Three Audis at Daytona Beach U-Pull-It -- Old Audi's going awayain't the half of it

[Kent McLean]

Fred Munro wrote:
> This is happening all over. We had a nifty wrecker north of here that kept
> everything; he had cars from the 1920's on up scattered around acres of
> bush. I went back a couple years ago to get a '20s Dodge rim and it was all
> gone - crushed. I did find a rim on an old chassis they missed but there
> wasn't much left. He said the old parts weren't moving and he needed the
> cash from the scrap. 

Business is business.  How long should he pay taxes on the land
that the car is sitting on before someone wants a '20s Dodge rim?
If it's only a $1/year for that portion of the land, are you
willing to pay $75 for that rim (which means he breaks even)?
If not, should he wait another 50 years before someone asks for
a second rim?

I think it would be better to put the remains up on eBay or
a user-group classified rather than send it to the crusher.

For the record, I've been paying $160/month to store a 1956
Austin-Healey 100 that I hope to restore someday. Financially,
it would have been cheaper to crush it and buy another five
years later.  But I've owned it since 1974, and there are
emotions involved.

--
Kent