What are your plans when ~~

[BILL WZOREK]

When the time comes when you can no longer drive your car.
what will you do with it ?

SHEBA will be going to My wife then one of the children >>>

[19Fordy]

If I am the last to "go", I am going to give them away to someone
who will appreciate and also be a good custodian of 2 cars: '40 Ford coupe
and a '51 Merc convertible.

[malpais]

Hope my son, now 30, will be interested enough to drive the PU.

He loves the VW thing we restored in his high school years........

[Barry-ct]

It will be up to my wife to sell my truck. My 2 son in laws are not old car people. One could care less and the other would hot rod it and I don't want that! He's into rice rockets. Ugh!

[V8COOPMAN]

Originally Posted by 19Fordy

If I am the last to "go", I am going to give them away to someone
who will appreciate and also be a good custodian of 2 cars: '40 Ford coupe
and a '51 Merc convertible.

I believe you know how much I APPRECIATE many aspects of your coupe, and I PROMISE I would take really good care of it for my duration......just sayin'! DD

[Joe Immler]

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My '41 Coupe goes to my son. I have willed it to him but will give it to him should the time come (God Forbid) that I can no longer drive.

[Charlie ny]

Bill,
Dammit man don't even think that way..........!!!!!!!
Our '41 1/2 ton is in our will , it'll go to our son in law.
Charlie ny

[Old Henry]

Hopefully our family tradition will continue. I now drive my dad around in the car he bought when I was 7 years old. Hopefully my youngest son, who helped me restore "Old Henry", will be willing and interested in doing the same as well as keep it on the road, which takes a ton of time and money I've found out.

[rockfla]

Let me be the first to say....the gratuity of any barner who wants a principled custodian of their vehicle, I'm 49 years old, hate hotrods, and will keep your car as you wish....anytime you wish. Let me know first!!!! I will just add them to my dads and appreciate them just the same. OH AND DRIVE IT like it should be!!!

Thank You.

[D. Jones]

My 45, 1/2 ton is going to our second daughter, she asked for it. I don't know who will get the 51, F-3 yet, probably the oldest son. If I get a 53 Vicky for the wife she can decide what to do with it, she just gave her Corvette to our youngest son so the Vicky most likely would go to him also.

[ford38v8]

If I can't drive it, nobody will drive it.
i've made arrangements to be cremated ...in my Ford.


Just kidding, I might do the chicken run like in Rebel Without a Cause!

[Talkwrench]

I don't even want to think about it..

[19Fordy]

V8: Ok. I'll remember that. After all we both HEARD about the secret.

[Binx]

My '41 pickup was given to me by my father. It wasn't a family hand-me-down or anything. He'd never had an antique vehicle before but I guess he knew it was a good deal and bought it. I puttered around with it to get it running when he was going to sell it for a profit. I think he noticed how much time I was studying up and spending time with it and decided to give it to me. I received it when I was 18-years-old for my high school graduation gift. I spent a long career in the Air Force bouncing around the world raising two boys who weren't familiar with the pickup since it was stored in my hometown. They grew up and are now on their separate ways and never interested in or familiar with my pickup. That's okay with me. It was never a part of their lives like it was mine. I now have my pickup in my garage in, well, a basket case state for now but everything is neatly boxed and labeled by category in one location. If that sudden moment comes, my wife knows The current price and where everything is.

Now I flip the coin. My dad in his later years had the desire and the means to restore both a '59 Plymouth Fury and a '57 Chrysler 300. He's gone now and my mom has asked me if I'd like to have them. To both I've declined. I don't have the personal connection, storage, or devotion to keep show cars.

Lonnie

[Bored&Stroked]

Originally Posted by Binx

My '41 pickup was given to me by my father. It wasn't a family hand-me-down or anything. He'd never had an antique vehicle before but I guess he knew it was a good deal and bought it. I puttered around with it to get it running when he was going to sell it for a profit. I think he noticed how much time I was studying up and spending time with it and decided to give it to me. I received it when I was 18-years-old for my high school graduation gift. I spent a long career in the Air Force bouncing around the world raising two boys who weren't familiar with the pickup since it was stored in my hometown. They grew up and are now on their separate ways and never interested in or familiar with my pickup. That's okay with me. It was never a part of their lives like it was mine. I now have my pickup in my garage in, well, a basket case state for now but everything is neatly boxed and labeled by category in one location. If that sudden moment comes, my wife knows The current price and where everything is.

Now I flip the coin. My dad in his later years had the desire and the means to restore both a '59 Plymouth Fury and a '57 Chrysler 300. He's gone now and my mom has asked me if I'd like to have them. To both I've declined. I don't have the personal connection, storage, or devotion to keep show cars.

Lonnie

Lonnie, you Sir are an honorable man!

PS: Ask your mom if she'd like to immediately adopt another SON (that would be me) . . . and I promise to take really good care of that 57 Chrysler - will drive her around all she wants!

[malpais]

Sure is a lot of wishful thinkin' here. Don't think anyones gonna really give any of us an old Ford.........

[alanwoodieman]

Binx, get the 41 out of the boxes and put it back together, it does not have to be perfect, and go for a ride. My sons are car guys, but into Camaro's, Corvette's, its ok with me but I would like one of them to have an interest in one of my flathead Fords. My grandson likes to ride around in the 41, 3/4 ton stake bed maybe he will want it when he gets a little older. He shifts the gears for me when we ride in it together. Will get him behind the wheel soon!!

[Sixseven]

If I pass before my wife and she sells my cars and tools for what she thinks I paid for them, someone will be getting a great deal. Make that an amazingly unbelievable deal.

[Drbrown]

Unlike many of you, I'm 76 and only back into flat heads in the last 1-1/2 year since I got my '47 .... although I had a couple in the late 50's. Regardless, my daughters down south not interested but my 26 year old son in Boston seems to be although he's not around much to get involved. He's a quick learner so I hope I'm around long enough to get him to get him "hooked" .... I just have to get his attention and time.

All this discussion prompts me to envision a flat head donation "pool" of some sort, someplace ..... a place where we can donate our cars to a non-profit type organization/collection and where interested persons can go to negotiate a reasonable purchase (to support the endeavor). Personally, if there was no future for my car within my family I would rather do that and leave this place with the hope that the flat head's will live-on.

Someone want to start a thread on that idea !!!!!! How about a Flat Head 2 yr Educational Institute, Library for Literature, Library for Loaner Specialty Tools, etc etc etc You guys could all be Department Heads and Professors !

[Binx]

Originally Posted by alanwoodieman

Binx, get the 41 out of the boxes and put it back together, it does not have to be perfect, and go for a ride. My sons are car guys, but into Camaro's, Corvette's, its ok with me but I would like one of them to have an interest in one of my flathead Fords. My grandson likes to ride around in the 41, 3/4 ton stake bed maybe he will want it when he gets a little older. He shifts the gears for me when we ride in it together. Will get him behind the wheel soon!!

I had my first grandchild born this past May and he'll help me finish putting it back together then we'll ride together. All by design. -- oh and the models, rockets, gliders and airplanes too. He needs to know those joys.

Lonnie