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It is great to feel this way for a car that is sitting out in the weather rotting.. wanting to save it is very noble... but folks the reality here is that it has been rotting away for years
and most people should run as fast as they can from these cars..
There's a Corvette "salvage yard" near where I live. The owner has about 20-25 C-3s in various states of disrepair, sitting outside year round. It's sad, but most of them have a fair amount of collision damage and/or have been pretty well picked over...
If that makes you sick then so should this. A buddy of mine found that during the resent "Cash for Clunkers" program, atotal of 131 Corvette C4's were destroyed 98 coupes and 33 convertibles. I think C3's were to old to qualify or it would have been a whole lot worse
Get those windows up, and a car cover on it! That would be the first step! Stop the silent enemy from raping it!
The owner may be dying to get rid of it, or he would rather let it rot while someone else is willing to take care of it!
The latter is usually the case.
Some people love to have people ask them to buy the car so they can tell them no. We have a local guy that has probably thirty or forty old Fords including 55-57 T-birds, 55-56 Crown victorias, and 55-56 Ford convertibles and hardtops sitting in his yard covered with black construction plastic pulled all the way down to the grass, which creates a greenhouse . These cars have been sitting like this for over 30 years and on most of the cars the plastic is shreaded. Everyone has tried to buy these cars and the guy just loves to laugh in there face and tell them that they aren't for sale. Many of these cars were nice when he bought them but no doubt destroyed now. It's sad but he owns the cars and has the legal right to do what he wants with the cars. All we can do is say R.I.P.
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