhere...

OH did you ask the wife...they seem to know where everything is...

 

If you're serious about finding the documents, get hold of a professional dowser. Here's the American Society of Dowsers' specialty list.
http://dowsers.org/contact-us-2/dows...ialtylist.html
Click on the Lost Objects link in the lower left to get in touch with dowsers who can locate lost objects.

Dowsers locate anything, not just groundwater. They can also locate objects remotely, "over the phone" as it were.

Yes, this is an outside-the-box idea, but it works. No, I'm not a gullible New Age person who's easily swayed by flimflammery; I have a PhD in geology and have a distinguished record of accomplishments. So, I know there are things that we all know are real but can't be explained. Such as gravity.

Here's the definitive book, as far as I'm concerned, about the known but currently unexplained powers of the human mind, including dowsing. The author, a professor of psychiatry at UC Berkeley, employed a dowser in Arkansas to find a valuable lost object in Oakland, Calif. The dowser did so over the phone, telling her exactly which house in Oakland contained the lost/stolen object. After that experience, the author made inexplicable powers of the human mind into a research project and wrote her book.


Dowsing is so well established, if unexplained, that the regional utility, PG&E, employs dowsers to find ancient buried pipelines which are not marked on any map. Anyone can learn to do it; I took a weekend class in dowsing and can find lost keys, fobs, glasses with high accuracy. The highpoint of my amateur career was finding the missing trim piece to a friend's C1; the trim piece was 20 miles away from me. So, if you call one of those dowsers on the web site I gave you, you'll very likely find your missing documents. Worth a phone call, no?

Lou

 

Look in the area where those parts are, or along your path away from them.
Did you put parts in a box that the buyer carried away?