<VV> Greed WAS arrogance WAS tele column

[Jeffrey Williams]

"While I agree it is nice to have rare parts available to use on our cars we have no right to criticize those that are willing to pay for the parts they need"

Well said.  We Corvair parts "savers" need to pony up the dough if preserving our crossover parts is so important. 

Same goes for Impala, Chevelle, Camaro, Buick, Pontiac, Olds, and others that share our parts. 

I don't think these higher price buyers are all arrogant, many just have no respect for cheapness.

We restore some Corvair parts that sell to "other" car restorers every week. These same exact parts are rarely ever purchased by a Corvair owner. So as a business owner what should I do? Preserve the pile of Corvair parts so they can take up storage space (which cost money every month) in the hopes maybe a Corvair owner may buy one or two someday (if the price is right) or make them available on the open market where they will sell every week like clockwork?

We do save Corvairs and Corvair parts from the crusher every month but as time wears on the majority of the "stored" vairs out there are becoming so delapitated that the cost of restoring them far outweighs their potential worth. That's the real problem.




 

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From: "kenpepke at juno.com" <kenpepke at juno.com>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Sat, February 27, 2010 6:08:36 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Greed WAS arrogance WAS tele column




Assuming?  Not hardly.  I well understood you had not considered all of the possibilities but the fact is you and I both know more than one Corvair parts collector.  How are you planning on assuring those very rare parts DO NOT go to one of them?  It is too bad that the 'poor boy' attitude has held Corvair values to a minimum ... that it should stop a true Corvair collector from bidding for desired parts on the open market.  While I agree it is nice to have rare parts available to use on our cars we have no right to criticize those that are willing to pay for the parts they need. 
You have personally profited from one such person ... calling names might just put off that guy from giving someone else a break.
Ken P

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airvair at earthlink.net wrote:

You are assuming that a Corvair person would merely sit it on a shelf.
That's not my thoughts at all. The REAL question should be, "which is
worse, a Corvette guy buying that rare part and putting it on his car, or a
Corvair collector that would buy that same part to put it on his car?" THAT
is the crux of my arguement.

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> From: kenpepke at juno.com <kenpepke at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Greed WAS arrogance WAS tele column
>
> Still, which is worse; a Corvette guy buying that rare part and actually
putting it on his car or one of the Corvair parts collectors that would buy
that same part to put in their collection, never to be used or even seen
again?  To me, that is real greed and I, in the past, have refused to sell
a couple of somewhat rare parts to a part collector.
>
> Ken P  


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