This subject represents a real dilema for me that I've been unable to solve. I've been a car nut forever and have collected cars since the 70's when cars were cheap. My first 63 Corvette SWC was scored for 28 hun. in a local trailer park in '75 and my wife at the time was mad. (wife and car are both long gone). Over the years I've basically collected stuff that I wanted as a teenager and couldn't afford, or stuff that street racing legends around here were made of. My 70 LS6 Chevelle was bought new by a guy I graduated high school with, and he wasn't even a car guy. He went to work right after graduation and I went to college. He could afford a new car and I struggled to keep a 57 Chevy running for daily transportation. Today I have the Chevelle, still with it's original drivetrain and he's dead. Life plays funny tricks.
Back to the topic, so for 35 years or so I've collected these cars, almost never selling one. Some have been nicer than others and some have spent all this time in boxes being totally disassembled or close to it. The point is, they've consumed a large part of my disposable income and time for most of my adult life, and the prospects of my two adult kids who care absolutely nothing about the hobby holding an auction of all my stuff and then blowing the money on whatever the latest electronic gizmos that are worth 5 cents on the dollar in a year leaves me stone cold. So what's a pack rat to do? I'd like for my 2 Fathom Blue LS6 cars (one El Camino and one Chevelle) to have an eternal life together. I feel the same about a matched pair of 69 Corvettes with engine combos making them an equally unique pair, but the kids aren't committing and the grandkids are too young to care. So what do we do? Try and find exactly the right father/son/grandson family and make them a contract of a deal at death they can't refuse, with some kind of caveat where they can't be sold, or just say screw it and let the heirs fight it out and sell em off?:sad::sad::sad:
So it will be her decision as to what happens to it.
