That makes much more sense.
It makes more sense compared to the original story, but why would someone build up a collection like that, and then just let them rot in storage? I could see collecting them as an investment, but then to let them all fall apart?
Especially since so many European cars from that era seem to rust so well.
I often see collections of rotting cars, both IRL and in the ‘Ran When Parked’ column in Classic Motorsports. I suspect the mentality is that people will buy an old car with the intention of ‘fixing it up’ or doing an actual restoration. But they don’t get around to it. Then they see another car that they just can’t pass up. Maybe it’s ‘rare’, or maybe they think they can use it for parts. Eventually they have more cars than they know what to do with. If the guy was an auto dealer in the '70s I suspect he got many of the cars on trade-in for much less than their actual value. Maybe he thought he could restore them and put them on his lot, but he never got round to it.
He could still make a packet selling them to people looking for a project that doesn’t require much work.
And as Tuckerfan steps out of a bar, more than a little tipsy, a bidding war breaks out between the ladies.
There are three here in my hometown (Adelaide), all in good nick if I remember rightly:
http://www.mgcars.org.uk/farina/register/mkiii.htm
Rust not so much of an issue here.
Yep. I very rarely saw rusted cars when i lived in the Mojave Desert. For a long time I saw MGs listed as ‘California cars’, California being kinder to classic metal. Nowadays I’m seeing more classic cars listed as ‘Arizona cars’.
There’s a thriving business here importing California MGs and converting them to RHD.
Never mind.