<VV> Traitor in our midst - Board action requested

[Al Corelli]

What the heck is a "milk float"???



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From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Traitor in our midst - Board action requested


> > The problem that I hope would be brought to light is
> > that people who buy from the Corvair world and sell to
> > the Corvette world are making a bunch of bucks off the
> > Corvair people.
>
> That's right - but what's to stop Corvair people doing it as well? Lancia
> Appia tail lights also happen to fit 1950s Ferraris and Lancia Aurelia
> Spiders, and as Appias go for $5-10000 and the latter two for $2-300000,
> Appia tail lites are invariably $4-500 a pair if you can find them.
>
> And what do Appia people do if they find a pair? Sell them for $500!! It
> don't matter who it's to - it's market forces! I have so far only been on
> the wrong side of this equation (i.e. I had to buy a pair!) and I was
lucky
> enough to find a pair of NOS ones for $300. But if I found a cache of them
I
> sure as heck wouldn't offer them to the other Appia owners for $20! They
> would go straight on eBay for $500 a pair, no questions asked about what
the
> buyer owns.
>
> Likewise, I got a milk float speedometer at Beaulieu this year for $20.
This
> is a tough deal for milk float restorers, as the speedometers also happen
to
> have been used on Lotus 7s, and sell for $200 to 7 owners. But did I tell
> the milk float guy this? Nope! Do I feel bad about it? Nope! If I knew
this
> and owned a milk float, would I sell my surplus speedometers to milk float
> owners for $20? Also nope! In fact I would make a point of concealing from
> milk float owners the fact that I had a stock of their speedometers,
because
> I would be anxious to maximise my profits and sell them for $200 to Lotus
7
> owners.
>
> By the same token, now that I know what I know about Vair tele columns, if
I
> found a cache of NOS ones for $10 each (yeah, right!) I would put them
> straight on eBay with 'Corvette' as the keyword!
>
> As I said at the beginning - if a Vair person has a column and wants to
sell
> it for big bucks, then good for them. And if they sell one to a Corvette
> person for $20 without realising its true worth, isn't it just a case of
> 'caveat vendor', as ever? I have certainly been on both sides of mistakes
> like that in the past as well, but some you win and some you lose (and you
> certainly don't do it twice, once you have found out your mistake!).
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
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