Auction stupidity

[Gold Digger]

Never go to an auction unless you actually want something. Yesterday I went to this estate auction that had a collection of about 20 old cars and trucks along with some house hold items and some construction equipment. Believe me, I don't need anything else at all but I thought it being close I would just go see how the T's and A's were selling now days. I keep my hands down the whole auction, BUT, there was this slick as a hound's tooth 69 Lincoln Mark 3 with 56,000 miles on it and it wouldn't start when they came to it to auction it off. Not much of a crowd had shown up and things were going cheep and they couldn't get a bid so they went to the next car and on and on. After the auction I asked if the Lincoln got sold and the auctioneer said make me an offer. I shot him a price so low I thought he would say get out of here but he says sold. So today my grandson and I go and haul it home and think what have I done. 46 years ago I would have died for this car but at 65 I'm too tired to work on these things. A model A can set like this for 34 years in storage and about all you got to do is file the points, clean the carb, and set a hot battery in her and most of the time off you go. Oh well they say you never get too old to learn. The next time there's an auction like this I'm going the other direction.