I have a '50 Chevy five window pickup sitting in back of my shop with no engine in it. About 15 years ago, the guy that owns it towed it to my shop and wanted a price for restoring it.
I know him and his father, and there's no way I'd do any kind of work for either of them. You'd be lucky to get half the bill paid. So I set the price high enough so I knew he wouldn't go for it. Predictably, he said my price was too high and left with the pickup sitting in front of my shop. I pulled it around behind the shop and it's been there ever since. Even has a tree grown up through the engine compartment.
Several years ago, his mother saw it, and insisted it had an engine in it when they brought it over, which it certainly did not. Now the guy got in trouble with the law and got fired from his job, and I'm sure he has problems far beyond getting a pickup restored. Dang thing can sit there till it rots for all I care, but I'm sure someone would rake me over the coals for leaving a desirable pickup rust down.
What I'm saying, is when you see some of this old stuff just sitting, there's usually a story behind it that goes far beyond it simply sitting there.
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