How's this for a "cars in barns" story?

[Charger_Fan]

 
http://coolcatcorp.com/millerauction/MillerAuction.html

[CB]

Imagine the same story but with all gen Chargers 

[RD]

that is an awesome story!  thanks for sharing.

[Telvis]

Sounds like a crazy old coot. Can you say paranoid? I wonder if they had any heirs.

[andy74]

holy shit! why cant i find stuff like that instaed of just old junk?

[89MOPAR]

 Stutz Bearcat - that car was the cream of the crop back in its day. One of the fastest production cars made back then !

[jaak]

Very Intresting story, thanks Charger Fan for sharing it

Jason

[69_500]

Well I can say for certain that in another 25 years or so you will see a collection like that for Chargers or at least old Mopars come up more than a few times. There are just too many people who are collecting and hoarding parts for these old cars for someone to possibly know all of them.

[BigBlackDodge]

I can't help but wonder sometimes whats in those old barns, any old barns,  you see along the highway.


BBD

[Charger_Fan]

I can't help but wonder sometimes whats in those old barns, any old barns,  you see along the highway.

I find myself wondering the same thing quite often. I wish there were an easy way to peek inside without possibly getting shot.

Well I can say for certain that in another 25 years or so you will see a collection like that for Chargers or at least old Mopars come up more than a few times. There are just too many people who are collecting and hoarding parts for these old cars for someone to possibly know all of them.

[squeakfinder]

I guess we should be thankful for the occasional nutball's.

[PocketThunder]

So these guys were just like the rest of us .... a bunch of projects cars laying around and none of them on the road!   

[69charger2002]

that is crazy.. wonder what his goal was though? why collect them if you can't enjoy them or sell them? heck with those shoddy barns.. he couldn't really even go out there and look at them to enjoy them very well
trav

[Brock Samson]

reused nails?!..
drove old VWs!?..
I Guess he kind'a lost touch, and not just automotivley,..

but here's the part that got me..

"Occasionally he would sell some parts to raise cash. Rather than dipping
into his cache, he would labor for hours making copies of the original
parts by hand." 

[Crazy Larry]

that is crazy.. wonder what his goal was though? why collect them if you can't enjoy them or sell them? heck with those shoddy barns.. he couldn't really even go out there and look at them to enjoy them very well
trav

If he was anything like my 94 year old grandfather - logic would not be first priority in his daily activities. 

[squeakfinder]

I didn't live through the depression. But my grandparents did. After they were gone we had to clean out two buildings on there property. These were small two bedroom houses. I think we had to have 7 twenty yard dumpsters/dropboxes brought in to clean the place up. Most of it really was junk. Old clothes, newspapers, tin cans, milk jugs. Why keep all this crap? Its just something most of us can't relate to when you go through a 7 year drought in the midwest. Or having to thank your boss every day for your crummy job that paid a dollar a day. Its 50 years of "Save it somebody might need it some day"mentality. I'm betting there was a lot of crap on that property that got thrown out.

[4402tuff4u]

Cool story CF! Thanks for sharing. Kind of sad because they probably did not know the true value of what they had. They could have lived a better life?? maybe.

I sometimes wonder the same of these Chargers we all find and the responses we always get "not for sale...I'm going to restore it" meanwhile we see them year after year rotting away in the elements.